Escape Room
This section chronicles our family’s love of escape rooms, from cracking a record 23 rooms in 2025 (82 total since 2016) to quirky trip logs detailing each puzzle, travel stop and post‑game reflection. It’s an ever‑growing diary of teamwork, hints and shared victories.
- “Rock’n the 50s” Escape Room at Itasca Historical Society.
- Lunch at Spartan Deli.
- Shopping: Bender’s Shoe & Sport, Bender’s Gifts, MacRostie Art Center, and The Lake & Co Shop.
- Barely Reality VR
- Drove to Hibbing.
- Saw giant Iron Man and stopped for pictures.
- Eventually found Hull Rust Mine View after going to the wrong places.
- Dinner at Boomtown Brewing. Very good food!
- Drove back to Grand Rapids.
- 9:14a: Left 14 mins late for Montpelier, VT.
- Brunch at Three Penny Taproom.
- Check out Vermont State House.
- Escape Room at Greatest Caper.
- Afternoon coffee and chocolates at Rabble-Rouser.
- Drive back to St. Johnsbury.
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium for exhibits and two showings in the platerium.
- Dog Mountain very cool, the Chapel was moving. 😢
- Dog Mountain Levitt Amp Conert to see Mike Mains and The Branches. 🎶
- Dinner at Kingdom Taproom & Table.
We just barely beat the new Robot Rampage room at Trapped Puzzle Rooms in St. Paul. 59m 36s. Whew! It was a fun room! Room 38!
Grand Rapids & Hibbing Log
Weather: Cool. Mist and rain in the morning. Cool and mostly cloudy throughout the day.
We won the “Rock’n the 50s” Escape Room at Itasca Historical Society in 40 minutes! Room 36!
Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 9, Sunday
Weather: Still a bit rainy in the morning, but cleared up. Fairly warm in the afternoon. Evening turned out nice.
Jump to day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 of Vermont Road Trip.
We saved the Mona Lisa in 56m 16s at the Greatest Caper Escape Room in Montpelier. Austin, the owner, has created a great room and makes sure everyone has a great time. 👏 Room 35!
Nemesis Club: Evil Robots
For our final day in Arizona we decided add an Escape Room to the agenda. Tammy researched this and she wasn’t planning on doing one, but the Evil Robot room at the Nemesis Club seemed too good to pass up. She was totally right! 🤩
The Nemesis Club was the most well done escape room experience we have ever done. Everything was extremely well done, even the entrance and how they welcomed you was special. The room itself was so intricate and immersive that you really felt like you were there. The electronics were flawless. There were a lot of screens and videos and everything was exceptional. We also loved that the puzzles were not the same run of the mill digits to a lock but were more creative, yet solvable.
We solved the room with 31 seconds to spare! This is a “must do” experience! 👏 Room 34!
We did the Titanic Room at Escape Room Palm Springs today. They isolate everyone so it’s as safe as can be. It was a fun room, it not a bit easy. We finished in 44 min 29 sec and didn’t ask for any clues!
This frame they had on the wall made me chuckle. Room 33!
We attempted the “Incoming Transmission” room at Perplexium in Austin. It was a really unique puzzle room. A lot of fun, but proved too difficult for us today. 🔐
Tammy’s sisters and my brother-in-laws escaped Breakout - Operation: Casino in 45 minutes! 🙌💪🔓 Room 25!
Family friends joined us and we beat the Diagonal Alley room at Trapped North Loop. The room was exceptionally well done, highly recommended! 🧩 Room 24!
