Category: Camping

  • Lake Superior RR and Amnicon Falls

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    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,…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Holiday Greetings

     Couldn’t resist using this Great Egret balanced on the top of a Norfolk Pine. We watched him land there while visiting mom in her Florida condo.    Our little camper van has been perfect for travel during the pandemic.  Starting with a nice June visit with the kids in Wisconsin, we continued north to Lake…

  • Madison Area Campgrounds

    If you are visiting the capitol of Wisconsin, you don’t have to stay in a hotel.  Now that our son, his wife, and two dogs live in the area, we have been trying out the nearby campgrounds. In today’s post we share three of them along with a few things to do in the area.…

  • Chicago Traffic & Illinois Trains

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    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 through Chicago using…