Category: vacation
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flashback – The Pennine Way ’86
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flashback – Boundary Waters ’83
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flashback – a trip to the Boundary Waters
As a wee lad, I was in a semi-official Boy Scout troop. Our troop leaders, Dave Sabrowsky and Cliff Stern, were somehow confident enough in our abilities to take us on a trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area one year. I wish I could remember exactly which year — possibly 1978? I’m pretty jazzed Read.
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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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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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Hartman Creek State Park
I hung my hammock between two tall pines at Hartman Creek State Park, looking forward to a good night’s sleep and a view of the stars. Didn’t get either. Someone down the road had their radio going all night, so I drifted in and out of sleep to the tunes they shared with everyone else Read.
This Is Drivel 