Posted October 8, 2023: Well, I seem to be a bit short of international travel for 2023. Usually the South Dakota/North Dakota/Minnesota road trip wouldn’t count but fortunately for me, cousins Terri and Brian have a fishing cabin up in the Angle. That would be the Northwest Angle, a funny little piece of Minnesota sticking up into Canada. It is a pene-exclave, meaning “a part of the territory of one country that can be conveniently approached—in particular, by wheeled traffic—only through the territory of another country” for those of you who have always wanted to know.

It is beautiful. Both the place and the cabin. Terri and Brian have designed and furnished a remarkably spacious and lovely home for the whole family, whenever possible, to stay all at once. Terri has managed something not easy, to furnish the whole thing thematically: fishing downstairs; bears upstairs that doesn’t ever become too cute, or too cluttered. It’s perfect with some really great art pieces.

And we even went walleye fishing. Well I napped and took pictures and Terri and Brian caught fish—beautiful beautiful walleye, which Brian fried that very evening. They honestly are the finest of all of the world’s fish…just ask anyone who cabins up in the Angle to spend the year fishing: summer in the boat—winter in the heated fish house, probably with a tv and maybe pantry and bar?