TELEGRAM FROM (FARTHER) UP NORTH

OCTOBER 4, 2019 – TRAVELED NORTH FROM THE RED CABIN PARENTHESIS WHICH IS ALREADY NORTH COMMA BUT EVERYTHING IS DIRECTIONALLY RELATIVE PARENTHESIS STOP DROVE THROUGH ELK COUNTRY AND DOWN MANY TWISTING GRAVEL ROADS THROUGH VAST CHEQUAMEGON NATIONAL FOREST STOP DESPITE LOW CLOUDS, MIST AND RAIN WE HIKED SOME STOP OUR REWARD ON ONE TREK WAS A MAGNIFICENT, SECLUDED WATERFALLS STOP DISCOVERED OVER A DOZEN AMAZING WIDE-ANGLE MURALS ON SIDES OF OLD BUILDINGS IN ASHLAND ALL DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY TWO LOCAL WOMEN A QUARTER CENTURY AGO AND STILL IN GREAT SHAPE EM DASH THE MURALS SEMI COLON NOT SURE ABOUT THE WOMEN STOP VISITED NORTHERN LAKES NATIONAL VISITOR CENTER OUTSIDE ASHLAND STOP A GREAT RESOURCE FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE HUMAN AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE AREA STOP DROVE ON TO WASHBURN ON WEST SIDE OF CHEQUAMEGON BAY STOP SCRUFFY STOP CONTINUED NORTH ALONG THE BAY TO A B AND B PARENTHESIS SEE PHOTO OF INTERIOR PARENTHESIS CALLED PINEHURST IN THE OLD MANSION OF R STOP D STOP PIKE EM DASH A LOCAL LUMBER COMMA BANKING COMMA REAL ESTATE ROBBER BARON WHO PLAYED MONOPOLY HERE DURING THE GILDED AGE STOP ATE A DELECTABLE DINNER AT THE FAT RADISH EM DASH A FARM TO TABLE RESTAURANT IN PICTURESQUE BAYFIELD COMMA AS WISCONSIN APOSTROPHE S VERSION OF MINNESOTA APOSTROPHE S GRAND MARAIS PARENTHESIS ON THE NORTH SHORE OF LAKE SUPERIOR PARENTHESIS PREPARES FOR ITS ANNUAL APPLE FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND STOP I DID NOT BRING MY LAPTOP COMMA THUS THIS TELEGRAM STOP IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 119 AND WANT TO KNOW WHY ALL THE STOPS AND OTHER SPELLED OUT PUNCTUATION IN A TELEGRAM COMMA YOU WILL NEED TO GOOGLE STOP IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 50 AND WANT TO KNOW WHAT A TELEGRAM WAS COMMA YOU WILL NEED TO GOOGLE THAT TOO

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