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Category Archives: Scenery
You Can’t Go Home Again (because other people live there now)
On the way home from Wisconsin, we stayed a night in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, close to where we lived for 18 years. We got a surprisingly good rate on a room at a new and fancy Hampton Inn … Continue reading
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Five Days Up North
We rented a cabin in the Oaken Bucket Resort on Thunder Lake in Rhinelander. While it was actually in town, the resort was on a peninsula and felt a lot remoter than it was. We were about five miles from … Continue reading
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Lake Michigan from the Indiana Dunes
We spent a day with our niece and her husband in Porter County, Indiana. They live about a mile from Lake Michigan, surrounded by pieces of Indiana Dunes National Park. During the day, we went to the lake shore two … Continue reading
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Lake Fort Smith State Park
I’ve been to most of the state parks in the west-central part of Arkansas, but I’d never been to Lake Fort Smith before. I arrived at 7:40 and had the place pretty much to myself. There isn’t a lot to … Continue reading
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Arizona Birding Adventure
I had been birding for five years when my wife and I spent a week in Tucson with my parents in 1984. They liked birds, although they weren’t hard-core listers. On many of the days during that March/April trip, we … Continue reading
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