Pictures of Up North That Will Make You Want to Move

Happy Friday, y’all! I’m gonna cut to the chase. It’s 10:20 pm on Thursday when I’m writing this post. I’ve been in the car for 10 hours. I’m spent. So for that simple reason, I’m going off topic for today’s Friday Five 2.0 — my brain just can’t compute. (Case in point, I just had to ask my non-grammar-loving husband if today was “todays” or “today’s.” Yeah, I’m tired.) But I’m up north and that makes me happy. 🙂

Brilliant. So since I’m going off topic and totally sleep deprived, I shall show you a few pictures of my trip so far. Spoiler alert: turns out I really missed it up here and now I want to move up north. Enjoy!

Pictures of Up North That Will Make You Want to Move

Oh hai, Wisconsin!

Village Scoop!

Our home away from home. Ironic it’s the “Erie” cabin since we live on Lake Erie.

Our view. <3

Sunset + glass of wine = perfection

Perfect sunset.

“Up North is a certain way the wind feels on your face and the way an old wool shirt feels on your back. It’s the peace that comes over you when you sit down to read one of your old trip journals, or the anticipation that bubbles inside when you start sorting through your tackle box in the early spring.

Up north is the smell of the Duluth pack hanging in your basement and the sound of pots clinking across the lake. It’s a raindrop clinging to a pine needle and the dancing light of a campfire on the faces of friends.

Up north is a lone set of cross-country ski tracks across a wilderness lake and wood smoke rising from a cabin chimney. It’s bunchberries in June, blueberries in July and wild rice in September.

Each of us has an up north. It’s a time and place far from the here and now. It’s a map on the wall, a dream in the making, a tugging at one’s soul. For those who feel the tug, who make the dream happen, who put the map in the packsack and go, the world is never quite the same again.

We have been Up North. And part of us always will be.”

-Sam Cook, “Up North”

'We have been Up North. And part of us always will be.' #gmas17 #upnorth

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And that, my friends, is the north woods in a nutshell. It smells like camp outside my door and looks just as beautiful as I remember it.

Don’t forget to link up with the ladies of Fairytales and Fitness and myself for the Friday Five 2.0! Have an awesome weekend and I’ll catch you on the flip side.

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What’s your “place” that calls your name?

Have you ever been to the north woods?

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