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Took a ferry across this bay from Kagoshima to Sakurajima, an active volcano. Circled Sakurajima on a rented bicycle.

Monday evening, now in Kagoshima, southern Japan. The bed is very welcome: I started out from Minneapolis, early Sunday morning.

I’m on an early morning flight to San Francisco, en route to Kagoshima, southern Japan.

In loco parentis, day 4. At MSP, riding a tram towards the terminal, about to reunite the nephews with their parents who had just landed.

In loco parentis, day 3. Off to school in the first snow of the season.

In loco parentis, day 2. The younger nephew was particularly ebullient when we met him after school. His flying backpack survived.

Nephew time, Mom’s away. We first used sharp knives to carve pumpkins. Then we cut up an old towel to make wicks to burn vegetable oil.

Walked to the highest point in Minneapolis: the foot of the “Witch’s Hat” water tower in Prospect Park.

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Admired children’s renditions of this bronze rabbit on a traffic signal control cabinet. Children climb on the rabbit, keeping it polished.

Posted Snapshots: Superior Hiking Trail 2017.

Nature strutted its stuff on a birch stump as we headed towards the end of our final Superior Hiking Trail walk for this year.

Walked past a beaver lodge in the middle of a pond of their own creation.

On our walk to breakfast at our current base: Bluefin Bay Resort on Lake Superior. Stoked for another day of hiking.

It was a day of contemplative trails, then wide-open vistas.

Vestiges of Fall, caught by Dwight, on our Superior Trail hike south of our base, Cascade Lodge.