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Every August, the heat here ceases to be punishing heat and becomes cruelly disciplined heat. That is our signal to escape - we flee Kansas by driving straight through an Iowa haze, further north by the hour, looking for a lake. When we finally stop in Duluth, Minnesota, we cross a bridge that [...]

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For the past four summers, we’ve escaped the punishing Kansas heat of August by driving up to the breezy, blissful North Shore of Minnesota’s scenic Highway 61. If you, too, carefully parcel out your vacation time around work, school, and kid’s activities, you know how rare it is to deliberately return to the same place [...]

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