August 10, 1972In which we take a road trip

Heaven forgive me for not writing sooner. I just haven't been in the mood. I had a very exciting vacation. We went to The Dells, Baraboo and the Milwalkee zoo. At the Dells we first rode the ducks, then we ate at this place called The House of Embers. We stayed at a motel called the Sahara Inn.

The next day we went on the upper and lower Dells. We also went to see the "wonder spot". We stayed at the Sahara Inn that night too.

The next morning we set out to Baraboo. There we saw the Circus World Museum.

Note:
I remember this vacation. I think we went with my parent's friends, the Pasholks, but that could have been another time. Wisconsin Dells is an extremely comercialised and touristy place. It is built around some geographic oddities called the Dells.

Baraboo is even more memorable to me. It was there I began my dislike for clowns. The museum put on a circus show several times daily and we got in late and didn't have a seat so we stood by the opening to the tent. The clown act ended and one of the clowns came over, stood by my dad and said, "Hell of a way to make a living". That in itself is not a reason to dislike clowns, but it ruined the magic for me. Clowns were supposed to be happy or tragic, but not dislike their occupation.