Turnaround To Wisconsin Days 17 & 18 - Lake Wissota State Park in Wisconsin

I am way way way behind in posting these blogs. I got the photos on and I never got around to finishing all of the dialogue. 

After two really nice relaxing days at Gull Lake in Brainerd, Minnesota, we decided to move on into Wisconsin. There was a state park near Chippewa Falls called Wissota State Park that we have always meant to get to.

We looked ahead online and found a campsite for two nights so we set our GPS and away we went. 

We left Gull Lake about 8:30 in the morning. We went into Brainerd and stopped for a little restocking of groceries. We stopped for some fuel but we only found BioBlend. Instead we decided to move on further and we found regular diesel number two at a Marathon. Mercedes-Benz does not recommend ever using the bio blend diesels. 

It wasn't too long and we were crossing back into Wisconsin. We saw this welcome sign. 

At almost every major entry point into Wisconsin they have this beautiful large wooden sign. As a child, there's a picture of all six of us kids lined up in front of it with Mom one of the times we traveled up to Michigan. It brings back such fond memories to see these familiar signs everywhere.

Yep, we were back in Wisconsin! Look at those beautiful blue skies!!!!

Now we didn't regret at all aborting our mission to reach all the way to Washington State. The wildfire smoke and high temperatures had chased us back. But everything now looked familiar and clean and fresh and clear to our eyes.

Look at these wonderful temps by Chippewa Falls. 75° days and 50 and 60 at night. This is our kind of weather!!! 

The website had warned us that there might be some construction going on near our campsite. There was a new shower building being constructed. But absolutely nothing was happening when we arrived at the park. So we had total peace and quiet and no construction.

Wisconsin State Parks do not accept the Federal America The Beautiful Senior access pass. So we do pay full price. It is $28 a night with electric. There's also a $7.95 reservation fee. But by this point, we were so happy to be back in Wisconsin, that we didn't care. 

Our campsite was quiet and pristine. We had beautiful shrubbery all around. The only drawback was the lower shrubs had little teeny burrs on them. This is the time of year that they reach out and grab little doggy fur coats as he brushes past them. A few times we had to take a comb and get them out of his long fur before they became entangled. 

The sun dappled ground with the dipping and swaying of the leaves and the trees was absolutely beautiful. There was a slight breeze and the temperatures were perfect. The humidity was down and there were no storms in sight.

Little Nick enjoyed laying out with us on the mat. We kept him away from the brush so he didn't get any more burrs. Potty time was out on the mowed grass area in front of our site. 

Our camper was set so far back into our site and we were surrounded by green on every side. I think of all the campsites we've been on for the previous three weeks, this is probably my favorite! Isn't that crazy? By now we had put on over 2,000 miles! And what do I like best? A campsite right here in Wisconsin.

We set the lawn chairs out by the campfire and we were going to light our little pellet fireplace. Steve hauled out the bikes and said let's go for a ride. Of course, Nick hopped right in his little cart.

All of the blacktop in the park had recently been repaved. It was super smooth for riding bikes up and down all of the roads. Just cruising on through the woods in the perfect temperatures was absolutely delightful.  We put on over 5 miles just checking out the campground.

After it was done I realized that the two loops of the campground kind of made it look like a butterfly!!!

I cannot tell you how comfortable and relaxed we felt by hanging out in our campsite, back in Wisconsin.

I have a YouTube to correspond with this blog post, but I haven't finished editing it yet. When it's done I will post it here: 

We traveled 239 miles today 

That is 2058 miles so far 

We fueled up at $3.45 a gallon diesel and we are averaging 13.58 miles per gallon