Duluth, MN

"I can't tell the difference between negative 5 and negative 26." My brother told me that one morning. To help you illustrate the absurd between the first and second sentence, let me remind you that I'm brown; so naturally, my brother is brown. And we fellow brown bears prefer balmy winter temperatures (well, most of us). Then arre yaar, WHAT is my brother doing in -26°F temps?! Is he carbon dating ice cores in a Nordic country? Is he measuring polar ice caps? Is he tapping for oil in the polar north? Is he doing something scientific in some arctic or antarctic region of the world because most brown people do something scientific? Nope. He lives in Duluth, MN. And LOVES it.

But because I'm a vanilla brown person, I went to went visit him in July. When the sky was as clear as Lake Superior.