June 6 – 12, 2012 – Wisconsin Dells, WI
We left Buchanan on Wednesday morning and drove through the far Northwest part of Indiana. We then crossed into Illinois where we skirted Chicago – we did not want to deal with Chicago traffic. We stopped for the night at a Wal-Mart parking lot in Harvard, IL. Thursday morning we headed north into Wisconsin and are staying at Christmas Mountain Village Golf and Skiing Resort in Wisconsin Dells. This is a very nice resort with cabins, condos and a campground surrounding a golf course. We kept looking for Christmas Mountain but could only see tree covered hills. The resort has two chair lifts, one for the ski slope and one for tubing. The ski slope has 11 runs with the longest run being 2,400 ft with a vertical drop of 250 ft – note that there is no mountain behind the first hill (not Colorado class skiing but we guess it works). The Wisconsin River flows through Wisconsin Dells. We stopped at...