Point To Ponder

“Why don’t we go for a drive?”

It was an innocent question from my wife after I had just vented over editorial issues with the paper, and my first thought was that – yeah, I needed to get away.

“We could go up to Wisconsin and hit Target for some Charmin, stop by a winery I want to see and when was the last time you were served inside a restaurant? We could go to the steak house where Catie and Jake had their rehearsal dinner.”

With a plan formed, we hopped into my wife’s car – never dreaming we were about to participate in our own version of a Chevy Chase movie.

On our way up into Wisconsin,...