The Adventures of Matt and Stacey: The Northwoods

After Chicago, we made a quick stopover in Milwaukee to visit a good friend from our California days, and then we continued on to Northern Wisconsin. My dad's family has been vacationing in the Northwoods, as they are called, for many generations, and we were lucky enough to be able to stay in the same cabin that my dad grew up visiting.

I'd been to the Long Lake cabin several times as a kid and then once again while I was in college. I was excited to show Matt the area and happy that my parents were flying out to meet us for a week on the lake. They arrived on July 4th to a tiny regional airport in Rhinelander WI, and we drove out to get them. As we learned later in the week, Wisconsin has no restrictions on fireworks of any kind, so there were huge fireworks displays were going off all around us as we drove to the airport and back. It was a colorful welcome to the area to say the least.

Our week at the lake was a great time relax, but we also managed to squeeze in quite a few activities. Some of the highlights included: walking through the woods on old sugar camp roads, making friends with the local animals, baking cookies, fly fishing from the dock, visiting Lake Superior and hunting for agates on the beach, getting a tour of Long Lake from our hosts, shopping at the local farmer's market, visiting Whataview Farm, and killing swarms of mosquitos with our new electric fly swatter. It was a great time for everyone!