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Hazelwood, MO – We arrived in Hazelwood to visit GA’s sister Jayne and her fiancé Bill.  As an added bonus, our visit coincided with 🎜 the total eclipse of the sun 🎝.  (I didn’t like Carley Simon then and I still don’t)  As usual, there was plenty to eat and drink and the visit was great.  Among our activities, we saw Dunkirk at the movies, went to a pistol range to shoot, and visited a winery with a spectacular view.  But of course, the highlight was the eclipse.  Bill and Jane gave us t-shirts to wear and ISO certified glasses.  We made a playlist of songs that had any reference to the sun or the moon.  Of course we had to have a special menu which consisted of Sun Chips, Moon Pies, Tequila Sunrises made with Sunny D, and Oreo Mega Stuff cookies which you could squeeze the stuff out to make a corona around the cookie.  We were going to have eggs ‘sunny side up’ but we didn’t want to ruin ...

HERE AND THERE  Since we left Temperance River, we spent one night in Duluth right on the harbor.  It was within easy walking distance to the Lake Walk where we had a nice Italian dinner.  From there we stopped in to see our next door neighbors from Florida, Ken and Diane.  Again, we were treated like royalty, met many of their friends and enjoyed the company and the area.  They took us on a ride to Stillwater, a quaint town that had a new bridge.  Coincidently, we heard the dedication of the bridge on the radio which didn’t mean anything to us at the time but we actually got to drive across when we left.  We then made our report to Ken that it was safe to cross and wasn’t about to collapse.  Our next stop was at the Ho Chunk Casino at the Wisconsin Dells.  We did some sightseeing there but not as much as we originally planned.  And of course, we tried our hand in the casino but we may as well just thrown our money off the bridge in S...

Temperance River State Park – This park is about 90 miles north of Duluth.  It was a very scenic drive along Lake Superior.  On the way we stopped at Knife River at Russ Kendall’s Smoked Fish store.  We bought some smoked salmon and smoked lake trout.  We also bought some of his smoked sausage.  It was all very good. The State Park was hilly and very wooded.  There were many trails, mostly for hiking.  The Temperance River flows from way up the mountain and cuts a beautiful gorge as it rushes to Lake Superior.  There is an upper and lower falls.  We did the hike and it was quite breathtaking. Well worth the trip. See Ya Out There