Author: Mark Haskell
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Lake Superior RR and Amnicon Falls
21 July 2022 Awoke to a pretty day at Chippewa Campground. We really enjoyed having a lakefront campsite. Though we heard loons and sandhill cranes overnight, we only spotted a family of mallards paddling by this morning. On the road at 0800, it wasn’t long before we paused for a construction delay. Sitting in traffic,…
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Chippewa Waterfront Campsite
20 July 2022 Today we left Madison Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota after three weeks bouncing around campgrounds in the Madison area. Lake Mendota County Park has a convenient dump station on a paved loop next to their restrooms and bath house. With our water full and waste tanks empty, we headed north towards Lake Superior.…
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West of Madison
08 July 2022 Our son’s car is in the shop and we aren’t optimistic that it will be coming out soon. A diagnosis is promised within a week, so we are going to explore nearby in case we need to return to the Madison, Wisconsin area to help him shop for a replacement vehicle. Having…
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Chicago Traffic & Illinois Trains
30 June 2022 Look who’s on the road ahead of us. Anyone with children or grandchildren will probably know this engine, even with a mask on. Today we’re running from Indiana Dunes National Park to Madison, Wisconsin with a stop at the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM). Google, Waze, Garmin, and Apple maps all recommended driving…
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Liberty, Winchester and Truma
Leaving the campground at Brookville Lake, we headed north on Route 27 through another pretty midwestern town; Liberty, Indiana. This stately courthouse has been standing here since 1891. As long time readers realize, we enjoy stopping to see town squares and county courthouses and Liberty is the county seat for Union County. The town has…
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Brookville – Biking or Ice Cream?
25 June, 2022 …begins a few relaxing days as we travel from West Virginia to Indiana with a stop in Cincinnatti to visit a long-time friend. About two hours after leaving Beckley’s Exhibition Coal Mine Campground, we were ready to stretch our legs. Beth found this boat launch in Nitro, West Virginia. Boat launches…
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