Road Trip: Lake Delton - Day 1

Dacia was not able to go with us on the Ohio trip so we promised her a skate trip on her next day off. She had Wed and Thursday free this week so we piled into the Fit and pointed it north. It was a funny thing because I was really bummed lately that all the parks up north had been closed due to flooding. We ran into this rad young guy that we skate with at 4 seasons and he gave me the green on Lake Delton. You see, they had massive floods, winds and tornadoes a few weeks back and they actually lost the lake. I know this sounds crazy, it was a man made lake used in the Tommy Bartlett water show and a earthen dam broke and the lake literally drained into the river. Poof, no lake. So, the park was closed for a time but is re-opened now as most of the attractions in the area, accept the Water show, still not lake.

It was raining Wednesday morning and strong storms were predicted for the afternoon. I pushed the fact that we could take our time getting up there, check out some roadside attractions and eat a lot... So we did just that. Our first mistake was taking I-94 instead of I-90. I guess that we all are so used to going to Milwaukee that none of us realized we were heading the wrong direction until we hit Evanston. We decided to take the scenic route once we got over the border to get over West to the correct Highway.

We drove through Lake Geneva and out through all these great small towns. We stopped off to check out this big fiberglass elephant and clown. I guess it is a replica of an actual circus elephant that worked in that area in the 1930's. Wisconsin had scores of traveling carnivals in the 30's and 40's hence Circus World Museum and such. My father actually had some carousel horses that he got at an antique dealer up there but he sold them of probably 25 years ago. But there was a time when you could actually buy that old circus stuff cheap in upper WI. I doubt there is much left of it these days, or it would cost you stupid amounts of cash.

We stopped for lunch in Madison at this crazy Kosher Deli/Ice Cream Carnival. They had all of these animated Popeye's and Superman. They had the Beatles doing Sergent Pepper and every table had some cool shit going down. Our table had a train where the entire town was either robbing, pillaging or knocking buildings down. Good stuff and good food!! Of course, Calabro was upset with the portions of the Ice Cream scoops. He ragged about it for an hour after we left...

We saw a huge barn that was about to fall over, and lots of flood damage. Also, tornado damage, it looked like all of these fields of trees were just ripped out of the ground and broken all over each other.

We finally got to our destination and found a great campsite not to far from the park at Mirror Lake State park. I love camping. I woke up the next morning in the outdoors and was really feeling great for the first time in weeks. I am camping from now on for the summer. Good FUN!!!