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NE Wisconsin Waterfalls
26 July 2022 TuesdayPublished 08 March 2023 A full day of waterfall hikes. 0810 47,745 Leave Ashland, WI 63° 0900 47,777 Copper Falls State Park The park is named after Copper Mining that took place here between 1840 and 1902. We set out on the Doughboy’s Trail. It came highly recommended for waterfalls and canyons.…
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Ore and Murals in Ashland
25 July 2022Posted 03 March 2023 We move east from Thompson’s Bay to Ashland. At 0700 the temp was only 56°, the coldest overnight, thus far, in July. By 0938 we were packed up and on the road. Half an hour later we had found a spot in Ashland. 1008 47,730 69° Kreher Park, site…
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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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Chicago Traffic & Illinois Trains
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…
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Three Months with the Truma Aventa
Truma Aventa Eco Air Conditioner Update 2025-7-27: Truma now offers a unit that includes heat in the same footprint. Here’s a comparison of the available Aventa units: Update 2025-2-14: The system continues to operate as it did during the test the only issue we’ve had was when birds decided to build a nest…
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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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