Off the Grid (and Back Again)
Wil and I took a week off to meet up with family and friends for a camping extravaganza! I somehow managed to take 0 (zero) pictures of my own while camping, but I'll try to update this post later (or make a new one) with camping pictures. We went to Fayette Historic State Park, located in the Upper Peninsula of MI on the north end of Lake Michigan. The camping is fantastic, but maybe even cooler was the ghost town half a mile away. The town of Fayette was a manufacturing town for only 24 years - talk about your boom and bust! Many original buildings remain from the late 1800s, and others have been reconstructed. While we were there, we also toured Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore for the first time in many years, and kayaked Big Bay de Noc. When I become independently wealthy someday (ha!) I think I'll spend my whole life just camping! Historic Fayette looking out to the bay. Wil and I toured the New Glarus Brewery in New Glarus, WI, after our return to civilization. I