Today, the parental units and I went back to Hayward for the Lumberjack Show. I’d been looking foward to this all week and can say this is the one thing I actually wanted to do here in the Northwoods. I don’t know why I was so captivated with this. I suspect it tapped into that [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Timber Tramps
Posted in Adventures, Travel, tagged Fred Schees Lumberkack Show, Hayward, lumberjacks, Telemark, The Pavillion, Travel, Wisconsin on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Journey on the High Seas
Posted in Adventures, Travel, tagged Cable, Wisconsin, Telemark, Garden Lake, kayaking, paddling, The Pointe on August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I succumbed to the pressure and went kayaking with my father. After my first experience, I had reason for trepidation. And then it happened again when I took a kayaking lesson: I fell out of my boat. Spilled, humiliated into the frigid waters of some lake around Skokie. Even though I’ve kayaked a handful of [...]
Around Town
Posted in Travel, tagged Cable, Forest Lodge Library, Outdoors, Telemark, Travel, Wisconsin on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Apparently, today I was rather scandalously dressed for itty bitty foresty Cable. As I crossed the street to the Forest Lodge Library (founded in 1925, it’s the oldest log cabin library in Wisconsin) an 80 year-old woman said to me “You’re wearing a swimsuit.”
Taken aback, I muttered “Uh yes uh.” To think I was all prepared [...]
Mutant Musky
Posted in Travel, tagged Hayward, HookStone Winery, Musky, Travel, Wine, Wisconsin on August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A mutant fish has come to challenge Godzilla! Look how it bares it’s ugly teeth as it soars over the building!
This is Hayward. Home of a Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame and the Moccasin Bar and Wilderness Museum- where you can see, if your heart desires, the world world record musky- 67 1/2-pounds and 60 [...]
A Jaunt Up Mt. Telemark
Posted in Adventures, Travel, tagged Cable, Hiking, Nature, Telemark, Travel, Wisconsin on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I understood that nature and I will never be best friends, but, at times, we can get along.
Last night, I was finally ready to get on board with this outdoorsy, nature thing when I looked up into the night sky and saw the Milky Way. The Milky Way! It looked like a thin layer [...]
The Night of the Neverending Story. And Bayfield.
Posted in Travel, tagged Cable, Telemark, Travel, Wisconsin on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ha! Completely forget what I said about “relaxing” and “refreshing.”
I had a marvelous jacuzzi last night… got all pink-faced and noodley. Was sooooo ready to just melt into bed. And then. And then. The quiet. The silence. Once the TV was off there was absolutely no noise except the occasional creak of the building and [...]
Stranded in Pine Trees
Posted in Travel, tagged Cable, Resort, Telemark, Travel, Wisconsin on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Finally! After driving through the wilderness of Wisconsin, full of unincorporated towns with just a barn or two converted into a craft store and a bar that merrily blares the electronic Bud Light sign, the parental units and I made it to the metropolis of Cable, Wisconsin. Also unincorporated.
We’re clearly staying in an area that [...]
Cable, Wisconsin
Posted in Travel, tagged Cable, Travel, Wisconsin on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow I and the parental units drive to Cable, Wisconsin. We will travel up and up and deeper into lake country before snaking over to Wisconsin, plunging into the forests, land of tiny towns and two-lane highways and moose and black bears and birds and…nature. Cable, Wisconsin.
I think the town population is six, [...]
Don’t Pet the Puppy!
Posted in China, Musings, Travel, tagged China, rabies, Travel, vaccine on August 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I’m afraid of getting rabies. I’m afraid a cute, slobbery mutt is going to approach me and because I am a sucker for cute, slobbery mutts, I’ll reach out to pet it, but in gratitude it will clamp down on my hand, puncturing my only protection against the rabies. Because I’m in [...]
I Want to See Things
Posted in China, Musings, tagged China, Emily Haan, J. Maarten Troost, Lost on Planet China, No Hurry to Get Home, Olympics, Travel on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Madison’s all right, I guess, but no one place is good enough…I want to get around. I want to see things,” Emily Haan, world traveler and former New Yorker writer wrote in her collection of essays “No Hurry to Get Home.”
Right now, I so am sympathizing. Minnesota is all right. It’s a pretty state. If [...]
