Inside the locked bathroom, trying to get out. All pictures courtesy the author.
After a rather funny start to the weekend (it was the modern lock not the old door that was the problem), Kevin and I had a trip road trip to Waupaca with pals Diane and John, Mary Louise and Ken.
It's not so often we adults take this kind of trip with friends, and despite the brief trip (two hours each way compared to four days one way when I moved to St. Louis with Mary Louise as the navigator), we still had a great time.
Navigational tools.
We had Google Map directions, several iphones and a gps, but the old-fashioned Gazeteer still ruled the day on the smaller country roads (where county road BB meets the KK, by the herd of black cattle.) Diane won the round!
Welcome to the inn.
Mary Louise booked us into a charming inn, which used to be an enormous working orchard, now with about seven acres of land and glorious river frontage.
Big old hollow, yet still producing, apple tree with a ladder supporting its tired arm.
We had dinner at Simpson's, a local supper club, and given the hour, we returned to the inn to yak and enjoy our time together (while avoiding an amazing gully washer of a storm).
Ken, John, Diane (with bug spray and camera) and Kevin walking down to the lovely Chrystal River.
Diane and I saw a huge heron taking off from its hiding place at the lagoon during our pre-breakfast walk (what a feast we were for mosquitoes), and later ran into a doe, whose path we were clearly blocking.
Diane at corn stand.
We stopped for corn and a few other vegetables--the corn was chewy, evidently, but it had integrity.
What a great set of visuals from yet another great trip down some back roads.
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