Adventures of a Milwaukee family.
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Lake Superior Memorial Day 2024
We’ve done a Memorial Day camping trip every year since 2021 (except last year). We camped at the Porcupine Mountains, Madeline Island, and Cornucopia, WI in 2021; Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and returned to Corny in 2022; and this year we returned to the UP but ventured to Minnesota’s North Shore instead of the Apostle…
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Far-western Wisconsin
A few weeks ago we visited far-western Wisconsin, the region vaguely stretching from Eau Claire north to the lake and west to the MN border. We’ve lived in Milwaukee for four full years now but have never made it that far west until now. That’s mostly because the journey is really only possible by way…
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Milwaukee by boat
Milwaukee is one of the many beautiful cities along North America’s freshwater coast. But despite the relatively narrow passages compared with, say, an ocean, the Great Lakes can be dangerous and unpredictable to navigate, and commercial passenger vessels are rare and increasingly cost prohibitive where they do exist. As a result, we’ve rarely entered the…
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The Azores
Our final leg of this trip took us from one Portuguese archipelago to another: Ponta Delgada on the Azorean island São Miguel. It was an extraordinary cap to a trip that took us to big cities and countrysides across south-central Europe. Why these archipelagos? Well, we had this wacky idea to go big on this…
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Porto da Cruz, Madeira
There’s something incomprehensible about island life to me. No doubt it is largely due to having grown up landlocked, or at least shore-bound, on a massive continent. I felt this when we visited Hawaii in 2016, and I felt it again almost immediately upon arrival in Madeira. It’s a marvel of the global supply chain…
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