road trip     

Campsite overlooks the Wisconsin River near where it meets the Mississippi. First night is breezy and in the 50's. Overnight low will be 47 degrees. (Right-click on an image and select "view image" for a larger view)

Camp kitchen made from two wine boxes, complete with pots and pans, utinsels, plates and bowls, stanley french press coffee thermos, two coleman backpacking stoves, a tea pot, Penzeys spices, everything a cook might need.

Beef stroganoff tonight.

Looking West, toward the Mississippi

Looking East.

Sunrise, 5:31 a.m. looking East. Dawn was 4:57 a.m., announced by thousands of singing birds. Joy in the morning...

Our tax dollars at work. Money well spent, places like this are our national treasures.

The trail gains 300 feet in a third of a mile. The effigy mounds are stunning but really hard to photograph.

...growing out of rock.

...are just like that.