Good Times with Friends at Land O Lakes, Wisconsin

We’ve been wanting to visit our friends, Jane and Rob Speer, at their lake house in northern Wisconsin for a while. So this year we booked two weeks at nearby Borderline RV Park.

The name Borderline is because it’s on the border of Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan,

and not because it’s kind of borderline pretty, with trees and some space, but also a dumpster directly in my view from the only place I can put my tent.

But it’s only 12 miles from the Lake House…

and Jane and Rob.

The view there was close to perfect, especially when the sun chose to peek out.

The house sits on Forest Lake…

which we explored in their fishing boat. Our first ride was fairly short,

as it was pretty cool and cloudy.

We’ve been having a great time exploring the area with them. On our first walk they took us to this treehouse in the neighborhood. The man who built it is happy to have hikers come by. We noticed the treehouse even had electricity going to it.

We’ve been doing a lot of walking, and Jane and Rob were with Matey and me for an important milestone which we commemorated with this selfie.

Matey and I have reached 15,000 recorded miles walked since I got him almost 11 years ago!

We didn’t stop there, while Rob and Bud golfed Jane and I took Matey and the stroller for a walk on a bike trail off their road.

It was a lovely trail.

The sun came out a bit, too.

We walked to some towering hemlocks and back.

Matey sometimes rode and sometimes walked and we went four miles altogether.

We went back out in the boat on another almost sunny day.

Jane and I just wanted a bit of a ride,

but while Rob stopped the boat for a few minutes on the still lake,

Bud caught this rock bass.

The guys dropped us off and we did another three mile stroller walk. They went back out fishing. Rob caught a largemouth bass and Bud caught this 20 inch northern pike. All the fishes went back in the water and we had steak for dinner.

We finally had a sunny day and went just north into Michigan and the Sylvania Wilderness Recreation Area. We went to hike along Clark Lake. This is the beach there.

A very nice couple from Indiana took this picture for us.

We hiked along the east side of the lake so the afternoon sun would shine through from the lake.

I tried to capture the party, but of course Bud stepped behind a hanging branch.

There were some nice views of the lake.

We hiked across this little creek…

up to another place where I could get a shot of the lake.

Then we all came…

back across the creek…

and back along the trail…

where the sun made the trees glow.

It was cool, but still, and very pretty.

With over thirty lakes around, this is a beautiful area, and we have loved being here with good friends.