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Ledge Park. Dodge County, WI. The park is situated on an exposed section of the Niagara Escarpment (the same formation that Niagara Falls goes over 800 miles away). Most of it was buried in Wisconsin by the glaciers 10,000 years ago, but it pokes through in a few places. This part of the...

Horicon Marsh, WI.

I'm no wildlife photographer but this was just too neat not to share. An otter at Horicon Marsh, WI this morning. I've never seen an otter before. I followed this guy up and down along a levee for a while. It was only about 20 feet away the whole time but was too busy catching fish to care...

Today on the Ice Age Trail near Lodi, WI.

Pleasant Valley Conservancy near Cross Plains, Wisconsin.

Walked through the prairie this afternoon at Lapham Peak State Park, WI. Temps in the mid 80's with about 75% humidity and no breeze made it fairly uncomfortable but it sure was pretty.

Smoky sunlight through a mulberry tree while burning my brush pile this morning.

Smoky, foggy sunrise yesterday morning Waukesha County, WI. The smoke from western wildfires has been traveling here to Wisconsin occasionally for the past few weeks. It smelled like fire yesterday morning. This morning at a marsh in western Waukesha County, WI. No smoke today.

I'm glad you liked it. If you are interested in my history with the VW, the original build thread from 2010 is on TheSamba.com titled "My 1966 Beetle Rebuild". I also did two other VW trip reports on this site, and in the first one from 2014 I gave a brief intro to the car.

I'm glad you liked my report. The whole northwest corner of Nebraska was a very pleasant surprise for me. I went out that way because I wanted to see Chimney Rock, not even knowing what else was in the area. It's a very pretty place. I hope to get back out to that part of Nebraska again some...

Thanks for the compliments. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I have really come to like searching out the overlooked spots in the middle of the country. I do need to get around to a conclusion for this story. I'll try to get to it soon.

These wouldn't all fit in the last post, so here are some of my pictures from Old World Wisconsin in Eagle, WI. It is a really neat place. The house to the left of the big pine tree is one of the earliest "manufactured" houses. The framing was a precut kit that was transported unassembled...

I had enjoyed traveling through the various landscapes over the past month or so since I left New Hampshire. However the answers that I had sought to personal problems remained illusive. I was chasing something that I was beginning to feel I wasn't going to find out here. The initial...

Today was exciting because I was going to visit Chimney Rock. As a kid I had spent a fair amount of time staring into the screen of a beige computer monitor playing many a game of Oregon Trail. It was my favorite educational game that we were aloud to play in the elementary school computer...

In Nebraska, the first 100 or so miles beyond the border at the Missouri River was indiscernible from what I left behind in Iowa. Now though, the land began gradually changing. Traveling along State Highway 2, which makes a broad curving sweep across the center of Nebraska, the rolls in the...

The next morning I cooked up a bowl of oatmeal on the Colemann stove and ate on the shore of Blackhawk lake as the sun rose over the horizon. Leaving the windows cracked open the night before had resulted in a damp blanket of condensation throughout the interior of the VW. I rolled the windows...

So what did I expect to find out there? Answers? Inspiration? Freedom? Direction? Maybe all those things. It seems silly looking back at the impossibly high expectations I had for that open ended ramble around the country. I was fueled by the romance of the road after having recently read...

I am so glad we did that too. We still talk about the trip from time to time to this day.

Sometime overnight the windstorm had subsided and we were greeted by clear skies as we left Tuba City for the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. We entered the park from the east on highway 64. I was amazed as we pulled up to the entrance booth there wasn't a single car in front of us. Turns out...

We stayed in Utah overnight and in the morning we got back in the car for our last day of travel before reaching the Grand Canyon. It had rained overnight and was still a little drizzly when we left the hotel that morning. I was excited because today our route would take us on UT-261 and down...