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    SWAP YOUR GAS PEDAL FOR A PADDLE

    Dec 01, 2020 4 minutes

    Needing to recharge my batteries and disconnect from the reality of pandemic life, I returned to the Midwest (the place of my childhood) and also to Mother Nature. After driving from the Twin Cities through Duluth and along Lake Superior on Route 61, an “All-American Road” scenic byway, I left my road-trip rental car lakeside to spend five days immersed in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), exchanging my gas pedal for a canoe paddle.

    Liquid road trip—Boundary Waters

    Located in northern Minnesota and just miles from the Canadian border, the BWCAW is more than one million acres of wilderness dotted with countless pristine lakes. I,

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