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Nanci Olesen's essay describes her experience on August 1, 2007, arriving home from a family canoe trip to the bridge collapse on I-35 in Minneapolis. Olesen's family chose to stop and eat dinner before going on over the river and home... and that made all the difference.
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?Let?s just stop for dinner,? I begged from the back seat.
Our son was driving?we were headed home from our family canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Wilderness. We had dropped off one of our daughters at camp and now we needed to get back to the cities.
We had a great trip. We were still getting used to pavement, cars, trucks zooming by us and superstores on the horizon. We were relieved to be in clean clothes with washed hair, but reluctant to depart from the tall pines and loon calls we had known so recently.
We had our typical controversy over where to eat. We always want the ma and pa restaurant? but we couldn?t find one. Should it be A&W or Subway? Weirdly, we did both? A&W for three of us and Subway for one? agreeing that the food we?d had over the campfire had been much better?
A hard rain slowed us down as we crawled between our two fast food choices. FINALLY we...
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