Mike Christopherson
Come and explore the great outdoors.in Crookston, Minnesota?
I chose to pose that opening sentence as a question because our little city probably doesn’t make anyone’s top 10 list of outdoor destinations. There are no mountains and there’s no beach. There are no tourist-trap, majestic destinations, like the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls. We have a river, but it’s under-utilized and under-appreciated.
But when one adds a puppy to the family, a high-octane dog that also happens to embrace frigid cold and snow, and one takes that puppy on multiple walks, from early in the morning to the dark of night, one sees Crookston in a different light, or from a different perspective. It’s almost like my wife and I are viewing our town through a different lens, or maybe we’re just seeing, noticing and taking a moment or two to appreciate aspects of our town we barely even noticed before, if we knew they existed at all.