Minocqued Up.....an unexpected adventure.

Greetings web travelers!  My dynamic journey of self discovery and adventure starts with a move from my warm comfortable surroundings of Northern Minnesota to a far away and magical land called WISCONSIN! 

(FLASH OF LIGHT as the clouds part from the skies and we see an overhead map of the midwest!)  (In an Indiana Jones style red line showing the route from Northern Minnesota a full 6 hours to the East to Northern Wisconsin) 

That's right, I've landed in "Wisconsin" is the English spelling of a French version of a Miami Indian name for the river that runs 430 miles through the center of our state. Recent scholarship has concluded that in Miami it meant, "this stream meanders through something red."  That's right, I'm in the land that has a river that slowly takes it's sweet ass time wondering through "something red." 

"Something Red."  Wow, beautiful.  The Wisconsin people have an amazing, poetic way with their words.

Anyways, I've relocated to Minocqua, WI to run a Papa Murphy's Take n Bake Pizza restaurant.  Did I just spell restaurant correctly?  Oh well, no one will notice.  Minocqua is known as the Island City (or something, I'm not fact checking here).  There are lakes and trees and stuff everywhere.  I wonder what the Native American word for "there are lakes and trees and stuff everywhere" would be?  It's probably how they came up with about half the names of things around here.  Also, that might be lyrics for the America song, "Horse With No Name."  Here are the actual lyrics, "There were plants and birds and rocks and things, There was sand and hills and rings."  Yup, sounds like a 1st grader's report about a class trip to the dessert.

So, I'm alone in Minocqua, WI while my family is back in sunny Bemidji, MN.  I miss them dearly but we decided to roll the dice and take the risk on this move.  My family should be joining me in the spring or "after the thaw" as hillbillies say.  This is a huge change.  Something I won't forget.  This will challenge me as a person, a husband & a father.  To be away from my family and trying to lay the brickwork for a new start for us is testing.  But, I am ready to meander through something red.