With a lingering to-do list and just days to spare, we sprinted to the finish line of our Wisconsin summer. First, we needed to get to a beach. “A real beach,” our five-year old sternly said. “One with waves and sand.” We found just the place right where it has always been, calmly waiting for [...]
Appleton rocks, especially this past Saturday where, within a two mile stretch, you could watch a National Tree Climbing Championship, attend the first annual Irish Fest, walk through a peak-season Farmer's Market and enjoy Rhythms of the World, a celebration of multi-cultural generosity and transcendent beauty. After all of that, we were also lucky enough [...]
If regions had a flower, I'd like ours to be the sunflower. Friendly, unassuming and resilient, sunflowers meet raging storms with a wink and a Midwestern shoulder shrug. Then, they shake the rain off their petals, straighten their stems and stand tall again. They start each day with enviable cheer, turn their faces toward the [...]
You have to be agile to celebrate the Fourth of July in Northern Wisconsin, able to dodge water balloons and flying cheese sticks and willing to scramble out of the way when children dive for all the candy and beachballs tossed their way. We know this because we were lucky enough to attend two Fourth [...]
That confounding Wisconsin Spring spilled dense fog all over the runways Saturday morning and torpedoed our plans for a Young Eagle Flight, but we still had an excellent adventure. That's how cool EAA, the Experimental Aircraft Association, is. First, we accidentally poked our heads into the maintenance hangar and, instead of being sternly rebuked for [...]