Moving on to North Dakota (Teddy Roosevelt) and Canada

     Today (Thursday, August 4th) is our last day in Duluth, Minnesota - we have really enjoyed this northern city on Lake Superior!  This afternoon, after Barbara finishes painting (she started at 9 a.m.) we take a guided boat tour down the St. Louis River.  Last night we went to the new Woody Allen movie "Paris at Midnight" and loved it (it is hard to be surprised anymore with so many movies and television programs but Woody does it again!) and highly recommend it to all our family & friends! 

   The movie house in downtown Duluth had a big-city restaurant and bar on the top floor and we were permitted to take our beers into the theater with our popcorn!  A first for either of us.
   This next photo is of a sailboat going under the aerial bridge in downtown Duluth, which is still a major shipping port with huge boats coming and going daily, carrying ore destined for steel plants.

The photo that follows is the 1938 iron ore ship William A. Irwin which worked for 40 years until the late 70's, built and owned by U.S. Steel in it's heyday years.  It is now an outstanding museum and we took a guided tour that taught us how important Duluth and the shipping industry was to the area and our country.
 
     We now get ready for North Dakota and Canada (Banff National Park, a unique mountain community located in Canada's first National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site) before coming back into the U.S. to visit Glacier National Park (Montana, on the Canadian border), the Grand Tetons (and Jackson Hole), and Yellowstone National Park before winding our way to Salt Lake City.