The last time I was in Baudette there were no suburbs. The occasion was our annual "Company Fishing Trip" back in the 1970s.
Details of these annual trips are somewhat vague. I do know we fished from big in-board launches, caught our Walleye limits in an hour and had a shore lunch. Since the statute of limitations has long since expired here is a taste of how these company trips transpired.
Thursday:
10 hour bus ride to Baudette with free beer and card playing
Stumble out of the bus into the bar
Friday:
Stumble from the bar to the motel room (attached to the bar) after the bar closed (at 2:00AM)
Play cards and drink beer until near sun-up, then sleep soundly for a few hours
Up at 9:00 am for fishing (with beer) and shore lunch with beer (finished by 12-noon)
12:15 pm proceed to party
Saturday:
Stumble from the bar to the motel room (attached to the bar) after the bar closed (at 2:00AM)
Play cards and drink beer until near sun-up, then sleep soundly for a few hours
Up at 9:00 am for fishing (with beer) and shore lunch with beer (finished by 12-noon)
12:15 pm proceed to party
Sunday:
Up early for the trip home, bus leaves at 8:00am
Play cards and drink beer all the way home.
Monday:
Back to work for an extended recovery period……
Sounds like the old story of heading across the border when going walleye fishing on the lake or across the river -
"Drink Canada Dry!" I sure had a lot of fishing friends who attempted to do so.
As for suburbs, within 5 miles of Willie the Walleye are metropolitan areas like Williams and Roosevelt with their own zip codes. To me the suburbs are in between. It is also fun to stop at the dual-runway 'Baudette International Airport.' Even in a low two-seat airplane you can see a foreign country when still on the ground -- but only in the summer if the snow piles melt.
Willie the Walleye
