Historic Waterways; Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Historic Waterways; Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers
                                            
                            by Reuben Gold Thwaites
                            
                                22 Feb, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        There is a generally accepted notion that a brief summer vacation, if at all obtainable in this busy life of ours, must be spent in a flight as far afield as time will allow; that the popular resorts in the mountains, by the seaside, or on the margin
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                                                There is a generally accepted notion that a brief summer vacation, if at all obtainable in this busy life of ours, must be spent in a flight as far afield as time will allow; that the popular resorts in the mountains, by the seaside, or on the margins of the upper lakes must be sought for rest and enjoyment; that neighborhood surroundings should, in the mad rush for change of air and scene, be left behind. The result is that your average vacationist—if I may be allowed to coin a needed word—knows less of his own State than of any other, and is inattentive to the delights of nature which await inspection within the limits of his horizon. Less