Adventure Trips

Yes, I’m back from my latest great adventure – a week-long, wilderness, canoe, camping, portaging, mosquito-fighting, fish-catching, bonding-making trip to northern Minnesota with my son and three teenage grandsons.   If you haven’t read my prior blog about this trip, see below.   Here’s what one of the teaching pastors at the mega-church I attend…

For the next two weeks I’ll be backwater canoeing, portaging, fishing, and wilderness camping with my son and three of my teenage grandsons.   It’s a “man vs. wild” kind of thing!   We’re headed 800 miles north to Ely, Minnesota, and the backwater canoe country (we call it ca-noe – get it?), and crossing…

So my wife was out of town last week and I felt this strong urge to do something I’d never done before. I shot a turkey for Thanksgiving.  Scared the hell out of the people in the frozen-food section.  It was awesome! Just kidding, of course. But as we consider all that we are thankful…