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I actually used the GPSr to find a local restaurant in Verona last fall, where I had dinner with Dean and Roxy of wywrdsn. It was good food, too. I’ll need to try and figure out what it was, so I can list it.
I come from a family of small businesspeople, so that’s always my preference.
Driftless Cafe, Viroqua
If you’re heading down toward the Kickapoo Valley to enjoy the awesome caching available, plan to end your day right here. The Driftless Cafe is locally owned, and features a rotating menu of mostly locally produced foods. Soups and sandwich type meals, but often there are dishes with a Mediterrean flavor, too.
The atmosphere is intimate and a little funky,with a tree or two “growing” right out of the floor. The food is delicious and prepared by hand, not a microwave. They often have live music featured in the evenings, and there is even an Irish trad session held here each Thursday.
If you’re longing for your “hippie days,” this is a fun place to eat. Even if you aren’t….it’s a fun place to enjoy good food. Casual atmosphere, you can come as you are. Prices are reasonable, too.
They don’t have a website, but here’s where you can find them.
118 W. Court St
Viroqua, WI 54665
608-637-7778Inn at Cedar Crossing, Sturgeon Bay
When we were staying in Sturgeon Bay last month, we asked our innkeepers to suggest a place for dinner within walking distance, and this is where they sent us.
The Inn has a restaurant attached to it, in an old, beautifully maintained building right downtown. The food was exquisite, the service impeccable and the mood relaxed. We could carry on a conversation and not feel like we were fighting the noise level, which is always a plus. The dinner was not cheap, but we were well fed, with well prepared food, and because they thought Trekkin’s chicken took too long (we didn’t), we each got a free dessert! Casual dress is fine, but I’d say this is the kind of place where you’d want to change into clean clothes before you eat here. Perfect end to a great day of caching in the Door.
Ew, I had to acquiese the other night and go there to eat. Not my favorite, for sure! Also……we are the same age, well, he’s one month older than I am!
As I ponder any of my recommendations, they will be of the “local” variety. I like Olive Garden, but those aren’t hard to find, LOL.
I see that Marc has made some recommendations. I’ll make some more. Although in Trekkin’s mind, the best place to eat is anywhere he has a “two-fer” coupon. 😡
Well Marc, I’ve started listing a couple places. Have you shared any of your favorites? LOL
Oh, I’ve been working on that one myself. About halfway through, I’m kind of stuck in a haystack, LOL.
There are some less impressive pile ups along Seven Mile Creek just outside Altoona. I got some photos along the river the other day.
White Lace Inn, Sturgeon Bay
For the past two years, we’ve planned off season getaways to Door County, staying at the White Lace Inn. If you choose to stay off season, Sunday through Thursday, you will get the rooms for half the price of the high season. We’ve stayed for 70-80 bucks a night. The inn has a main house with several rooms, plus some small homes centered around a garden. The rooms have fireplaces and are appointed as one might expect in such lodging, with private baths. This bed and breakfast has been featured in Midwest Living, and rightfully so.
If you plan your trip to include a Thursday night stay, a local group, Random Orbit, is playing in the main house. Fun time! There are always cherry granola cookies in the cookie jar, and the breakfast is delicious and great fuel for a day of caching fun. Dennis and Bonnie are very knowledgeable about the area and can provide recommendations for anything you might want to do while staying here.
Nelson Cheese Factory, Nelson Wisconsin
Nelson is a small town on the River Road (Highway 35) just across the bridge from Wabasha Minnesota. For a relaxed day of caching fun, ramble the WSQ caches in the area, try zuma’s Gr8 River Road series, and check out the birthplace of Laura Ingalls Wilder in Lund. Plan your route to end us here around lunchtime. You can order good sandwiches to enjoy in the room overlooking the river or the old cold room. When you’re finished eating, pick up some goodies to take home from the well stocked store, or have an ice cream cone for dessert. I’ve been here with birding crews after spending the morning at the Tiffany Wildlife Area (the largest unfragmented area of riverbottom habitat remaining in the state) and for late lunch after doing the many rural WSQs. Keep driving up the river road and you can enjoy the quaint town of Stockholm or Maiden Rock to feed your “artsy fartsy” soul.
Good sandwiches and simple lunch fare, tasty, tasty, tasty! Reasonably priced and unless you fell into the river, you can come as you are and not feel strange. There is a mix of the “mudducks” out for a drive and the folks actually out enjoying the environment here.
Childrens Museum, LaCrosse Wisconsin
In downtown LaCrosse, near the corner of 5th and King, is a wonderful venue for families with young kids. I was resident storyteller for a few years when it first opened and always enjoyed my shows there. My kids enjoyed the museum when they were that age, too. There are three floors of interactive exhibits. The fanciest water table you’ll ever see, which is a model of the river, allowing kids to learn about the lock and dam system. Right now, they are hosting the Grossology traveling exhibit. They regularly host special events, too.
If you’re here tryiing to snap up caches and the kids are getting sick of that, stop in for a couple hours or more. There is an admission charge, of course.
Trempealeau Hotel in Trempealeau Wisconsin.
This location is also the location of a virtual cache, so before dinner, you can snap your photo and claim another smiley. From the outside, this is an unassuming old hotel front in an old river town. Once inside and seated, you will experience excellent cuisine in a relaxed environment. If you like blackened fish or chicken, we can recommend these highly. The food is really cooked, not zapped, served with pride and local foods are used wherever possible.
Throughout the summer, they have music venues on the adjoining lawn. Great times! It’s a place where you can enjoy a great meal, even in your caching clothes. Prices are moderate. I think when we went out for my birthday last fall, we had regular entrees, including my glass of wine, for less than $30.
04/05/2009 at 2:04 pm in reply to: CommanderUSN Sails the Seven Seas, and Scores his 1000th! #1905201Congratulations on joining the Millennium Club. I think you can get your keys to the clubroom from the ecorangers, LOL.
I am curious to know about the kind of ALRs that put this action into motion. I will say we’ve seen a few that made us say “eh” but we followed through. However, the vast majority of those we’ve done in Wisconsin have been just as cheeto said, interesting enough or related enough to the cache find itself to make them worth our time.
Like most who’ve commented on this thread, we will continue our practice of trying to honor the placers’ intent. If that means an ALR, we’ll do it. Long hike, puzzle solve, whatever. We’ll do the work. We enjoy those challenges.
I’m with zuma, though. Yesterday we went to Rochester Minnesota and did our fair share of quick finds, many of which were simply finds. Our favorites of the day were the long hikes in the woods in a county park nearby. Flushing a woodcock near ground zero, seeing my FOY Eastern Wood Pewee, enjoying the solitude of nature…..those are the caching experiences I savor. Nothing mundane there, more like sublime.
Well, there was the matter of that tiny cache 25 feet up a tree in a park. That was fun, too. My grandchildren are just not getting a grandma who sits around in a rocking chair, LOL.
A rather easy solve when you have the right idea about it though…
Mark, Please tell us you’re in computer sciences or something like that! Although now that Trekkin’ “gets” this kind of thing, it’s not as tough as it first seemed.
Yeah, I just read that and it sounds like Well Rounded can stay. We might have to take a look at How Hungry, though. Maybe take the cacher who’s one away from finishing it out to eat and then put the big red line through that puppy. We were going to do a spice of life type one, where you get one of each cache type in one day. Maybe we’ll just let that slide now.
We both agree that for us, we’ll continue to play Marc’s game the way he intended. If the purpose of geocaching is to get you to look at your surroundings, these have done that quite successfully.
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