You’d have to know me pretty well to figure out why me having a Lynyrd Skynyrd song in my head would make me feel like my mom. I don’t like the band. I don’t even know how to spell the band’s name (and it’s weird that spellcheck in WordPress does). But like my mom, no […]
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You Can’t Choose Your Neighbors, Either
The Harper Lee quote is about not being able to choose your family, but it applies just as well to neighbors in campgrounds. Every time we pull in to a new location, we’re in for a surprise about what our site will be like exactly (wooded? sunny? level? small?) but also who our very close […]
Missouri: Where are my warm lakes and bright sunsets?!?
Our last night was at that Swan Lake state park where we stayed just one night, which was thoroughly undocument-worthy. We did pull over in Iowa to make grilled cheese sandwiches (Tracy is brilliant with these, adding toasted dried onion) at lovely little town park. Too bad it was so cold and windy we could […]
Choosing Solitude
Or: Luckily Missing Out on a 1980s Dead Show When Jerry Wasn’t All There We’d had that campground at Ontonagon, MI, on our summer to-do list for quite a while due to its rave reviews online and the waiting list for campsites directly on Lake Superior. If so many people love the place, surely it’s […]
Goodbye Premium @ Superior!
Today’s our last day camped directly on this little bay (you can see the thin peninsula that forms it in the photo above). Here are my straggler photos from the final few days. Landscapes/Lakescapes Blueberry Picking Complex Problem-solving Using the Propane Firepit in the Tent You Were Good to Us, Washburn Campground! Tomorrow we’re heading […]
Our Third Week Here—What Are We Up To?
Just this morning I filled out the little campground form with our vehicle info and length of stay, folded a check into the envelope, and dropped it in the “iron ranger” at the entrance to the campground. Then I clipped my reservation to the post in front of our site. So it’s official: I’ve paid […]
The View I’m Addicted To
Right behind the Airstream. This bay that leads into Lake Superior. Morning, noon, and night. I stand in the water watching, and I lie in the water listening. I listen and breathe.
What I Love about this Campsite, Part 2
(Part 1 is here.) Cool Campground When there’s wind, the lake is pushed against the shore right behind the trailer so that it sounds like the ocean. That breeze is cool and keeps the insects away. Banjo loves it. Hiking trails leave right from the campground, and there are more just a short drive […]
Seasonal Campground
I saw this practice of people parking their camper in one spot all summer back in Virginia at Small Country Campground, but only now it is sinking in as a very cool idea. Most of the campers along this section of the bay into Lake Superior park their campers here in the spring and leave […]
Premium @ Superior
Please excuse the mess on the table in the photo above, but I just love the view from inside the Airstream at this “premium” camping spot—directly on Vandeventer Bay, the west end of Lake Superior. This campground doesn’t have the woods, the privacy, or the direct lake access for the kayaks (I think) that we […]
