Best of the 2020 Pandemic Road Trip

 Best of the 2020 Pandemic Road Trip

We really weren’t sure if taking a long road trip during the pandemic was a good idea. We reasoned we could be careful… wear our masks and social distance. We’d avoid crowds of people as much as possible. We’d be in the great outdoors for much of the time… biking, hiking and camping. We were pandemic-weary like most folks and needed a break from the tedium of being home. After all, we’re nomads at heart and we need to be on the move.

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On the Route of the Hiawatha

 On the Route of the Hiawatha

When we learned about the Route of the Hiawatha, we were reminded of Longfellow’s famous poem, The Song of Hiawatha. We figured since we’d just been on the Trail of the Coeur D’Alenes, named after a Native American tribe, that the Route of the Hiawatha was named similarly. Au contraire, mes amis! It’s named after a train.

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