A new year of adventures!

Our 2019 adventures are soon to begin!

We have been talking, planning, and dreaming of this day for many years and the time has come for our first trip that doesn't require a firm start day or end day! 

No company telling us we have a limited amount of days. 

This first trip will be an interesting trip lasting around 8 weeks, we have a few destinations in mind but mostly we will see where the good weather takes us!
 We started our adventure by going north with our kids and grand kids.
This is year #5 for this annual family trip😎

Fun time snowshoeing on the lake for the first time, Jan was a little nervous! The ice was pretty thick and there were quite a few ice fisherman out further on the lake!

Then came day two! Those are our snowshoe tracks from the day before and that crack was not there😰😱😲😵
 The ice is 12-18" thick, It was close to -20 degrees when this crack appeared, as it warmed up over the next couple days the ice was making lots of noise!

 Always good to witness another sunrise😎 

Jan found a bump in the snow😍No broken hip this time!

Juniper #3grandchild- so much fun and likes to make everybody feel good😍 

Helen#2 grandchild and Boone #4

 Juni and Boone playing with a piece of Lake Superior that their dad brought in for them.

 When it is -15F outside 110F feels pretty good!

Ninja Nora #1 grandchild - Quite an adventurer!

Flynn #5 grandchild, always ready with a smile😇

It was a busy day😍

Ellie #1 Daughter and Isaac #1 Son in law

Ben #1 Son -20 on the lake that day, it was hard walking into the wind!

Birthday and game time!

No donuts today😞

I finally found some ice clear enough to see through, I didn't locate any sunken treasures!
It is a little unnerving to be so clear!

Jan getting the perfect picture!

We stayed in this campsite in Grand Marais, Mn just a few months ago and I don't remember all this white stuff? It is one of our favorite sites in the campground and nice to see it is available, to bad
we left the Airstream at home.
Our plan is to be back here in July😎

Ice, Snow and very cold temps this week- next week sun, sand and much warmer

somewhere south. We will see where the road takes us😎

A New Year, A New Business, A new Plan

Some big changes happened in 2018!

We gained another grandson(Flynn) bringing the total so far to 5- we feel very blessed😍

Flynn Arthur Bakken

We spent about 45 days in the Airstream and Traveled about 6000 miles.

 Left a 31 year career and started my own business.

 I lost a lot of headaches when I left my old job back in September but also lost contact with a lot of good customers and friends. With starting the new business it has been very good to reconnect with many of those!

My goal or mission statement is to help people with whatever I can, if it is changing a bad outlet

replacing an old furnace or ac unit or if it's just a question. I like fixing things and helping out.

This was the first job of 2019, a new furnace install, they said they would wait till January 2nd

but it felt good doing it on the 1st day of a new year!

Happy New Year!

We all have a limited time and a limited number of days, I feel very fortunate to have this new opportunity! My goal is to be 25% retired and 75% handyman, furnace/ac man.

I kind like hanging out with these guys and hope to have a little more time for it now!

It's always good to see another sunrise and another sunset😎

Enjoy and be thankful for every one you get.

 After I finished installing the furnace today Jan and I 

Snuck in a quick hike to Willow River State Park, with the temps topping out at 8 degrees today

the falls were starting to freeze over!

Hope to see you down the road, keep on adventuring!