In the Wilds of Wisconsin

I promised our British friend that we'd show her things here in flyover land that she'd never encounter on "the coasts" or in conventional media depictions of America.  I think we delivered...

The Bloody Mary as a fully developed art form needs to have lots of pickled "stuff" and a chaser of beer.  The best of several she sampled was at Garmish on Lake Namekagon.

England has a few puny lakes.  But no Lake Superior.  Touring the Apostle Islands on a wind swept day.

Fall colors.  I kept telling her to step back.  Just a bit more.....but she's known me too many years to fall for it.  Or off the pier.

Other natural beauty.  Sometimes we saw wildlife.  Deer, eagles.  Wild turkey amazed her.  A chipmunk jumped right over her shoulder and shook her up considerably.  Just missed the jugular I told her.

There were lots of other things that I should have documented.  A Lutheran church meatball supper.  The trip to the rural "guy store" with a huge hunting and fishing department.  A gun safe big enough for her to hide in.  Muskrat traps.  Gallon jugs of bear attractant.  "Why would you want to ATTRACT them?"

Anyway, on our drive back to the big city at least I got to show her Elmwood Wisconsin.  Their annual town festival is UFO Days in memory of long ago sightings.  And we found a bit of odd lawn art to convey her homeward.

At one point I explained Cheeseheads to her.  She seemed intrigued but we were unable to find them during her stay.  Soon afterwards my wife ran across them in a store we'd driven past several times.  Alas.....  Next visit maybe.