Travel

9 entries

1982

Friday, January 1, 1982 · Don Krumpos

Mader's

As a child, Milwaukee felt less like a city than a foreign country. To get there from the Door Peninsula farm already felt like crossing worlds—leaving fields, machine sheds, and county roads for expressways, brick facades, traffic, and the unnerving…

Saturday, January 1, 1983 · Don Krumpos

Light on a Living Room Wall

Before I knew Europe as geography, I knew it as light on a living room wall. My father had a slide projector—I can still hear, or think I can hear, the dry mechanical click of the carousel advancing, the brief…

Sunday, January 1, 1984 · Don Krumpos

One Railing Off

It rained most of the weekend, and when we came out onto the overlook the valley was giving itself up to mist. The trees below were half-erased, the far ridge gone soft and white, the whole place breathing through wet…

Monday, July 1, 1985 · Don Krumpos

Talked Us Free

My father believed in long drives. Not the modern kind, broken by motels and careful pacing, but marathon drives measured in thermoses. Twelve hours. Sometimes fifteen. He did almost all of it himself, hands steady on the wheel, one elbow…

Sunday, August 16, 1987

Sunday, August 16, 1987

Today it rained most of the day. Keith is on days. Tomorrow Helen and I are going on a shopping trip to Appleton. The kids are are growing up so fast it sometimes scares me. Donny is a fine young…

Monday, July 29, 2013 · Don Krumpos

Nothing but the Rushing Creek

We drove up Friday morning, stopped for groceries and coffee at The Wedge, then picked up Kari in Duluth and kept going north. Temperance River State Park. We set up the tent and hiked along the north side of the…

Sunday, July 27, 2014 · Don Krumpos

All the World's a Stage

On Saturday, our family had a chance to go to the Bristol Renaissance Faire. We haven't been there together for 10 years so it was worth it to take the trip. Gabby, Donnie and their friend, Elias all woke up…
Monday, September 22, 2014 · Don Krumpos

The Violet City by Lantern Light

We drove south on Thursday, all the way to Mammoth Cave, because if you're going to Kentucky for a wedding you might as well go through the longest cave system on Earth first. The park was enormous. We had trouble…

Saturday, August 17, 2024 · Don Krumpos

The Paper Mâché Cathedral

Erin and I left on August 15th and drove to Blind River, Ontario — one of those small highway towns where the motel has a bar next door and the bar has karaoke and that's the whole nightlife. We had…