Carla: Delete as appropriate: “I am astounded / amazed / bored / exasperated to find that the Holden Pilsworths have written yet ANOTHER instalment of their weekly blog”. This week the theme is lakes and also escape; from heat, flatness and thunderstorms. We loved Madison, which was an oasis of right-thinking in the mid-western desert (vegetarian food, organic supermarkets, green concern etc.), and it had four lakes, including Mendota the one Al, George and Ruby swum in, but we needed to get away from the daily temperatures of over 100F and the constant rumble of thunder in the distance. We drove north on Thursday afternoon with the idea of getting as close to Canada as we could without actually going across the border. If we put just a lake (Superior) between us and cooler climes then
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