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Blademaiden Gets All Up In Shawnee National Forest {Video}

February 2, 2017 By //  by Natalie the Blademaiden

Running two businesses, it is rare that the Beardsgaards get to actually GO anywhere. And they still didn’t.

This time it was just Blademaiden off on her first long-distance Scumbassador training run to southern Illinois, where there are lots of large, unpeopled stretches. And Shawnee National Forest. And Garden of the Gods. And a cabin in the woods. By herself. For two days. Come along on a very dorky adventure. There’s a hot tub.

 

And a whole video of the expedition at the bottom of this post. Read on!

First class of the trip at Hot Heads Salon in Marion, Illinois (pictured on the left), and the second class at Head Lines Hair Design in Salem, Illinois (because Blademaiden showed up super early, in the middle of a shop meeting, and would have felt like an asshole taking pictures.)

On the right is Hansen & Co. Barbershop in Champaign, Illinois, shop of old barber school friend Lee Hansen, which even after all these years we have not yet had occasion to visit. In this case, it was literally 5 minutes out of the way on the drive back north, how could we not say hello. If you need someone in central Illinois that does supremely good work, this is your place.

Especially if you like Dee Snider watching you pee.

After the trip down and a solid day of classes and driving, nature and a cabin in the woods brought Blademaiden to a supremely-needed little haven in the forest. And of that part, we have video.


Want to read more about the adventure? 
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Want to read more about the cabin? Click Here.
Want to go to there? Look down.
Garden of the Gods
Shawnee National Forest
Shawnee Forest Cabins

{This is not a sponsored post. When we go places we simply want to share the gems we find in the event a fellow traveler happens that way. But shoot, if anyone wants us to try out their lodging, we’re not necessarily against a bit o’sponsoring.}

Filed Under: Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, Channel Beardsgaard Tagged With: Behind the Scenes, Education, Evergreen Terrace, Pillar, Scumbassadors, The Life of Beardsgaard, Video

About Natalie the Blademaiden

Elfin pixie. Creative blunderbuss. Deep canon nerd. Fracking adorable. Also one half of the married pair of barber proprietors of Beardsgaard and River Peak Apothecary.

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