Lileks in Full Vacation Mode

James Lileks is on a working vacation in Minnesota. (Aren't all vacations "working vacations?")

An excerpt:

After that debacle we staggered out of the coffee shop, laden and leaden, and headed for the marina. The only vehicle we could rent was a paddleboat, and I couldn’t say no. Me, I like an engine, two of them if possible. I don’t trust anything that depends on me for its locomotion. I may get bored. I may get tired. Then where are you? The middle of the lake. Then the gulls come. They go for the eyes first.