North to Humbird, WI

On Wednesday, we drove up US-12, I-90/94, I-94, and US-12 to Humbird, WI, where we stopped at our 7th Harvest Host location, Scholtze Family Beef/Farms (https://www.scholzefamilybeef.com/) near Humbird, WI. 

Before we left Baraboo and the Quartzite campground, Miss Kitty had found a new place to get some sun!

We had "lost" her for a few minutes before we realized where she had settled!

Also before pulling out, we drove down to the North Shore beach area...

... it had been cloudy and overcast most of the time we were at Devil's Lake State Park...

...but Wednesday was beautiful, and there were a LOT of people out enjoying the beach!

We only had about a 2 hour drive to make it to the Scholtze Family Farm... so after dumping our tanks at the campground and filling our fresh tank with water, we headed out for our relatively short journey.

When we got to the farm, we weren't certain where to go, but soon a youngster came to us and said his dad would be coming soon. The boy and his dad drove their Gator over to another part of the farm...

... guiding us to the place for us to park.

The location is right in the middle of corn fields,

... next to a pond - well away from the area where there is a lot of activity.

It is a beautiful location.

Very peaceful! You can also see our solar panels on top of Gracie!

We are really enjoying our Harvest Host stays! (https://harvesthosts.com/) Definitely preferable to stays at Walmart. When I had looked at joining Harvest Hosts in the past, I felt that it would not be worth our while because we would normally do one-night boondock stays on our way from one place to another, and Walmarts were normally right by the highway and easy to get in-and-out. While we have had to go a little further, in some cases, to stop at a Harvest Host, the locations are so much nicer. 

One of the concepts with Harvest Host is that we will spend $20-30 to purchase products or services from the host. Here we plan to purchase some beef, and maybe some cheese curds, from the Farm Store on Thursday before leaving.

A funny story: I had located a Harvest Host location in Rockford, IL, thinking we may need it if we were going straight from Amboy, IL to Madison, WI (we ended up staying at Paul Wolff and meeting up with friends). The host was a funeral home and cremation services... I am not certain what services or products we could have purchased from them! Other Harvest Host members who have stayed there have indicated that it is a pleasant and quiet stay, but not what they might have purchased.

This reminded me of another "funny" story... at least, it is funny looking back. When Dwayne passed away, knowing he was to be cremated, I shopped for urns on Amazon. I ended up purchasing two urns that were just alike, one for him and one (eventually) for me. I found it odd (funny?) that there were some urns on Amazon that had "subscribe and save" prices (if you sign up to purchase certain products on a regular basis (1 a month, 6 every 3 months, or whatever) you get a better price -- think like toilet paper or supplements). But, just *who* would sign up for subscribe and save on a cremation urn? A serial killer?

There was also marketing gone wrong from Amazon -- for a while after my purchase, they recommended other urns I may wish to buy, based on my purchase history. I can understand how their marketing routine would have thought that was appropriate, but, that's one of the times that there should be an override in the programming.