August 1990

August 1990

Aimee and I made the three-hour drive north to explore the Wisconsin Dells, a popular summer excursion for Chicagoans. The Dells is a scenic glacier-carved gorge of tall limestone bluffs on the Wisconsin River. They are similar to the Mississippi bluffs north of my hometown of Alton, IL. We take an amphibious “duck boat” tour to see this original attraction.

Most tourists now come for the other attractions of shopping and water parks. We took in the Tommy Bartlett Water Show on nearby Lake Delton. It is a water-skiing show similar to the one I saw as a teenager at Cypress Gardens in Tampa, FL.