Red Wing, MN

Hello everyone!  I apologize for the delay between posts, I have missed posting greatly, but like it often can, life got in the way!  There just has been too much to do in early August and then last Friday - Sunday we were in Red Wing, Minnesota.  We went out there with Tim's Mom for the 150th Anniversary of the church/school she used to teach at.  My Mom, bless her heart, came to our home and watched our three dogs for the weekend.  

Red Wing, MN is a historic town, best known for Red Wing Pottery and Red Wing shoes (that's a lot of things to be famous for this size of town!).  As we normally do, we found a vacation rental home.  We very much enjoy staying at vacation homes over hotels.  First, it's much easier to do with dogs (which we didn't bring this time) but also it tends to be more relaxing, homey, and sometimes more cost effective since you can buy grocery rather than eat out all the time like you might have to if you stay at a hotel.  There are countless benefits, but my favorite is being in a home rather than a large, noisy hotel.

The vacation home was in a historic village called Frontenac,  about 10 miles south of Red Wing.  Frontenac has all gravel roads,

 historic homes, and is on the high bluffs overlooking Lake Pepin (part of the Mississippi River).  Some of the homes closer to the bluff have been there since the 1800's.  One had an amazing old stone fence around the property.  On the first night we stayed home to have dinner.   We also discovered there were some bicycles in the small shed outside.  There were 2 adult bikes and 2 larger kid bikes.  Since we were 3 adults, we faced a bit of a

 predicament.  It didn't take long to determine that Tim's Mom would be on the kid bike!  Since this was a fairly odd site to see, I was laughing so hard!  After we all tested out our bikes, we it the road and found our way around a portion of the town.  Since you wouldn't drive through the town to get anywhere, there wasn't any traffic except for a golf cart.  We made our way to the bluff where we discovered a beautiful view.  We viewed Lake Pepin from the bluff, looking all the way across to the Wisconsin bluff across the way.  It was a beautiful sight.  It was the first of many beautiful sights we had that weekend.  On Saturday, we did the best exploring...the off-the-beaten-path type.  I'll share more about that next post. Above is a picture from the bluff.  Here is a photo of the living room of our vacation rental.  So comfy! Enjoy!  To be Continued. -L