Since 2013, I’ve owned a little, off-grid wilderness cabin in Superior National Forest, smack-dab in the middle of Minnesota’s Arrowhead, but seldom stayed more than a few nights there. I used to fantasize about spending entire summers kayaking or recording the succession of flower blooms in my phenology journal. It was the stuff of retirement dreams, which was a decade or more away.
That is, until 2020, when everything changed as Minnesota locked down under stay-at-home
