{"id":1514,"date":"1996-08-21T02:09:49","date_gmt":"1996-08-21T02:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2025-08-25T00:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T00:42:48","slug":"dave-and-nancys-50th-at-the-gunflint-lodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"D&amp;N 50th, Gunflint lodge &amp; Silver Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a pro photographer come take group pictures. \u00a0These are my outtakes. Dave and Nancy, Paula and Jeremy, Tim, Eileen, and Madeline in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Madeline was about six months old. \u00a0We schlept 100 pounds of baby gear through the Minneapolis airport on a 99F day to our rental car, then drove north for 4-5 hours to the Gunflint lodge.<\/p>\n<p>I remember that Pops had paid for the Platinum meal plan at the lodge&#8217;s 4 star restaurant. \u00a0Giant breakfasts, &#8220;a little lunch&#8221; in our cabin, a five course meal every night. \u00a0There was little to be done towards burning away the 7,000 calories we were packing in every day. \u00a0 I gained 10 pounds. \u00a0Great time all the way around tho.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"gunflint\" href=\"http:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/1996\/Gunflint\/39046281_DdjhQV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1515\" src=\"http:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/gunflint-021-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"gunflint-021\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/gunflint-021-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/gunflint-021-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/gunflint-021.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We stopped in at Silver Bay on the way home to visit Uncle Ed. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a few random shots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/1996\/SilverBay-sf\/39046439_7RqrGF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1518\" src=\"http:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/1996\/08\/Img-108-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Img 108\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/1996\/08\/Img-108-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/1996\/08\/Img-108-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/1996\/08\/Img-108.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a pro photographer come take group pictures. \u00a0These are my outtakes. Dave and Nancy, Paula and Jeremy, Tim, Eileen, and Madeline in attendance. Madeline was about six months old. \u00a0We schlept 100 pounds of baby gear through the Minneapolis airport on a 99F day to our rental car, then drove north for 4-5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=1514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;D&amp;N 50th, Gunflint lodge &amp; Silver Bay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}