Hillery and I are watching the sunset at our final night on our Rock Island camping trip, long after the day trippers already caught the last Karfi ferry trip off the island. Our boys are playing on the rocks while the sun is passing down below the horizon on this absolutely gorgeous evening. We stayed [...]
Hillery is watching a 12 foot tall bon fire at the Fyr Ball Festival in Ephraim, Wisconsin, in the northern part of Door County. There were eight or so fires lit around the bay which signify celebrating the end of the cold season, thereby burning the excess firewood. I was wondering why everyone was calling it [...]
Very eventful! Cold, rain, wind, Fyr Ball Festival, Olde Ellison Bay Days, Wilson’s Ice Cream, Drive-In, American Folklore Theater, Bike Trailer Tire Blowouts, Biking to Sweet Mountain Farm for Lawnmower Repair, The Albatross, Not Licked Yet, Newport School, Ice Cream Eating Competition, Firewood Surplus, Sunset Ferry Ride, Moretti’s Disappointment, Pasto Vino Awesomeness, Viking Grill Breakfast [...]
In a nutshell: heat, sun, frogs, grasshoppers, smashed potatoes, mud pie, Jensens, Brauns, Dompkes, Pestkas & others, sunsets, spared from storms, bonfire, lighthouse tour, kayaking, the beach, stargazing, socializing, scrabble, sequence, foraging, running out of sunscreen and more! This year we were on Site 9 for the first time, supposedly a waterfront site however the [...]
The most anticipated and arguably most fun trip of the year is right around the corner now, and it’s now become the traditional way we kick off the camping season. It’s none other than the… *drum roll* BOYS ONLY CAMPING TRIP!!!! Yes, indeeed, that means no girls are allowed. Zilch, nada, never, nowhere, no way, not [...]
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