Travels With Connie #77 The Nort' Woods

Sometimes I know exactly where I am going. In that case it’s easy, pick a route and go.

More often I have an idea where I’d like to end up, and generally speaking a direction to go.

Once in a while I just follow the front wheel and see where it takes me.

I don't know that I have ever explained why I was headed to Florence, Wisconsin. What the lure was. Well it's easy. Sam was spending the Summer there with his co parents Erv and Nancy. I was gone visiting.

You see, Erv and Nancy own 27 acres of the woods near Florence. They are from Wisconsin and wanted a presence there even though they didn't live there full time anymore. So this place presented itself and they bought it. It's one of the most pacific places I've ever visited.

I was also on the clock, at least a little. Erv and Nancy had a big family reunion down state and they'd asked me to come stay with Sam for four days. Let me think. I get four days alone with my doggy in the North Woods? Uh, yeah. I'm good with that.

I have to tell you that I was wondering how Sam and I would do. It'd been a couple months since I'd seen him. Not to mention that Erv and Nancy love him and are just so good with him. Better than me, to be honest. I'm just pretty sure that Erv has never laid an F Bomb on Sam, which I do with fair regularity. It turns out we were just fine. He really is a good boy.

Pretty tough detail, all in all. This is a picture of their trailer and the garden. Did I mention fresh vegetables? Did I mention that the last time I was here a bear ate my coffee?

Nancy was working in Yuma that summer, so Erv didn't even have a coffee maker. I set up my normal coffee mess on a little table just outside the door because I get up at a rediculously early hour, and want coffee. So I planned to have it outside by a fire. Except when I got up there was no coffee. When the sun came up I found the container I had it parked in out on the lawn with tooth marks. Big tooth marks. But there was enough coffee left in the container that I didn't have to go to town first thing.

Sam and I walked for miles and miles. Erv's property backs up against a state preserve which in turn backs up a state park. It's really a sweet set up and we took advantage of it.

Sam is maybe the most adaptable dog I've ever known. I knew how he handled the desert and how he behaved in that environment. He adapted to the woods in short order and changed his behavior to match. Yesterday I had him out in the hard rock canyons for the first time. He did just fine.

When Erv and Nancy came back on Monday I had promised that I would help him fell three Fir trees that were threatening his trailer. One of them is here in left center of the frame. But for the four days alone I did almost nothing except walk with Sam and write. Life is good there.

I stripped Connie darn near to the bones and parked her under the overhang of their trailer because it was raining pretty hard by the time I got there. A little rain wan't going to affect my pleasure...

Thanks for coming along for the ride!

All words and photographs in this post are mine. For better or worse

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