Thank you ... excellent summary of where things stand there in Minnesota. I won’t ask where you work, but I’ll tell you that I love traveling out there when I can! I’ve canoed the Boundary Waters in the past, and I crossed the border at International Falls on my last trip back from northern Ontario in 2014.
I try to go to the BWCA every year with a college friend of mine and some of his friends from church. I’m now in the SW part of the state right on the remains of the original Yellowstone Trail - but I lived 17 years in the north metro before finally having enough and moving out to the country (an odd decision to some seeing that I’m a city administrator by trade.)