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08/26/2026

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Give it a listen! What a great tribute to Dolly!

08/19/2026

✈️Great reminder to check those passports if you plan for family travel over the Holidays or Winter Break!

Back to school already? Those school holidays will be here before you know it. Before the school holiday rush, make sure your family is passport-ready.

For kids under 16:
📌Passports are valid for 5 years only.
📌Passports must be applied for in-person each time (no renewing by mail or online!).
📌Check out all the requirements here at travel.state.gov/passports.

08/19/2026

Christmas 🎄 + Disney 🏰 = PURE MAGIC!
Check out the itinerary that our partners at Story Book Travel Group are sharing! 🤩

08/15/2026

I think this one definitely belongs on every Minnesotan’s Upper Midwest must-see list! WOW, what a story!
Can you imagine crossing the Atlantic on that boat?! 😮

The Hjemkomst is a seventy-six foot Viking ship sitting in a climate-controlled hall in Moorhead, Minnesota, and it got there by crossing the North Atlantic. Not a replica that stayed on a trailer. An actual open wooden vessel that sailed from Duluth to Bergen, Norway in 1982 with a crew of twelve aboard.

Robert Asp built it. He was a junior high guidance counselor in Moorhead with Norwegian roots and no shipbuilding background. In 1971 he bought an old potato warehouse in Hawley and started work, shaping oak he had cut and milled himself, following the lines of the Gokstad ship excavated in Norway a century earlier. Friends and family helped. It took years. Neighbors drove past that warehouse for most of a decade wondering what exactly was happening in there.

He launched it on Lake Superior in 1980 and sailed it that summer. He was already sick by then. Leukemia took him that December, and the ship he named Hjemkomst, meaning homecoming, sat without the man who built it.

His children decided to finish what he started. In May 1982 the crew left Duluth, went through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence, and pushed out into open ocean. Somewhere in the North Atlantic the hull cracked along a plank seam. They patched it at sea and kept going. Six thousand miles later they came into Bergen harbor to a crowd on the docks, having sailed a homemade ship built in a Minnesota potato warehouse to the country their family left generations earlier.

The ship came home and now anchors the Hjemkomst Center on the Red River. The building is designed so you see the vessel all at once when you walk in, mast raised, hull curving up to the carved prow, close enough to read the grain in the oak. Displays around it carry the logbooks, the photographs and the story in the crew's own words.

Outside sits the Hopperstad Stave Church, a full-scale replica of a twelfth century Norwegian church, built by a Moorhead man named Guy Paulson in another act of stubborn devotion. Two enormous handmade objects, two ordinary men, one small city on the North Dakota border.

The thing people remember is not the woodworking. It is that a guidance counselor decided in 1971 that he was going to build a Viking ship, and that after he died his kids sailed it to Norway anyway.

08/14/2026

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08/08/2026

Let us know 👇where you've been, where you're going, what books you've been reading....

08/01/2026

We see lots of airports every year during our travels. We agree - MSP is the best!!

07/31/2026

🤠 Saddle up for an unforgettable adventure!
Did you know that while we specialize in international travel, we also book incredible tours right here in the good ol' US of A?
This Cowboy Country tour from Collette lets you experience the spirit of the American West with adventures like covered wagon rides, breathtaking scenery, western history, and plenty of cowboy charm. 🌄🐎

You don't have to cross an ocean to have an amazing vacation!
If this looks like your kind of adventure, give us a call or send us a message. We'd be happy to send you a brochure and help you start planning your next getaway!

🇺🇸 Sometimes the best adventures are closer to home.

07/29/2026

🚨 Only a few days left to vote in the Isanti-Chisago County Star Readers Choice Best Of ..... !

If you feel we've earned your vote, we'd truly appreciate it. Every vote means so much to our small, local business. ❤️
Thank you for being part of our journey!

Annual readers choice awards for Isanti and Chisago County's businesses, events, and more.