Peace and (relative) Quiet Among the Cranes
My very first blog post for this particular blog was about driving the I-90/I-94 corridor to my hometown of Cleveland, and in all those subsequent years of driving that route, I had never stopped at the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. To be fair to me, I've only just recently become interested in any bird aside from eagles; once this interest took hold of me, I became determined to visit this place, just off of Highway 12, which is just off of I-90/I-94. I am writing this in early October and the location will close down for the winter at the end of October and re-open in May, so if you can't make it in the next few weeks, put it on your 2023 calendar to stop by on your way to Chicago or the Dells. After I made my way to the free parking lot, I paid my entrance fee (as of this writing, they do give a discount for AAA membership, but since the fee is only $12.50 for adults, and it was just little old me, I didn't take advantage. The staff was outsidde...