Category: Blog
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Paris 2025
We returned to Paris this summer to visit our friend Maisie and her daughter Lucy. It’s been more than two years since our last visit, during my sabbatical. Catching up with these two was the primary reason for the visit. Lucy is a few months younger than László, and Danielle and Maisie are both writers,…
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Memorial Day 2025: Northern Door County
This year, the Harms Boone family annual Memorial Day camping adventure took us to Lake Michigan, somehow for the first time. We’ve had a strong preference for Lake Superior and crossing state lines in the past, so we changed it up and stayed within the boundaries of Wisconsin this time. We stayed at Wagon Trail…
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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…