What's your favorite Wisconsin memory? (Hayward, Palmyra: house, high school, camping)

[JoshB]

Cd Members, What is your favorite Wisconsin memory? Going up north some where? Lake Michigan etc.

Mine would be going up to the cabin in Hazelhurst. Nature is at your finger tips. I remember last summer our last trip up to the cabin, we were packing and I was just looking out over the balcony towards the front yard and seen a mom and 2 baby deer eating 20 feet away. I couldn't believe it. I even heard some wolves that prior night. Have never seen any bears though.

[UW Badgers]

I think my best memories of Wisconsin would be from when I was a child. We used to go up north(Hayward)for 2 weeks to the cabin. I remember having so much fun and meeting so many different families. The innocence of being a child. Waking up to the smell of pancakes my mom was making for breakfast. Taking long walks down the road to the main road picking berries as we went.

We used to get so excited to go into town for laundry day. The town then was far different from what it is now. There was a candy shop that we always got to go to. It just had baskets and baskets of candy for cheap. We would fill our bags to the top. We had a blast on those days.

We'd go out on the lake and meet with friends of the family on an "island" (as I called it as a kid)for a fish cookout. Those were fun too.

I'm so glad my parents did these things with us. I'm not into that as much now as when I was kid, but I still appreciate those times. Long before WalMart's and fast food chains invaded Hayward. There was the Moose Cafe and that was about it.

I'm 39 now and my parents still meet up with people that would stay on the resort(5 cabins)at the same time we were there when I was 7. I think it's pretty cool. They have been friends with the cookout people for just as long. They go out to dinner with them quite often.

I wouldn't trade those memories for anything. I had a great childhood and I'm so glad for all the things my parents did with us.

Not living there now is extremely hard on us, but we are trying to make the best of what we have where we are now. Someday we will get back to living in Wisconsin, for now at least it's only a 3 1/2 hour drive. Unfortunetly with the gas prices, our trips home have been cut drastically.

[ali&ajsmom]

I would have to say going camping with my family. I am planning on taking my kids camping for the first time this summer and I don't know who is more excited me or the kids. I want them to know the joys of sleeping in a tent, being outdoors all day long and spending time as a family without all of the electronics and family time stealing elements.

[JoshB]

Great stories!

[karfar]

My parents taking me & my sister & brothers camping, beginning when I was just 1 year old. Thank god they did that because I would hate it if I was one of those types that are repulsed by camping & nature.

[ekg56]

When I was a kid we went to Door County. This would have been about 1965. I remember driving up there and thinking it was so beautiful. I remember fishing off of Northport pier.
And we spent a lot of time at my Grandparents farm. We took the train up from Chicago and we would stay for 3 weeks. Carefree days of playing with my cousins. Playing up in the hay mow, eating ice cream at night and listening to my grandfather's stories.

[KateDaum]

As a kid we went to the Dells. I remember thinking the Dells were so cool. Now remember this was over 40 years ago before the Dells existed the way they do today. We went on the Ducks and it was so much fun.

[yo vanilla]

Running in high school cross country meets in the fall.

[mayfair]

My favorite memories were at my Grandma's lake house near Palmyra. We caught fireflies, ate junk food, and spent endless hours fishing and swimming. She made us clean our own fish or she wouldn't cook them but happily rowed us all over the lake in the old rowboat.

[JoshB]

Great Stories. I'm sure many of us will be maiking some good memories this summer.