Category: play
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IAT Table Bluff segment – 10/08/25
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IAT Straight River Segment – 9/10/25 to 9/14/25
Three weeks ago, I spent five days with dozens of other volunteers helping cut a new trail through the woods near Luck, Wisconsin, for the Ice Age Trail Alliance. This was my first IATA trail-building event. I’ve been walking the Ice Age Trail for a couple years. The trail stretches around what had been the Read.
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IAT Indian Lake segment – 09/28/2025
It was such a beautiful day today, I had to get out for a walk, and I wanted to walk a trail I hadn’t visited before, so I drove north and west to check out the Indian Lake segment of the Ice Age Trail. I didn’t walk the full length of the segment so I’ll Read.
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fallen
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dumb and dumber
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Campout Plan B
I was lucky enough to spend two days with some old friends from high school. Roy is an old hiking buddy from way back. We’ve been to the Porcupine Mountains and to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. I’ve seen him two or three times since I returned to Wisconsin, most recently about a year ago Read.
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train nerds
Wednesday was a rainy day, so we spent the day mostly indoors at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay. Unfortunately for us, we could get a close look at only a very few of the locomotives and railroad cars they have in their collection because they’re just now putting the finishing touches on a Read.
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wading
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to paddle or not to paddle
Events did not play out according to plan this week. I had hoped to meet up with several friends from high school for a campout in the north woods but the weather changed from iffy to rainy, so we made other plans that didn’t include being outside in the rain. However, my kayak was already Read.
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Game Night
Saturday night is game night here at Our Humble O’Bode. Number Two Son typically arrives in the evening, we eat dinner together, and then we set up a game of Spirit Island and play into the night. It’s a game that takes at least two or three hours from start to finish, although sometimes we’re Read.
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