Category: Blog
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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…
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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…