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We spent a couple nights at Mousetail Landing campground, mostly because it was on a ridge, no flooding to worry about. We got there early, barely lunch time. On the way up we passed this sign, which gave me pause.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-29_113845_mousetail-landing.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_113845_mousetail-landing_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_113845_mousetail-landing_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_113845_mousetail-landing_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_113845_mousetail-landing_picwide-med.jpg" alt="sign, mousetail landing, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-29_113845_mousetail-landing.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Uh..."> + </a> +<figcaption>Uh…</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>I dropped it in first and we made the top. It was a pretty good grade, but not that bad. We had the campground to ourselves the first night, well most of the night. I took the kids down to the playground for a while before the rain started. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-29_121933_mousetail-landing.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_121933_mousetail-landing_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_121933_mousetail-landing_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_121933_mousetail-landing_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-29_121933_mousetail-landing_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playground, mousetail landings, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-29_121933_mousetail-landing.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The rain kicked in about three that afternoon and didn’t let up for about twelve hours. Luckily we keep plenty of rainy day activities on hand, though no matter how much there is to do eventually patience wears thin.</p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180528_103637.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180528_103637_pic5.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180528_103637.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180528_103625.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180528_103625_pic5.jpg" alt="drawing in the bus photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180528_103625.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +<span class="row-2"> + + +<figure class="pic5"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180529_131902.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180529_131902_pic5.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180529_131902.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Rain makes people grumpy."></a> +<figcaption>Rain makes people grumpy.</figcaption> +</figure> + + + + +<figure class="pic5"> + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180530_123814.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180530_123814_pic5.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180530_123814.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The first day at the playground the kids discovered tetherball, but Elliott was a little short. The next day he came prepared."></a> +<figcaption>The first day at the playground the kids discovered tetherball, but Elliott was a little short. The next day he came prepared.</figcaption> +</figure> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>At some point in the night ranger had to move Larry, the only other camper around, from the lower campground up to the ridge because the river flooded. We didn’t actually know anything about it until the next morning when we met Larry, but he had a far soggier night than we did. Aside from the front window seals, which have always leaked, there was hardly any water coming in the bus. Which means nothing, but until you remember that it makes you feel good.</p> +<p>The next day was still a soggy, humid one outside. We plugged in the air conditioner and tried to de-humidify and dry things out. We did a little laundry, gave Larry a ride to a grocery store (he was paddling down the Tennessee River and had no ride for a week, and no where to go now the river was way too high to run) and hung out around camp. The next morning we said our goodbyes and continued on to Land Between the Lakes, which is a rarity for American names, it is what it says on the tin.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-31_105651_mousetail-landing.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-31_105651_mousetail-landing_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-31_105651_mousetail-landing_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-31_105651_mousetail-landing_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-05-31_105651_mousetail-landing_picwide-med.jpg" alt="travco, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-05-31_105651_mousetail-landing.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="The fifth Travco we've run across. These are called Travco Esprit, they're sort of the cousin Eddie of the Travco family, but it does says Travco on the back."> + </a> +<figcaption>The fifth Travco we’ve run across. These are called Travco Esprit, they’re sort of the cousin Eddie of the Travco family, but it does says Travco on the back.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Land Between the Lakes is one of the places we run across every so often that draws in semi-permanent residents. You find people well settled for the summer, rigs with full size refrigerators next to them, grills bigger than the one I had at our old house and golf carts, oh the golf carts. </p> +<p>We stick out like sore thumbs at these places, but that’s fine, at this point we’re pretty well used to the attention. I’m not sure it’d feel like camping if half the campground didn’t stop by to say hi and ask about the bus. Meeting new people is why I travel so I like it. Usually. I do wonder about the people who come up to me at the dump station, but otherwise. What interests me about these semi-permanent residents at campgrounds like this is that they’re actually living the way the semi-nomadic people of the world have always lived — winter in something designed for warmth, summer in something with easier access to outside. I often wonder why more of us don’t do that, it’s still fairly common in much of the world.</p> +<p>Land Between the Lakes is what is says it is, a huge chunk of land wedged between two large reservoirs. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Most people seem to come for the fishing and boating. We drove around a bit and more or less felt like we had the place to ourselves. We discovered a road with a bridge that was out, found a herd of buffalo, saw a bright yellow flock of Goldfinches flying through a field of wildflowers that looked like you’d imagine a prairie should look if you didn’t know what a prairie looked like, which I don’t. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180601_150310.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180601_150310_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180601_150310_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180601_150310_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180601_150310_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Buffalo, Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180601_150310.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Somewhere beyond that fence, lost in the grass, are buffalo."> + </a> +<figcaption>Somewhere beyond that fence, lost in the grass, are buffalo.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Then we stopped at the 1850’s era farm that’s been preserved. I find these places somewhat tedious, but Corrinne and the kids love it. I like the history aspect, especially in this case because people are actually still running the farm as it would have been run in the 1850s, in period correct clothing no less. It’s living history, and that’s pretty cool. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_160325_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_160325_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_160325_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_160325_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_160325_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Farmhouse, Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_160325_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152944_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152944_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152944_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152944_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152944_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152944_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>That said, it’s probably no surprise that my interests lie with the more nomadic people of history. I like the mystery of people who left only fire rings and animal bones here and there. The sort of people that left archaeological finds that tell little other than the obvious — the ship lost its anchor in this little cove, the hunting party paused for a fire in the shelter of this cave, the hazelnuts were processed at this camp by the river, the clam shells where dumped in a mound here and so on. What these people thought, believed, loved, hated, revered, despised, or just did all day — all lost in the fog of time. </p> +<p>As one of my favorite characters says, referring to her desire to not have a gravestone: “I do not need a marker of my passage, for my creator knows where I am…. I lived a good life, my hair turned to snow, I saw my great grandchildren, I grew my garden. That is all.” </p> +<p>Still, I completely understand why the rest of my family loves to visit places like the farm. It’s a way to step into the past and momentarily feel like you’re part of it. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152149_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152149_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152149_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152149_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152149_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152149_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152022_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152022_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152022_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152022_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152022_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152022_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152040_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152040_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152040_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152040_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152040_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152040_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152113-1_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152113-1_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152113-1_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152113-1_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_152113-1_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_152113-1_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We’re probably something of a letdown to the re-enactors though. We shuffle into a two room house and they say something to kids along the lines of “can you imagine if you all had to live in something this small?” The kids stare and don’t know what to say and then we explain that we actually live in something smaller right now and that two rooms is fairly palatial by our standards. Then there’s an awkward moment of silence.</p> +<p>And it is interesting to see how the various European immigrants did things a little differently depending on what they were used to back home. But in every case so far, when I see how people chose to live I can’t help sitting there thinking, why…? Why were you fighting against the land? Why spend all this effort reshaping the land to meet your preconceived ideas of what it should be when others had been living off it for millennia working considerably less than the average newly arrived agriculturist? </p> +<p>One thing that becomes apparent quickly when rummaging around in the European immigrant history of America is that only one among millions seems to have ever bothered to find out what the people already living in any area were doing. And for whatever reason those one in a million turn out pretty frequently to be French. The guiding light of settlement in most of the US seems to have been hubris and a misplaced sense of self assuredness. Basically the two American qualities that continue to irritate the rest of the world.</p> +<p>That’s not to say the farm didn’t have its clever ideas, and clever uses of limited resources. It certainly did and I’m glad there are people out there keeping these ideas alive. But it’s sort of funny that many of the things we do for fun — hunting, fishing, hiking/walking, going to picking berries and other fruits, etc — are the things hunting and foraging tribes, well, just do. Something to think about.</p> +<p>Whatever the case, the kids had fun wandering the farm and we happened to be there when they were feeding the animals and putting them in the barns for the night. We watched chickens and ducks get driven into the coop, sheep and pigs fed and led to the barn and we even managed to get let back into the big barns to see the largest mules I’ve ever come across.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_155750_land-between-lakes.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_155750_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_155750_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_155750_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-01_155750_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-01_155750_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180601_161434.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180601_161434_pic5.jpg" alt="Toys from 1850, Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180601_161434.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180601_161118.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180601_161118_pic5.jpg" alt="Toys from 1850, Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180601_161118.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>And of course there was the hawk I mentioned in the last post. It just flew in a hung out one morning. The minute we left Tennessee the birds stopped being so friendly. I have no explanation for that.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-02_084949-2_land-between-lakes.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-02_084949-2_land-between-lakes_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-02_084949-2_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-02_084949-2_land-between-lakes_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-02_084949-2_land-between-lakes_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Hawk, Land Between the Lakes, TN photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-02_084949-2_land-between-lakes.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>On a totally different note, a couple luxagraf readers have asked where we’re headed this summer. We’re not entirely sure, but the rough plan is to visit Wisconsin, go around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, then back west into Minnesota and the Dakotas, then south through Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, and down to either Texas/New Mexico. 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We spent a couple nights at Mousetail Landing campground, mostly because it was on a ridge, no flooding to worry about. We got there early, barely lunch time. On the way up we passed this sign, which gave me pause.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-05-29_113845_mousetail-landing.jpg" id="image-1381" class="picwide caption" />
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+I dropped it in first and we made the top. It was a pretty good grade, but not that bad. We had the campground to ourselves the first night, well most of the night. I took the kids down to the playground for a while before the rain started.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-05-29_121933_mousetail-landing.jpg" id="image-1380" class="picwide" />
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+The rain kicked in about three that afternoon and didn't let up for about twelve hours. Luckily we keep plenty of rainy day activities on hand, though no matter how much there is to do eventually patience wears thin.
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+<img src="images/2018/20180528_103637.jpg" id="image-1377" class="cluster pic5" />
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+<img src="images/2018/20180529_131902.jpg" id="image-1378" class="cluster pic5 caption" />
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+At some point in the night ranger had to move Larry, the only other camper around, from the lower campground up to the ridge because the river flooded. We didn't actually know anything about it until the next morning when we met Larry, but he had a far soggier night than we did. Aside from the front window seals, which have always leaked, there was hardly any water coming in the bus. Which means nothing, but until you remember that it makes you feel good.
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+The next day was still a soggy, humid one outside. We plugged in the air conditioner and tried to de-humidify and dry things out. We did a little laundry, gave Larry a ride to a grocery store (he was paddling down the Tennessee River and had no ride for a week, and no where to go now the river was way too high to run) and hung out around camp. The next morning we said our goodbyes and continued on to Land Between the Lakes, which is a rarity for American names, it is what it says on the tin.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-05-31_105651_mousetail-landing.jpg" id="image-1382" class="picwide caption" />
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+Land Between the Lakes is one of the places we run across every so often that draws in semi-permanent residents. You find people well settled for the summer, rigs with full size refrigerators next to them, grills bigger than the one I had at our old house and golf carts, oh the golf carts.
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+We stick out like sore thumbs at these places, but that's fine, at this point we're pretty well used to the attention. I'm not sure it'd feel like camping if half the campground didn't stop by to say hi and ask about the bus. Meeting new people is why I travel so I like it. Usually. I do wonder about the people who come up to me at the dump station, but otherwise. What interests me about these semi-permanent residents at campgrounds like this is that they're actually living the way the semi-nomadic people of the world have always lived -- winter in something designed for warmth, summer in something with easier access to outside. I often wonder why more of us don't do that, it's still fairly common in much of the world.
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+Land Between the Lakes is what is says it is, a huge chunk of land wedged between two large reservoirs.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-01_061058_land-between-lakes.jpg" id="image-1383" class="picwide" />
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+Most people seem to come for the fishing and boating. We drove around a bit and more or less felt like we had the place to ourselves. We discovered a road with a bridge that was out, found a herd of buffalo, saw a bright yellow flock of Goldfinches flying through a field of wildflowers that looked like you'd imagine a prairie should look if you didn't know what a prairie looked like, which I don't.
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+<img src="images/2018/20180601_150310.jpg" id="image-1394" class="picwide caption" />
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+Then we stopped at the 1850's era farm that's been preserved. I find these places somewhat tedious, but Corrinne and the kids love it. I like the history aspect, especially in this case because people are actually still running the farm as it would have been run in the 1850s, in period correct clothing no less. It's living history, and that's pretty cool.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-01_160325_land-between-lakes.jpg" id="image-1393" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-01_152944_land-between-lakes.jpg" id="image-1390" class="picwide" />
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+That said, it's probably no surprise that my interests lie with the more nomadic people of history. I like the mystery of people who left only fire rings and animal bones here and there. The sort of people that left archaeological finds that tell little other than the obvious -- the ship lost its anchor in this little cove, the hunting party paused for a fire in the shelter of this cave, the hazelnuts were processed at this camp by the river, the clam shells where dumped in a mound here and so on. What these people thought, believed, loved, hated, revered, despised, or just did all day -- all lost in the fog of time.
+
+As one of my favorite characters says, referring to her desire to not have a gravestone: "I do not need a marker of my passage, for my creator knows where I am.... I lived a good life, my hair turned to snow, I saw my great grandchildren, I grew my garden. That is all."
+
+Still, I completely understand why the rest of my family loves to visit places like the farm. It's a way to step into the past and momentarily feel like you're part of it.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-01_152149_land-between-lakes.jpg" id="image-1388" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-01_152022_land-between-lakes.jpg" id="image-1385" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-01_152040_land-between-lakes.jpg" id="image-1386" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-01_152113-1_land-between-lakes.jpg" id="image-1387" class="picwide" />
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+We're probably something of a letdown to the re-enactors though. We shuffle into a two room house and they say something to kids along the lines of "can you imagine if you all had to live in something this small?" The kids stare and don't know what to say and then we explain that we actually live in something smaller right now and that two rooms is fairly palatial by our standards. Then there's an awkward moment of silence.
+
+And it is interesting to see how the various European immigrants did things a little differently depending on what they were used to back home. But in every case so far, when I see how people chose to live I can't help sitting there thinking, why...? Why were you fighting against the land? Why spend all this effort reshaping the land to meet your preconceived ideas of what it should be when others had been living off it for millennia working considerably less than the average newly arrived agriculturist?
+
+One thing that becomes apparent quickly when rummaging around in the European immigrant history of America is that only one among millions seems to have ever bothered to find out what the people already living in any area were doing. And for whatever reason those one in a million turn out pretty frequently to be French. The guiding light of settlement in most of the US seems to have been hubris and a misplaced sense of self assuredness. Basically the two American qualities that continue to irritate the rest of the world.
+
+That's not to say the farm didn't have its clever ideas, and clever uses of limited resources. It certainly did and I'm glad there are people out there keeping these ideas alive. But it's sort of funny that many of the things we do for fun -- hunting, fishing, hiking/walking, going to picking berries and other fruits, etc -- are the things hunting and foraging tribes, well, just do. Something to think about.
+
+Whatever the case, the kids had fun wandering the farm and we happened to be there when they were feeding the animals and putting them in the barns for the night. We watched chickens and ducks get driven into the coop, sheep and pigs fed and led to the barn and we even managed to get let back into the big barns to see the largest mules I've ever come across.
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+And of course there was the hawk I mentioned in the last post. It just flew in a hung out one morning. The minute we left Tennessee the birds stopped being so friendly. I have no explanation for that.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-02_084949-2_land-between-lakes.jpg" id="image-1397" class="picwide" />
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+On a totally different note, a couple luxagraf readers have asked where we're headed this summer. We're not entirely sure, but the rough plan is to visit Wisconsin, go around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, then back west into Minnesota and the Dakotas, then south through Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, and down to either Texas/New Mexico. 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We’re generally okay until about 95 during the day, after that it’s rough without air conditioning in this humidity. There were no electric sites left at the St. Louis campground so we headed north, to a campground just over the river in Illinois. Unfortunately that one turned out to be full, so we pushed on further north and found Beaver Dam State Park.</p> +<p>One of the few guidebook series I actually like is Smithsonian’s various guides to “natural” America<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>. The one for Illinois starts off with something to the affect: “Only one state has less public land than Illinois”. I read that back when we were in Athens and I thought, okay, well, how bad can it be really? Turns out… While it does have a few places in the southern part of the state, generally speaking, Illinois got used up before the push for public land preservation of the late 19th century could get much of it set aside. </p> +<p>For the most part, Illinois is a desert of corn.</p> +<p>From researching the seed strains and brands I saw advertised it would seem that the vast majority of the corn is not for food, but goes to the production of ethanol which (unless you’re lucky) ends up in your gas tank. Author and adventurer Craig Childs has an essay about hiking through these lifeless fields of corn in his book, <cite>Apocalyptic Planet</cite>. After two days of hiking in Iowa cornfields the only living things Childs finds, besides himself and corn, are two spiders and a species of fungus.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-08_132613-3_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-08_132613-3_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-08_132613-3_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-08_132613-3_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-08_132613-3_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Illinois, this is what it looks like. All of it. photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-08_132613-3_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Illinois, this is what it looks like. All of it. Seriously."> + </a> +<figcaption>Illinois, this is what it looks like. All of it. Seriously.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Dotted around, almost as if someone salted some green on the map as an afterthought, are little pockets of land generally just large enough for a small lake to draw in fisherman, the bare minimum of forest necessary to grant two hunting permits a year, and a little room left over for a campground. There are generally no other attractions, nothing that warrants a ranger station, nothing that needs a map. At Beaver Dam, if you opt for the back edge of the campground, you’ll have one row of trees and then the endless expanse of cornfields spread out before you.</p> +<p>The kids loved Beaver Dam though, so we stayed a few days. They loved it because it was full of kids. For the first time in quite a while they made new friends. And for the first time they got to run about in a gang of kids, roaming the campground the way we used to roam the neighborhood before everyone got scared of everything and started tracking their kids’ every movement. </p> +<p>The kids would jump up out of bed in the morning and run to the front of the bus and tear down the curtains to see if any of their friends were out riding their bikes yet. We tried to explain to them that most people sleep past six, but they just don’t really have an context to understand that. Once there was someone else up and about they’d take off not to be heard from again until evening, except when they needed snacks. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-09_152619_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152619_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152619_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152619_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152619_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Beaver Dam State Park, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-09_152619_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-09_152631_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152631_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152631_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152631_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-09_152631_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Beaver Dam State Park, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-09_152631_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Corrinne and I mostly sat around and read, there’s wasn’t anything else to do really. There were a ton of red headed woodpeckers in the campground, probably because it had the only trees for hundreds of miles, so I took probably 200 photos until I got a couple I was happy with..</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park_picwide.jpg" alt="Red Headed Woodpecker, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We’d made plans to meet my parents down in the southern part of the state, so after the families went home Sunday afternoon and the kid gang shrank in size to just three, we packed it up and headed south to the auspiciously named Garden of the Gods. No, not the one in Colorado. This one is the limestone remnants of where the Gulf of Mexico’s waters used to lap at the sand.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods_picwide.jpg" alt="Garden of the Gods, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Garden of the Gods gives something of a glimpse of what the wooded parts of Illinois were probably like hundreds of years ago. There’s a campground up on a ridge overlooking the area, which also manages to catch a little more breeze than most of the surrounding area. There were also some pines and junipers mixed in with the hardwoods, which made it feel more like being in the mountains.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_120308_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_120308_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_120308_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_120308_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_120308_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Garden of the Gods, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_120308_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The geology here is such that a lot of iron got mixed into the rock and formed interesting patterns. We hiked around one day, had lunch in the woods and let the kids climb rocks for a while. If you squinted hard enough and ignored the humidity it was almost like our time in Colorado last summer.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_114534_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_114534_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_114534_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_114534_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_114534_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Garden of the Gods, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_114534_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_124218_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_124218_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_124218_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_124218_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_124218_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Garden of the Gods, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_124218_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_115355_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_115355_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_115355_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_115355_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-12_115355_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Garden of the Gods, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-12_115355_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>The first campsite we had was right next to a pretty good size blackberry patch. They weren’t really ripe, but tart berries you picked yourself still beat ripe ones from the store any day.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-11_140733_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_140733_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_140733_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_140733_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_140733_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-11_140733_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-11_171018_garden-gods.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_171018_garden-gods_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_171018_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_171018_garden-gods_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-11_171018_garden-gods_picwide-med.jpg" alt="None photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-11_171018_garden-gods.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>Garden of the Gods was the nicest place we saw in Illinois, but it was still brutally hot and humid. Normally I don’t complain about the heat, but here’s the thing, if it’s going to be hot there needs to be a payoff — ancient ruins, beautiful beaches, spectacular deserts, or what have you. Illinois has some trees and lots of biting insects. </p> +<p>So when I found out my parents might not be able to make their trip due to illness anyway, we jumped at the chance to have them reschedule to meet us elsewhere. Fortunately they were able to do it, so while the kids were disappointed they’d have to wait to see their grandparents, we were all thankful to have no reason to stay in Illinois. </p> +<p>Unfortunately, the minute we hit the road north, a heat wave plowed through and send the temps into the triple digits, which made our drives miserable. We somehow traversed the rest of the state in two days, but we finally gave up just outside Chicago where we got a campsite with electricity, cranked the air to high and barricaded ourselves against the heat for a few days.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>I really wish they also had a series, Guide to Unnatural America. 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We're generally okay until about 95 during the day, after that it's rough without air conditioning in this humidity. There were no electric sites left at the St. Louis campground so we headed north, to a campground just over the river in Illinois. Unfortunately that one turned out to be full, so we pushed on further north and found Beaver Dam State Park.
+
+One of the few guidebook series I actually like is Smithsonian's various guides to "natural" America[^1]. The one for Illinois starts off with something to the affect: "Only one state has less public land than Illinois". I read that back when we were in Athens and I thought, okay, well, how bad can it be really? Turns out... While it does have a few places in the southern part of the state, generally speaking, Illinois got used up before the push for public land preservation of the late 19th century could get much of it set aside.
+
+For the most part, Illinois is a desert of corn.
+
+From researching the seed strains and brands I saw advertised it would seem that the vast majority of the corn is not for food, but goes to the production of ethanol which (unless you're lucky) ends up in your gas tank. Author and adventurer Craig Childs has an essay about hiking through these lifeless fields of corn in his book, <cite>Apocalyptic Planet</cite>. After two days of hiking in Iowa cornfields the only living things Childs finds, besides himself and corn, are two spiders and a species of fungus.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-08_132613-3_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg" id="image-1428" class="picwide caption" />
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+Dotted around, almost as if someone salted some green on the map as an afterthought, are little pockets of land generally just large enough for a small lake to draw in fisherman, the bare minimum of forest necessary to grant two hunting permits a year, and a little room left over for a campground. There are generally no other attractions, nothing that warrants a ranger station, nothing that needs a map. At Beaver Dam, if you opt for the back edge of the campground, you'll have one row of trees and then the endless expanse of cornfields spread out before you.
+
+The kids loved Beaver Dam though, so we stayed a few days. They loved it because it was full of kids. For the first time in quite a while they made new friends. And for the first time they got to run about in a gang of kids, roaming the campground the way we used to roam the neighborhood before everyone got scared of everything and started tracking their kids' every movement.
+
+The kids would jump up out of bed in the morning and run to the front of the bus and tear down the curtains to see if any of their friends were out riding their bikes yet. We tried to explain to them that most people sleep past six, but they just don't really have an context to understand that. Once there was someone else up and about they'd take off not to be heard from again until evening, except when they needed snacks.
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-09_152619_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg" id="image-1429" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-09_152631_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg" id="image-1430" class="picwide" />
+
+Corrinne and I mostly sat around and read, there's wasn't anything else to do really. There were a ton of red headed woodpeckers in the campground, probably because it had the only trees for hundreds of miles, so I took probably 200 photos until I got a couple I was happy with..
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-11_064239_beaver-dam-st-park.jpg" id="image-1431" class="picwide" />
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+We'd made plans to meet my parents down in the southern part of the state, so after the families went home Sunday afternoon and the kid gang shrank in size to just three, we packed it up and headed south to the auspiciously named Garden of the Gods. No, not the one in Colorado. This one is the limestone remnants of where the Gulf of Mexico's waters used to lap at the sand.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-12_113433_garden-gods.jpg" id="image-1434" class="picwide" />
+
+Garden of the Gods gives something of a glimpse of what the wooded parts of Illinois were probably like hundreds of years ago. There's a campground up on a ridge overlooking the area, which also manages to catch a little more breeze than most of the surrounding area. There were also some pines and junipers mixed in with the hardwoods, which made it feel more like being in the mountains.
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-12_120308_garden-gods.jpg" id="image-1437" class="picwide" />
+
+The geology here is such that a lot of iron got mixed into the rock and formed interesting patterns. We hiked around one day, had lunch in the woods and let the kids climb rocks for a while. If you squinted hard enough and ignored the humidity it was almost like our time in Colorado last summer.
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-12_114534_garden-gods.jpg" id="image-1435" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-12_124218_garden-gods.jpg" id="image-1438" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-12_115355_garden-gods.jpg" id="image-1436" class="picwide" />
+
+The first campsite we had was right next to a pretty good size blackberry patch. They weren't really ripe, but tart berries you picked yourself still beat ripe ones from the store any day.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-11_140733_garden-gods.jpg" id="image-1432" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-11_171018_garden-gods.jpg" id="image-1433" class="picwide" />
+
+Garden of the Gods was the nicest place we saw in Illinois, but it was still brutally hot and humid. Normally I don't complain about the heat, but here's the thing, if it's going to be hot there needs to be a payoff -- ancient ruins, beautiful beaches, spectacular deserts, or what have you. Illinois has some trees and lots of biting insects.
+
+So when I found out my parents might not be able to make their trip due to illness anyway, we jumped at the chance to have them reschedule to meet us elsewhere. Fortunately they were able to do it, so while the kids were disappointed they'd have to wait to see their grandparents, we were all thankful to have no reason to stay in Illinois.
+
+Unfortunately, the minute we hit the road north, a heat wave plowed through and send the temps into the triple digits, which made our drives miserable. We somehow traversed the rest of the state in two days, but we finally gave up just outside Chicago where we got a campsite with electricity, cranked the air to high and barricaded ourselves against the heat for a few days.
+
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More humid than I’ve ever experienced, including <a href="https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2006/03/angkor-wat">Angkor Wat, Cambodia</a>. It put us in the mood for something, well, cooler. Or at least less humid. So we headed to St. Louis. Because we’re not that bright.</p> +<p>Actually it was strange, we drove north, up through Kentucky, and the minute we crossed the state line the humidity dropped about 50 percent and it was actually tolerable again. I didn’t look it up, but I know what <a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-92.74,40.99,3000">earth.nullschool.net</a> would have told me — we’d just crossed into a mass of air moving down from the north. It was short-lived, but welcome nonetheless.</p> +<p>We stopped off at a mounds site on the way, and went through the somewhat creepy town of <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cairo-illinois">Cairo</a>, which has more or less been abandoned. It’s about five miles of abandoned buildings slowly being taken over by vegetation.</p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_132649_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_132649_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_132649_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_132649_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_132649_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg" alt="The bus, illinois photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_132649_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="If you ever wondered what the bus would look like from atop a Mississippian mound, now you know."> + </a> +<figcaption>If you ever wondered what the bus would look like from atop a Mississippian mound, now you know.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_135523-1_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_135523-1_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_135523-1_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_135523-1_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_135523-1_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Cairo, Illinois photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_135523-1_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>We stopped for one night at the Trail of Tears State Park, which had a campground right on the Mississippi River. We ate an early dinner and spent the evening down by the shore, watching the tugboats pushing their loads up and down the river. I managed to refrain from any <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNMmSbkAG8">Clarke Griswold impersonations</a>.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_153115_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_153115_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_153115_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_153115_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_153115_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg" alt="trail of tears state park, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_153115_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_183519_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_183519_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_183519_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_183519_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-03_183519_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg" alt="trail of tears state park, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-03_183519_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-04_055630_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_055630_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_055630_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_055630_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_055630_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg" alt="mississippi river, trail of tears state park, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-04_055630_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>And there was a train, you can’t go wrong with kids and trains (which fortunately did not go by in the middle of the night, because you can go wrong with grownups and trains).</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-04_083415_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_083415_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_083415_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_083415_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-04_083415_trail-of-tears-sp_picwide-med.jpg" alt="train, trail of tears state park, IL photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-04_083415_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>By the time we made it to St. Louis it was back to being hot and humid, doubly so because it’s a city and cities are always 10 degrees hotter than anything else. </p> +<p>We came to St. Louis pretty much for one reason — the City Museum. Everyone who said we had to go there, and there were half a dozen of you, became real vague when we asked what it was like. And now it’s my turn to be real vague — I can’t really say what the City Museum is exactly.</p> +<p>It’s like <a href="https://www.archdaily.com/519298/happy-birthday-antoni-gaudi">Antoni GaudÃ</a> and Jules Verne got together and built an amusement park. </p> +<p>It’s sort of for kids. There are definitely things only kids were small enough to do, but then there’s plenty for adults too, enough that every evening it becomes 18+ and stays open until midnight. Normally I’d say that a picture is worth a thousand words and insert of few here, but it’s also a really difficult place to photograph, it’s massive, full of dark areas with hidden passageways and tunnels. </p> +<p>There’s a bunch of slides and wire scaffolding stretching up about five stories on the outside, with an old fire engine, a wire rocket, an old cutaway airplane and a few other odds and ends mounted near the top. It’s all connected by narrow scaffolds and slides. It’s full of sharp edges, metal stairways and a good old fashioned modicum of danger you don’t usually find in the United States of Safe and Boring. </p> +<div class="cluster"> +<span class="row-2"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_113742_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_113742_st-louis_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_113742_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_114801.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic5 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_114801_pic5.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_114801.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_113643_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_113643_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_113643_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_113643_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_114908.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_114908_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_114908_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_114908_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_114908_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_114908.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_115038.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_115038_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_115038.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_114911.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_114911_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_114911.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> +</div> + +<p>Then there’s the inside. The City Museum occupies a 13 story building, though only about four of those stories are currently open to the public, others are open, but still in the process of being built. There was even an art gallery of some sort that was blocked off behind drapes and locked doors, no idea if it even had anything to do with the City Museum. It’s a very open space meant for exploring. </p> +<p>The best part of the inside part is a kind of dark, cave-like labyrinth, that extends for at least two, possibly three floors, with connecting tunnels you have to crawl through made of rebar and driftwood, cement, plastic, metal ribs, you name it. They sell knee pads near the ticket windows at the entrance.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_102930_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_102930_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_102930_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_102930_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_102930_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_102930_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_105454.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_105454_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_105454.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_130608_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130608_st-louis_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_130608_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_125546.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_125546_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_125546_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_125546_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_125546_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_125546.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_110605-1_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_110605-1_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_110605-1_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_110605-1_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_110605-1_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_110605-1_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis_featured_jrnl.jpg 520w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis_picwide.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_130414_st-louis.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130414_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130414_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130414_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_130414_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_130414_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_111608_st-louis.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_111608_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_111608_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_111608_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_111608_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_111608_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Inside is also has these really, really fun spinning top chairs. If we had a house, we'd have one of these."> + </a> +<figcaption>Inside is also has these really, really fun spinning top chairs. If we had a house, we’d have one of these.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Then there’s the roof, which costs a little extra, but is worth it. There’s a full size bus mounted on the corner of the roof, 13 stories up, with a door that opens into a sheer drop off (blocked off, but you can look straight down). The roof also has a Ferris wheel and a giant praying mantis.</p> +<div class="cluster"> + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis_picfull-sm.jpg 750w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis_picwide.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_121053_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_121053_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_121053_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_121053_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_121053_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_121053_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_122922_01.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_122922_01_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_122922_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_122821_FslAdlr.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180605_122821_FslAdlr_pic66.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180605_122821_FslAdlr.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_122658_st-louis.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122658_st-louis_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122658_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122658_st-louis_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-05_122658_st-louis_picwide-med.jpg" alt="City Museum, St Louis, MO photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-05_122658_st-louis.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<p>The roof is also the place to catch the 10 story high spiral slide. It’s long, but not actually as much fun as some of the other slides, especially the slides so steep you briefly free-fall or the others so narrow you spend your time really hoping you don’t get stuck. </p> +<p>Then there’s also random things, like a 19th century-style natural history specimen collection, a barbecue joint on the patio (it is St. Louis), and a place you can train to be a circus performer. </p> +<p>The City Museum is unlike anywhere I’ve ever been anywhere in the world and it’s pretty damn amazing. If you’re ever in St. Louis you should go, even if you don’t have kids. 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More humid than I've ever experienced, including [Angkor Wat, Cambodia][1]. It put us in the mood for something, well, cooler. Or at least less humid. So we headed to St. Louis. Because we're not that bright.
+
+Actually it was strange, we drove north, up through Kentucky, and the minute we crossed the state line the humidity dropped about 50 percent and it was actually tolerable again. I didn't look it up, but I know what [earth.nullschool.net][2] would have told me -- we'd just crossed into a mass of air moving down from the north. It was short-lived, but welcome nonetheless.
+
+We stopped off at a mounds site on the way, and went through the somewhat creepy town of [Cairo][4], which has more or less been abandoned. It's about five miles of abandoned buildings slowly being taken over by vegetation.
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-03_132649_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" id="image-1400" class="picwide caption" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-03_135523-1_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" id="image-1401" class="picwide" />
+
+We stopped for one night at the Trail of Tears State Park, which had a campground right on the Mississippi River. We ate an early dinner and spent the evening down by the shore, watching the tugboats pushing their loads up and down the river. I managed to refrain from any [Clarke Griswold impersonations][3].
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-03_153115_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" id="image-1402" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-03_183519_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" id="image-1403" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-04_055630_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" id="image-1404" class="picwide" />
+
+And there was a train, you can't go wrong with kids and trains (which fortunately did not go by in the middle of the night, because you can go wrong with grownups and trains).
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-04_083415_trail-of-tears-sp.jpg" id="image-1405" class="picwide" />
+
+By the time we made it to St. Louis it was back to being hot and humid, doubly so because it's a city and cities are always 10 degrees hotter than anything else.
+
+We came to St. Louis pretty much for one reason -- the City Museum. Everyone who said we had to go there, and there were half a dozen of you, became real vague when we asked what it was like. And now it's my turn to be real vague -- I can't really say what the City Museum is exactly.
+
+It's like [Antoni GaudÃ][5] and Jules Verne got together and built an amusement park.
+
+It's sort of for kids. There are definitely things only kids were small enough to do, but then there's plenty for adults too, enough that every evening it becomes 18+ and stays open until midnight. Normally I'd say that a picture is worth a thousand words and insert of few here, but it's also a really difficult place to photograph, it's massive, full of dark areas with hidden passageways and tunnels.
+
+There's a bunch of slides and wire scaffolding stretching up about five stories on the outside, with an old fire engine, a wire rocket, an old cutaway airplane and a few other odds and ends mounted near the top. It's all connected by narrow scaffolds and slides. It's full of sharp edges, metal stairways and a good old fashioned modicum of danger you don't usually find in the United States of Safe and Boring.
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-05_113742_st-louis.jpg" id="image-1411" class="cluster pic66" />
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+</span>
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-05_113643_st-louis.jpg" id="image-1410" class="cluster picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/20180605_114908.jpg" id="image-1407" class="cluster picwide" />
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+</div>
+
+Then there's the inside. The City Museum occupies a 13 story building, though only about four of those stories are currently open to the public, others are open, but still in the process of being built. There was even an art gallery of some sort that was blocked off behind drapes and locked doors, no idea if it even had anything to do with the City Museum. It's a very open space meant for exploring.
+
+The best part of the inside part is a kind of dark, cave-like labyrinth, that extends for at least two, possibly three floors, with connecting tunnels you have to crawl through made of rebar and driftwood, cement, plastic, metal ribs, you name it. They sell knee pads near the ticket windows at the entrance.
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-05_102930_st-louis.jpg" id="image-1414" class="cluster picwide" />
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2018/20180605_105454.jpg" id="image-1408" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-05_130608_st-louis.jpg" id="image-1419" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+<img src="images/2018/20180605_125546.jpg" id="image-1413" class="cluster picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-05_110605-1_st-louis.jpg" id="image-1415" class="cluster picwide" />
+</div>
+
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-05_130440_st-louis.jpg" id="image-1418" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-05_130414_st-louis.jpg" id="image-1417" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-05_111608_st-louis.jpg" id="image-1416" class="picwide caption" />
+
+Then there's the roof, which costs a little extra, but is worth it. There's a full size bus mounted on the corner of the roof, 13 stories up, with a door that opens into a sheer drop off (blocked off, but you can look straight down). The roof also has a Ferris wheel and a giant praying mantis.
+
+
+<div class="cluster">
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-05_122741_st-louis.jpg" id="image-1422" class="cluster picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-05_121053_st-louis.jpg" id="image-1420" class="cluster picwide" />
+<span class="row-2">
+<img src="images/2018/20180605_122922_01.jpg" id="image-1427" class="cluster pic66" />
+<img src="images/2018/20180605_122821_FslAdlr.jpg" id="image-1424" class="cluster pic66" />
+</span>
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-05_122658_st-louis.jpg" id="image-1421" class="cluster picwide" />
+</div>
+
+The roof is also the place to catch the 10 story high spiral slide. It's long, but not actually as much fun as some of the other slides, especially the slides so steep you briefly free-fall or the others so narrow you spend your time really hoping you don't get stuck.
+
+Then there's also random things, like a 19th century-style natural history specimen collection, a barbecue joint on the patio (it is St. Louis), and a place you can train to be a circus performer.
+
+The City Museum is unlike anywhere I've ever been anywhere in the world and it's pretty damn amazing. If you're ever in St. Louis you should go, even if you don't have kids. Maybe especially if you don't have kids.
+
+[1]: https://luxagraf.net/jrnl/2006/03/angkor-wat
+[2]: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-92.74,40.99,3000
+[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNMmSbkAG8
+[4]: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cairo-illinois
+[5]: https://www.archdaily.com/519298/happy-birthday-antoni-gaudi diff --git a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/06/wisconsin.html b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/06/wisconsin.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..492d99c --- /dev/null +++ b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2018/06/wisconsin.html @@ -0,0 +1,491 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html +class="detail single" dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> + +<head> + <title>Wisconsin - by Scott Gilbertson</title> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <meta name="description" + content="Going from northern Illinois into Wisconsin was the most dramatic climatic and seasonal change we've yet experienced on this trip. One day it was 103 and sunny, the next it was overcast and 60. 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It was partly weather related, but we went from temps of over 100 with 72 percent humidity to 60 degrees and not much humidity at all once the rain stopped. It was a rather amazing and welcome transition.</p> +<p>We stopped at Harrington because it gave reasonably easy access to Milwaukee and because if you run your finger along the edge of Lake Michigan starting at Chicago, it’s the first green spot you hit. The day we arrived it was overcast, cold enough to pull out sweatshirts and pretty much exactly what we were looking for after weeks of sweating through Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois. We ended up staying almost a week.</p> +<p>As soon as we arrived and got settled I took the kids down to see the lake. We are, I think, with one possible exception, water people. Put us on a shoreline and chances are we’ll be happy. There’s one of us that insists the shoreline have salt water, but the rest of us aren’t that picky. By the time we got to the shore of Lake Michigan the storm we’d been just ahead of all day finally caught up. There was a steady drizzle and the wind was blowing hard enough to drive even the kids back the bus in short order.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-19_141357_harrington-st-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-19_141357_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-19_141357_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-19_141357_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-19_141357_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-19_141357_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It wasn’t only the temperature that changed, we reset the seasonal clock by a good month or two as well. Up here wildflowers still carpet the hillsides, trees haven’t been leafed out for very long and the mosquitoes haven’t hit cloud status quite yet. All the song birds are newly arrived too, still setting up house. Yellow Warblers and Cedar Waxwings were busy building nests in the trees and bushes around our site. It was the sort of campsite we haven’t seen since Patrick’s Point, heavy shrubs, most of which looked to be blueberries, or something very similar, about two feet taller than a person and far too thick to see though. The sites themselves were carved out and probably required regular maintenance to stay that way.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-22_134144_harrington-st-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-22_134144_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-22_134144_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-22_134144_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-22_134144_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Wildflowers, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-22_134144_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-25_091354-1_harrington-st-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-25_091354-1_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-25_091354-1_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-25_091354-1_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-25_091354-1_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-25_091354-1_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It was still storming a little the next day so we decided to run our errands in Milwaukee and then we met up with some friends from Athens who recently moved to Milwaukee to take over the Woodland Pattern. We met up with them at Woodland Pattern and then headed out for Thai food. We only spent a few hours in Milwaukee, but we enjoyed it. </p> +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-20_164318_harrington-st-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-20_164318_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-20_164318_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-20_164318_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-20_164318_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Door to nowhere, Milwakee photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-20_164318_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Milwaukee has a certain whimsy and chaos to it that reminded me of the old Athens I used to love."> + </a> +<figcaption>Milwaukee has a certain whimsy and chaos to it that reminded me of the old Athens I used to love.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>We ended up hanging around Harrington Beach for a few more days so I could get some work done. I’d work in the mornings and in the afternoon we’d hike or head down to the beach for a swim. We hiked a trail called the Bobolink trail and saw bobolinks, we hiked the White-Tailed trail and saw white-tailed deer. After that I decided I had to go far enough down the birch trail to see a few birch trees. </p> +<div class="cluster" + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180621_150039.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150039_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150039_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150039_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150039_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180621_150039.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180621_150117.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150117_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150117_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150117_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_150117_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180621_150117.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +<span class="row-2"> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180621_145656_01.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180621_145656_01_pic66.jpg" alt="Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180621_145656_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180622_133317.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class="pic66 " src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_133317_pic66.jpg" alt="Birch Trees, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180622_133317.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</span> + + + <a href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-21_151621_harrington-st-park.jpg" title="view larger image "> + <img class=" " sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-21_151621_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-21_151621_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-21_151621_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-21_151621_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Butterfly wings, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-21_151621_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" ></a> + + +</div> + +<p>Once the storm that followed us in was gone we had gloriously sunny days, highs in the mid 70s, pretty close to perfect. We ended up spending a lot of time down at the beach. Unlike the first couple of days, once the sun came out we did not have the beach to ourselves.</p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/pano-lakemichigan.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/pano-lakemichigan_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/pano-lakemichigan_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/pano-lakemichigan_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/pano-lakemichigan_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lake Michigan Panorama, Harringtion State Park photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/pano-lakemichigan.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-23_150934_harrington-st-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_150934_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_150934_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_150934_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_150934_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lake Michigan, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-23_150934_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-23_151017_harrington-st-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151017_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151017_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151017_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151017_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lake Michigan, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-23_151017_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Note to self, always put on bathing suits when headed to the water, cold is not going to keep them from getting in."> + </a> +<figcaption>Note to self, always put on bathing suits when headed to the water, cold is not going to keep them from getting in.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-23_151606_harrington-st-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151606_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151606_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151606_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-23_151606_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Lake Michigan, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-23_151606_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-24_160133_harrington-st-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160133_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160133_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160133_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160133_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing at Lake Michigan, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-24_160133_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-24_160101_harrington-st-park.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160101_harrington-st-park_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160101_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160101_harrington-st-park_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/2018-06-24_160101_harrington-st-park_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Playing at Lake Michigan, Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/2018-06-24_160101_harrington-st-park.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180622_050408.jpg " title="view 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class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_052057_picwide-sm.jpg 720w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_052057_picwide-med.jpg 1170w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_052057_picwide.jpg 2880w" src="https://images.luxagraf.net/2018/20180622_052057_picwide-med.jpg" alt="Harrington Beach State Park, WI photographed by Corrinne Gilbertson" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2018/20180622_052057.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +<figcaption>image by Corrinne Gilbertson</figcaption> +</figure> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="wildlife"> + <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> + + <ul> + + <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> + + <li>American Goldfinch </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/american-redstart">American Redstart</a> </li> + + <li>American Robin </li> + + <li>Barn Swallow </li> + + <li>Black-capped Chickadee </li> + + <li><a 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It was partly weather related, but we went from temps of over 100 with 72 percent humidity to 60 degrees and not much humidity at all once the rain stopped. It was a rather amazing and welcome transition.
+
+We stopped at Harrington because it gave reasonably easy access to Milwaukee and because if you run your finger along the edge of Lake Michigan starting at Chicago, it's the first green spot you hit. The day we arrived it was overcast, cold enough to pull out sweatshirts and pretty much exactly what we were looking for after weeks of sweating through Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois. We ended up staying almost a week.
+
+As soon as we arrived and got settled I took the kids down to see the lake. We are, I think, with one possible exception, water people. Put us on a shoreline and chances are we'll be happy. There's one of us that insists the shoreline have salt water, but the rest of us aren't that picky. By the time we got to the shore of Lake Michigan the storm we'd been just ahead of all day finally caught up. There was a steady drizzle and the wind was blowing hard enough to drive even the kids back the bus in short order.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-19_141357_harrington-st-park.jpg" id="image-1439" class="picwide" />
+
+It wasn't only the temperature that changed, we reset the seasonal clock by a good month or two as well. Up here wildflowers still carpet the hillsides, trees haven't been leafed out for very long and the mosquitoes haven't hit cloud status quite yet. All the song birds are newly arrived too, still setting up house. Yellow Warblers and Cedar Waxwings were busy building nests in the trees and bushes around our site. It was the sort of campsite we haven't seen since Patrick's Point, heavy shrubs, most of which looked to be blueberries, or something very similar, about two feet taller than a person and far too thick to see though. The sites themselves were carved out and probably required regular maintenance to stay that way.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-22_134144_harrington-st-park.jpg" id="image-1442" class="picwide" />
+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-25_091354-1_harrington-st-park.jpg" id="image-1458" class="picwide" />
+
+It was still storming a little the next day so we decided to run our errands in Milwaukee and then we met up with some friends from Athens who recently moved to Milwaukee to take over the Woodland Pattern. We met up with them at Woodland Pattern and then headed out for Thai food. We only spent a few hours in Milwaukee, but we enjoyed it.
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+<img src="images/2018/2018-06-20_164318_harrington-st-park.jpg" id="image-1440" class="picwide caption"/>
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+We ended up hanging around Harrington Beach for a few more days so I could get some work done. I'd work in the mornings and in the afternoon we'd hike or head down to the beach for a swim. We hiked a trail called the Bobolink trail and saw bobolinks, we hiked the White-Tailed trail and saw white-tailed deer. After that I decided I had to go far enough down the birch trail to see a few birch trees.
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+Once the storm that followed us in was gone we had gloriously sunny days, highs in the mid 70s, pretty close to perfect. We ended up spending a lot of time down at the beach. Unlike the first couple of days, once the sun came out we did not have the beach to ourselves.
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+<img src="images/2018/pano-lakemichigan.jpg" id="image-1468" class="picwide" />
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