52 Adventures

Exactly one year ago, my modern lumberjack and I pulled the "Bucknuckles Sconi Loop" random adventure out of a hat and we accidentally discovered the secret to happiness. It happened by chance, after a particularly long bout of cabin fever, when I was bouncing off the walls of our small stucco house, and said, "I need to DO something. Let's go on an adventure!"

So we pulled up a map and focused on options within a 3 hour drive or less, and narrowed it down to a few possibilities, to which I assigned adventurous sounding nicknames to such as: "Shake&bAkeley", "DuluthDayTripper" and the now infamous "Bucknuckles Sconi Loop", which was the destination selected at random from a ball cap. The target location, the Bucknuckles bar in Wisconsin, made the list of possibilities based on its funny name, and location in river bluff country.

It was a fantastic day, full of adventure: along the way we stopped at Pizza Luce for breakfast, saw the worlds biggest shoe in Redwing, viewed a bald eagle soaring above the Mississippi River, and enjoyed a fabulous burger at a bar full of character, enjoying scenic vistas along the way. And to think, it was all due to a little boredom, a crazy whim, and a spirit of adventure.