Minnesota 2011

Having some vacation time to burn up, as well as plenty of timeshare points to use, can be great motivation for taking off for a week. I decided to stay reasonably close to home and went to a place called Breezy Point, which is a resort community located on Pelican Lake north of Brainerd, Minnesota. (From home, it was a little less than eight hours and a little more than 400 miles of driving.) While I was staying there, I had a chance to catch up on my fiction reading (John Barnes's Daybreak Zero and Robert Sawyer's WWW: Wonder), do some light hiking, relax in my unit's hot tub, visit a new Minnesota brewery, and even take a very short and boring trip into Canada.