HEADING TO THE HIGHLANDS

While many of us hit the road in search of new places and experiences, sometimes the most rewarding experiences can be found in the places that feel somehow familiar.

Jenny Wisniewski

Where I come from, there's a destination with vague boundaries, dense woods, and lakes aplenty. It is the Northwoods of Wisconsin, a place Wisconsinites fondly refer to as “Up North.” Mainers have an “Up North,” too, I learned recently while on a trip to the state with my 16-year-old son, Ryan. They call it “The Maine Highlands.” I definitely felt déjà vu the first time I went out on Maine's Moosehead Lake; the spot looked and felt so much like home. There's a good reason for that— though Maine and Wisconsin are many miles apart, both are dense with similar forest. Moosehead Lake, Maine's largest body of fresh water, is encircled by dense birch, evergreen, and maple trees. However, the lake differs from any in Wisconsin in one dramatic way—it…

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