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A DC reporter finds an awful lot to like in rural Minnesota:

The high point of the tour for me was a kayak trip down Red Lake River, which meanders through the county before meeting with Clearwater River in Red Lake Falls and eventually emptying into the Red River along the Minnesota-North Dakota border.

The river was a ribbon of tranquility slicing through the green-gold late August landscape. Broad and flat, but with just enough elevation drop to keep things interesting for this novice kayaker, the river carried a group of us smoothly through the pylons of a defunct railroad trestle and downstream toward sandy bluffs that rose 50 or so feet above the banks.

ADDED:

“I’m looking out my back window here,” (Red Lake County official Chuck) Simpson continued while talking on the phone Wednesday. “I’ve got a doe and two fawns eating out there right now. Is this ugly? I’ve got hummingbirds flying around the cotton pickin’ place!”