Joe

Blogs I follow

About me

Gender Male
Industry Museums or Libraries
Occupation Historian
Location Bloomington, MN, United States
Introduction A Minnesota Hiking Blog. Although I spend my weekdays working in museums, I spend my weekends traveling around Minnesota hiking, camping, and photographing. Follow my Great Minnesota Road Trip though the state parks and various pit stops along the way.
Interests Reading, art, movies, writing, history, traveling, pondering, walking, games, anthropology, spulunking, indigenous cultures, rain, Bloomington, botanical gardens, road trips, narwhals, railroads, corn fields, historic subway stations, ancient trees, winter, theology, graveyards, thinking, adventure, musk oxen, igloos, deconstuctivist architecture, contentment, thunder, Africa, mukluks, four leaf clovers, geography, quilts, water, Appalachian subculture, french toast, shepherding, lichen, Gypsies, St. Basil's, Gehry, bodies of salt water, sanuks, conspiracy, leaving my comfort zone, chewing on things, crossword puzzles, dreaming, smooth rocks, Warhol, James J. Hill, green, Sami, waterfalls, ships in bottles, kayaks, lake shores (especially that of Superior's north shore), curiosities, dead pine needles, ceder boxes, magnets, glaciers, faith, wilderness, pipes, history, the north, folk music, wildlife, mushrooms, Beethoven, Yosemite, inukshuks, apple cinnamon cheerios, American West folklore, impressionism, gnomes, the smells I associate with different seasons, Minnehaha Falls, independent films, photography, eating, massive cottonwood trees, looking at artistic pictures, troll houses, annotating, rivers, snow, singing, learning, living, soaring, music, piano, talking, listening, cynisim, and careless joy