A Road Often Travelled

The truck was packed, the batteries were charged, and at 5PM Thursday Jun 18th, Billy and I were heading north on Hwy. 45 for the 47th parallel. If you check your world Atlas, you will find the 47th runs right through Eagle River, WI. We were heading north for yet another fathers day weekend of fishing and living the cabin life for a few days. The drive went much easier than I expected as we had dry traffic-less travel almost the entire way here. We wasted little time getting gas at one stop, a couple of burgers at another, and finally cream for the morning coffee at our final and third stop. We pulled into Andrules Hide-A-Way at 11:04PM and according to my GPS friend, we would have been here at 10:34PM if we never stopped at all. Then again, the GPS is not able to see my gas guage. We unloaded the truck, got comfortable real quick, and were sleeping by mid night.

Billy woke up about 7:30AM Friday morning to find the lake just a little lower, the pier a little longer, and the grass a little higher. We had some breakfast, got gas for the boat, bought the 2009 license, and quickly discovered why the 5 1/2 motor tank had no gas....the primer/pump in the gas line had dry rotted to the point a hole broke through. When I went to prime the gas line, the gas was spewing out of the primer all over. We quickly decided it was a good morning for canoe fishing. By 8:30 AM we were between the islands on Forest Lake and just barely making our way through the lilly pads when Bill caught the first fish of the year!