{"id":649,"date":"2004-08-30T08:20:15","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T15:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2016-08-14T19:58:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T00:58:27","slug":"clam-lake-or-mosquito-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Clam Lake or Mosquito Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave takes a trip through northern Wisconsin<\/a>.
\nI used to go on bike tours throughout Wisconsin. They have the
\ncounty road system for bicycling. Small two lane roads that go
\neverywhere and generally have very little traffic. Mostly little
\nfarm roads through the countryside. I remember stopping at a
\ndairy farm out in the middle of nowhere WI to get some water and
\nwatching as they made cottage cheese or something that looked like
\ncottage cheese. I’ll try to find some of the old photos from
\nthose trips. I posted a few<\/a> a while back. I’ve got a couple of photos that look quite similar to a few of Dave’s shots.<\/p>\n

On these trips we would stay at state or county parks. I’ll never
\nforget our night at Clam Lake<\/a> in the Chequamegon National Forest<\/a>, “Our Job is Making Memories.”.
\nWe had a nice dinner cooked over our little folding stove, got
\neverything all cleaned up, pitched our tent, well it’s not really a
\ntent just a big sheet of blue tarp hung over a rope between two trees,
\nand were ready to sleep. Until the mosquitoes came. After a
\nfew nanoseconds of those little critters buzzing in our ears we decided
\nto pack up and get back on the bikes. (I wonder if this attracts mosquitoes?<\/a>) The mosquitoes didn’t seem
\nto bother us if we rode fast enough. It was amazing riding down
\nthat little two lane road by the light of the moon. Until the
\nmoon went down and then it was really, really dark. Riding by the
\nlight of the stars wasn’t as much fun as the light of the moon.
\nThe road was fairly straight, and downhill as it approaches Lake Superior thank God, so we could see cars coming from miles
\naway. We would pull off the side of the road and let them
\npass. The noises somehow became much louder in the
\ndarkenss. We could hear but not see all kinds of critters moving
\nin the brush along the sides of the road. We rode all night and
\nended up in Ashland, WI<\/a>.
\nCivilization at last! We went to try and get a room at the
\nnearest motel but there was no answer. We tried the Police
\nstation but it seemed abandoned too. I think there was some sort
\nof festival going on and the whole town was there. We ended up
\ncamped out in a parking lot somewhere.<\/p>\n

I still have the bicycle I rode on those trips. I’ve been
\ncleaning it up lately as it had been hanging up in the garage and
\nhasn’t had much use in the last 10-15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave takes a trip through northern Wisconsin. I used to go on bike tours throughout Wisconsin. They have the county road system for bicycling. Small two lane roads that go everywhere and generally have very little traffic. Mostly little farm … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}