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Still have reservations at Navajo Dam State Park on the San Juan River from September 13 through September 23. I think I’ll still go. It’s a 4 day drive each way at about 7 hours per day. Also, pretty sure I’ll be going back to the Driftless Area the first week of September.

Change of plans. Canceled my reservation at Two Lakes Campground. It’s such a long drive. Instead on Sunday the 15th I’ll be heading to Hiawatha National Forest up between Munising, MI and Escanaba, MI, and stay at either Bay Furnace Campground near Munising or Colwell Lake Campground near Mainistique MI. Each has many first come first serve campsites. I hope to take a boat tour of Pictured Rocks National Shoreline.

Today I took the 20 minute ferry ride from the pretty little town of Bayfield, Wisconsin to Madeline Island.

Madeline Island is 14 miles long and 3 miles wide. The southwest part of the island where the ferry docks is flat and wooded. The town of La Pointe is on the southwest tip of the island. La Pointe is very small, just a hand full of buildings, but is a little bit of a tourist trap. Bicycles, e-bikes, and motor scooters can be rented. There are quite a few homes and there is Madeline Island School of the Arts. The population is 267 in the winter and 2500 in the summer. The ferry runs as long as there isn’t ice. If the ice is thick enough there is an ice road. The northeast part of the island has a rocky shoreline with some cliffs. Big Bay State Park is on the northeast part of the island.

Only my second game of the year. A rare Wednesday 1:10 pm game. Half-price for seniors and kids. This seat was $9.

I’ve been thinking about spending all of November and December and a couple of weeks in January camped at La Posa LTVA on BLM land just outside of Quartzite, Arizona. I guess in the winter up to 750,000 campers, people not vehicles, can be in the area. The area was featured in the movie Nomadland. It would be an experience.

When the weather is pleasant I ride my bike over to Lake Shore Drive and go to downtown Milwaukee and back home. It’s about 12 miles one way.

While “Up North” the first week of August I’ll visit Bayfield, WI and Madeline Island. Two years ago I drove through Bayfield, a beautiful little town on Lake Superior. There is a ferry that runs every half hour to Madeline Island. Once there you can walk, or rent a moped, or an e-bike, or a bicycle to explore the small island. It will cost about $80 for a round trip ferry ticket and a moped for two hours. I have a friend I went to college with from 1970 to 1972 who lives in Cornucopia, Wisconsin. I’ll stop by his place for a couple of games of chess the day I visit Madeline Island. I have a toolmaker friend I worked with who lives in Superior, Wisconsin whom I’ll meet for lunch during the my “Up North Trip”.

I made camping reservations for the first week of August at a Chequamego-Nicolet National Forest campground. There are many National Forest campgrounds on lakes in the area. Wisconsin has more lakes than Minnesota. I have a float tube so I can float around these small lakes and try to catch dinner.

Can’t go anywhere the rest of July. The first week of August I intend to do a Lake Superior Circle Tour or an “Up North” Wisconsin trip if the Canadian border isn’t open. I still have reservations for a New Mexico, San Juan River trip this September but I’m watching the weather out west. If it’s super hot out there most of the summer I’ll cancel the trip and do a trip closer to home.

The last two summers I’ve had a Nova Scotia trip planned and canceled. If I don’t do it soon it won’t happen. Here is my plan for next summer…

2022 Nova Scotia Trip

Places to Visit

Circle Nova Scotia,   Meat Cove, Bay of Fundy, Halifax

New Brunswick Fundy National Park camping

Prince Edward Island ???

Maine ???

Start with Lake Superior Circle Tour. ???

Canadian Cities, Art Museums, Major Museums. find campgrounds and museums

Sudbury

Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, Hockey Hall of Fame, The Art Gallery of Ontario

Ottawa. Canadian War Museum, National Gallery of Canada

Montreal Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

Quebec City. La Citadelle de Québec

Miles starting from Richfield, WI

To:

St Ignace 365 miles

Whitefish Bay 75   miles

Copper Harbor 300 miles

Duluth 250 miles

Nipigon ON 250 miles

Sault St. Marie 375 miles        

Toronto 435 miles        

Ottawa 280 miles 

Montreal 125 miles

Quebec City 150 miles

Prince Edward Island 560 miles

Meat Cove Nova Scotia 375 miles

Halifax 300 miles

Bar Harbor Maine 450 miles

Syracuse NY 600 miles

Chicago IL 700 miles

Richfield WI 125 miles

Total 5700 miles

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And for 2023

2023 California Coast Trip, if California isn’t on fire. I’ve canceled this trip twice because of fires out west

Starting from Richfield, WI to

miles

Sterling, CO 950

Albuquerque, NM.   525

Santa Barbara, CA  900

Monterey, CA 250

Mendocino, CA 275

Coos Bay, OR 360

Port Angeles, WA 450

Spokane, WA 400

Billings, MT 550

Rapid City, SD 350

Richfield, WI 825

Total 5835 miles

I’m considering a Lake Superior Circle Tour Museum and Fish Cooking trip as soon as the U.S./Canadian Border opens. I’m not interested in visiting private goofball museums but there are many local municipality museums that I wouldn’t normally consider visiting.

The Fish Cooking part – I don’t know exactly what this means. If I can catch a walleye or some perch fishing from the shore that would be great. These days I don’t know if there are local fish shops that sell local fisherman’s catch. I haven’t done any research.

https://lakesuperiorcircletour.com/