Texas is Big! Illinois, not so much.

This past weekend Chris and I traveled to the state of Wisconsin to play a round of disc golf at Fox River Park. This disc golf course has to be the best, most well-maintained, and greenest disc golf park I've ever seen in my life. It was gorgeous! The greeenery of it was stunning! Interestingly, even though it was in a park called Fox River Park, there was no river or any water hazards on the course at all. There were so many gorgeous trees and the grass was so lush. I just couldn't believe how lovely it all was. The course kicked my ass - it was the hills that did me in. Man, disc golf in Illinois (and Wisconsin so far) is really into elevation changes. Up an down hills the whole time.

Also, this course was full of "real" disc golfers - the competitive kind that I'm used to seeing in Texas all the time, as opposed to the more recreational golfers I've seen in Illinois so far at other courses. These guys were all, first of all, guys! Secondly, they all had full bags of discs. Well we saw a few with only one disc but they were the minority. They seemed to be in groups of four to a card. And they were good.

The course's amenities included score cards with a detailed map on the back for each 9-hole course ~ the front and back nine of the Gray Fox 18-hole course and the additional 9-hole separate Red Fox Course that we did not play as it was short and only rated a 2. Gray Fox was rated a 4. The park had indoor, clean restroom facilities in two locations, picnic benches throughout the course for resting, trash bins at nearly every tee, concrete tee-pads all marked with which basket location of the two basket locations on every hole was pinned in, lengths for every hole marked on the tee as well as the scorecards, and plentiful parking.

We also passed by a place called Wilmont Mountain that looks like it will be a blast in the winter time. However, during the summer months they have a flea market every weekend so that is also very cool.

The thing that made this excursion so exciting to us was that it takes less than two hours to get to another state. That doesn't happen in Texas very much unless you're near a border already which most metropolitan areas are not. From our home in the CHI-burbs we can access Wisconsin, Indiana, & Michigan very easily and quickly ~ in two hours or less. For a bit more of a drive, say 5 hours (equivalent to the trip from Houston to Dallas), we could also visit Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, and Ohio ~ All unexplored territory!! This is most exciting and very new and different for us!

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