North with Doc: Getting There

We were into the sixth hour of our annual drive north. We started in Des Moines at the crack of dawn, and without complications we would arrive at our Sioux Lookout hotel before dark.

I was using a tattered mesh scrubber with a flip side squeegee to smear insect goo around the van’s windshield.

“That really works well,” the policeman said, noisily sipping a Big Gulp as I tried to improve our visibility.

“You could do a better job with a paint roller,” the banker said.

“Your comments help a lot, guys,” I said.

The Minnesota insects were harder to remove than price sticker glue off a Christmas candle...

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