Before election week, we took a little road trip down to Viroqua, Wisconsin. We stayed in a cozy tiny house, ate incredible food from The Driftless Cafe, watched almost all of The Queen’s Gambit, and hiked around the bluffs of the Mississippi.
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While I'm quite good at names of people - the ones I know, not famous ones - I'm so bad at the names of other things: plants, flowers, birds, streets, clouds. Which is fine. For our mini-moon, we escaped to the driftless region of southeast Wisconsin. For a long weekend, we were surrounded by a field of yellow.
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At 8:30 am, J and I arrived at the Lenora United Methodist Church. I had texted my friend that morning to see if there was an actual address, and she confirmed that "no, you'll just get there and see a sign and it'll be small enough to figure out." Sure enough, we saw the sign when we coasted into the township of Lenora. The stone church was nestled in a lush little grove and dewy lawn clouded with mosquitoes.
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