Iron Range vacation was great

[dreamshark]

We never did see Hibbing High School or swim in an ore pit, but otherwise everything went remarkably as planned, including the plan to leave the second half of the trip UNplanned. We spent most of two days on the beach at McCarthy Beach State Park, which is just as awesome a state park as I remembered. We successfully activated the backup plan for the day that it rained all day, finally getting a chance to see a tourist attraction I had been trying to get to for umpteen years. And the rest of the time we biked. The Mesabi Trail is spectacular! I intend to get back up there earlier next year, when it is still warm enough to swim in a pit lake, and see some more of it.

However, if vacations are supposed to leave you refreshed and invigorated, I guess it was a failure. Before we left town I had plans to accomplish all sorts of household projects when we got back, but instead I just fiddled around with online pictures, experimented with accessories for my new phone, started a document (with pictures!) to catalog my bike trips, and otherwise fiddled away the entire long weekend that was left over after the trip. I finally finished unpacking my suitcase today.

Since I have all these pictures I think I'll post them in a series of daily logs, thus allowing me to continue vacationing retroactively for the rest of the weekend. I'll be nice and put the details behind cuts. Not only that, I decided it was time to start keeping actual physical photo albums again and printed out some of my favorite pictures. I'm just going to put them in the same old crappy magnetic page albums I've always used, even though I now realize how bad they are for prints. The originals are digital anyway, so it really doesn't matter very much, does it?

Comments

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

The originals are digital anyway, so it really doesn't matter very much, does it?

Not if you've got backups.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! I look forward to your daily logs -- good idea.