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This Love’s Truck Stop has its own RV park. Huh. 🏷️26.07A

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Found a new favorite brewery in New Mexico 🍻

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Auto-generated description: A smiling man wearing glasses and a gray shirt is sitting in the driver's seat of a vehicle with a sleeping bag and other gear in the back. Auto-generated description: A car trunk is set up with packed storage bags, a portable refrigerator, and a sleeping bag, indicating preparation for camping or travel. Hitting the road on my first camping roadtrip with our new Grand Highlander. It’s also our first trip with our new electric cooler and battery setup. Let’s see how it all goes on the road. 🏷️26.07A
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We’re en route home after our 3 weeks in Norway. But I won’t be home for long—I hit the road this weekend to make my way up to Isle Royale National Park.

Jen will be joining me in Milwaukee and we’ll have a couple days on the island with friends. Afterwards, we’ll hit a few more park units, dip into Canada a bit, and probably colored a few more counties. I’m also threatening to bring Jen to a twine ball.

I’ll drop her off in MSP to fly home from and will make my way back to PHX via the Dakotas and Wyoming (because why not?). It’ll be our first camping road trip with the new Grand Highlander and our new electric cooler setup.

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I haven’t posted anything here, but we’ve been exploring Norway for 3 weeks.

Well, tonight we found ourselves joining several thousand new friends marching to the royal palace to wake up the king and celebrate Norway’s World Cup win with some synchronized rowing and singing songs with unknown words.

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Added some premium nanoceramic IR tint (LLumar FormulaOne Stratos) to my new Grand Highlander. It should keep things much cooler than the generic tint during the hot Phoenix summer.

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Our favorite meal of the trip was a stop at Burger Bench in downtown Escondido. Great burger, great craft beer selection, great atmosphere. Jen said her grilled cheese was the among the best she’s ever had. Highly recommend. 🏷️26.06A

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It didn’t take too long to hit 1000 miles on the new Grand Highlander—it’s day eleven. 😂

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Angles 🏷️26.06A

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This place had (new) shag carpeting tacked to the wall. 🏷️26.06A

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Green Cheek Beer 🏷️26.06A

A gray building features a large glass door and a sign for Green Cheek Beer Co. under bright sunlight, with designated accessible parking spaces nearby.

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This rug really ties the whole room together. 🏷️26.06A

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First big drive with Mac! 🏷️26.06A

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Did some minor surgery to our new Grand Highlander to add a custom phone mount. It was both easy and terrifying to do.

A person is installing or removing a car's dashboard display and control panel.A magnetic phone holder is attached to the dashboard of a car near the control panel.

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I posted a hastily-shot video of the emergency gear I kept in the spare tire area of my Subaru Outback, in case it’s helpful for anyone else. I didn’t think to record the other things that we kept stashed around the vehicle but maybe I’ll do that once we get the Grand Highlander dialed in.

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Straight outta Monty Python 🏷️26.05A

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Watch out for Frank, he’s a bit of an ass. 🏷️26.05A

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We made it to Grinnell, but missed out on JB’s gravesite, as the cemetery was closed. But we did find the memorial plaque near his old home. 🏷️26.05A

A commemorative plaque on a stone is dedicated to Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, the founder of the city, placed in 1916 by the D.A.R.

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Merchants National Bank 🏷️26.05A

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We found Radar from MASH in Ottumwa. 🏷️26.05A