Home again, home again

What a whirlwind couple of months! In June and July I've been to Las Vegas, Oregon, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and to the north woods of Wisconsin. Talk about a busy few weeks. But we're back home in Sturtevant and should be staying put for at least a month or so. We're cooking up a trip to Oregon sometime in September, and maybe, just maybe, I'll get that first stamp in my passport sometime this fall. We'll see. But for now, it's good to be home.

We spent the past 5 days at Ben's family's cottage about five hours north of here -- or about an hour south of Michigan's upper peninsula. What a beautiful place! The cottage is on Little Muskie Lake just north of the Woodruff/Minocqua area.

Minocqua is a cute little island town -- a lot like Seaside for all you Coast-lovers. There's a main drag with fudge and candy shops and lots of quaint gift shops. In fact, the whole north woods area looks a lot more like Oregon than SE Wisconsin does -- minus the hills of course. But still - it was nice to see some green again.

We spent our days fishing on the lake, making smores over the campfire, bumming around town and even biked through a forest on the Madeline Trail -- which is really just some old overgrown logging roads.

The cottage doesn't have a phone, has poor TV reception and the cell phone only worked in the corner by the kitchen -- and I absolutely loved being cut off from everything because it meant that no one could bug me! Except for the bugs of course, and I have 8 bug bites to show for it.

We'll have pictures of the trip up north -- including my amateurish nature photographs -- posted soon. Just as soon as we finish all the laundry.