Wisconsin Drive

Mostly a drive up and away from the Mississippi today, through the "Driftless" area, which means this is one of the few areas that is essentially untouched or carved, (formed) by glaciers. The resulting topography is just the natural carving by rivers in soft limestone. Wisconsin is home to one of the worlds largest collection of clear, cold water rivers. It's all about the
We are heading up to the very north of Wisconsin, to the Apostle Islands National lakeshore, similar to the Picture Rocks lakeshore, but larger. One, it is supposed to beautiful, and two, it should be (better be) COOLER.
It had been hot here, I guess we are in a heat wave. It was 95 degrees here with 60 plus humidity. Very high for this time of year, and it is taking a little bit of a "toll"!? Sometimes you don't want to get out of the RV. Thank goodness we have excellent air conditioning and I usually have a little fan near by. Makes us sort of nervous about our outside Parks job in Traverse!
Stopped for lunch in Coon Valley, and made a couple of drive by photo ops heading north. Overnight in a little RV park behind a hotel north of Eau Claire. $40, but the showers were acceptable and clean. (Miss the core of Engineers sites for $10, but they only had the shower that you push the button for water, & one temperature) Got to wash my hair, which I don't try to do in RV. Walked out back with binocs and saw two deer feeding and a four legged animal, looked big for fox, but maybe, or coyote. Saw lots of road kill on the highways up here, deer, racoon, and unidentifiable animals....just a lot more wildlife up here trying to cross the highways!Read more