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I love going up to Duluth in the summertime it is the perfect escape from this city and the stress of my everyday life. I have been escaping to Duluth for a bunch of years now, maybe 6 or 7 and am always glad I went after wards. Coming home rested and relaxed and ready to get back to work.

Duluth is situated on the very western most tip of Lake Superiors blue waters. There in Duluth I find it really easy to reconnect with nature and unwind. The city is full of parks and open spaces for walking or running which I take advantage of every morning as I leave my Duluth hotels to begin my day and being located along the lake makes for an abundance of wildlife there.

One morning while I am there I like to rise early, before sunrise and take a drive up along the scenic North Drive to a look out and watch the sunrise over Lake Superior. After the sun rises I like to spend the rest of the morning exploring the beaches along the lake and if it is warm enough go for a swim. Sometime in the afternoon I like to head up to Hawk Ridge and watch the birds in the late afternoon as they prepare to roost for the night. In the evening I would go have an enormously delicious dinner at a restaurant on the waterfront.

On another day I’ll spend in the Great Lakes Aquarium. The complex is huge and house different freshwater displays depicting some of the various habitats around Lake Superior. The aquarium is a great place to see these enormous fish that like in the Great Lakes and I always have fun watching the kids in the aquarium when they notice these monster sized fish.

There were two things I had not done until my last visit to Duluth, the Sculpture Walk or visit the historic Railroad Depot. The Sculpture Walk is a park along the shore of Lake Superior where a number of modern sculptures have been installed. The Railroad Depot is an old historic railroad station converted into a museum dedicated to the railroads and railroad history in and around the Great Lakes region.