Potawatomi State Park

So, as I mentioned before, our group campsite at Potawatomi State Park was enormous. Rated for up to 36 people, it had picnic tables for that many and tons of horsing around space. Surrounded on three sides by woods, we could see one neighboring campsite (a bit) through the trees–but otherwise felt alone out there.  It [...]

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King of the campsite

VV1 is 5 years old going on 15.  A good hiker, enthusiastic flower photographer, and avid fisherman with a great casting arm, VV1 could do it all, remaining calm and sociable no matter what the camping trip threw at him — from heavy rain to a trip to the emergency room with his sick brother. The [...]

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Skip, skip, skip to my lou

Our group campsite at Potawatomi State Park was beautiful and BIG. How BIG was it? This is just a corner of it:

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Where there’s Frank, there’s fire

Also, smoke.  And, in this case, smoked bologna.

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Where there’s gas, there’s fire

1 vacation, 2 emergencies, and 2 happy endings:  chapter 2 Potawatomi State Park: Door County, Wisconsin Regular readers of the Journal may have heard already about the heavy rains of camping night 1, followed by VV2′s early morning seizure at the campsite, his headlong tumble into the (cold, wet) fire pit, DDR Queen’s speed of [...]

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