I had a pretty fun vacation, overall. The weather was positively gorgeous, save for a few days where it was really hot. I got to see family members I haven't seen in at least 2 years, which was nice. It was cool to see some different kinds of geography and wildlife again, while Georgia is on average pretty damn gorgeous, Wisconsin is its own kind of beautiful. The flatness and orderliness of everything is kinda uncanny to be honest, coming from the rolling hills and winding roads of the Piedmont, but still...beautiful.

Since my degeneracy era began in the period between my last visit and now, whenever we went to a tourist attraction I scoped out the workers/other patrons to see how many cute girls there were, mostly as an experiment to study the difference in gene pools between here and back home, and aside from a tour guide at a cave who, while pretty attractive, had a horrendously irritating voice...I largely came up empty. I noticed that the people here in general are not that good-looking in general. Maybe when I get home I'll notice the same thing, but man, there were more wide foreheads and long noses than you could shake a stick at.

So yeah, shallow critique of random strangers' appearances aside, let's go through everything, or at least as much as I can remember.

We drove up (which took 2 days and sucked ass) and arrived at around 8 o'clock. I got to see my grandmother and her dog (who rocks). We hung around there for a bit. While we were there my cousin (who had transitioned into being male since I last saw...him) visited a few times, though I didn't talk to him much, partially because he just gets along with my little brother really well so he was occupied with him, partially because he's just kind of cringy and really into all sorts of normie shit like TikTok and whatnot, and partially because of the whole different gender thing which, while I'm perfectly fine with it, it doesn't OFFEND me or anything, it just made the idea of talking to him sorta awkward, and me being the social coward that I am, I just largely ignored him, though it didn't seem like he really minded, he was mostly occupied with playing Roblox with my brother. It was remarkable to see how effective the hormones he's been using have been, his voice is much deeper than how I remember it being the last time I saw him and has that distinct "male" sound to it, and he's actually managed to sprout a bit of a beard, which, I'm gonna be honest, didn't know was even possible, but apparently it is! Which I think is rad for him, that modern medicine allows him to live how he truly views himself.

Anyways, moving on. (sorry I talked for so long about my cousin, living where I do, that is, a sub-10,000 population podunk town in Georgia, I've never really met a trans person before (or really any LGBTQ people for that matter, save for like 2 gay guys in high school that I've talked to a total of like 20 times), at least to my knowledge, so it was a new experience for me). We arrived on July 2nd. On the 3rd /4th I think we didn't do much aside from visit the Summer Farmer's Market in the middle of Madison (which is a dope ass city btw) and eat Mexican with my great aunt, who's always a hoot. I think this was also when my cousin visited for the first time, maybe my uncle as well. On the 6th we went to the cave I mentioned earlier. It was this sick ass limestone cave that was super cold. I grapped a ton of pics, here are some highlights.

On the 6th we went to a geology/rock museum, which was super cool as I used to be really into rock collecting. They had some absolutely NUTTY samples, so I also got some sweet pictures there.

And then we ate lunch at this pizza chain that only really exists in the Midwest, and while the pizza was dogshit the restaurant itself was...interestingly decorated, to say the least (also it had a really cool arcade with tons of classic machines like Vs. Mario Bros., DK Jr., House of the Dead 2, Primal Rage, etc. I couldn't focus on the mediocre pizza because I was busy gawking at history lol).

We usually go there every time we visit WI because my dad is really nostalgic for it, but...like, the food is ass, man. Tears up your innards, too.

On the 7th we went to a botanical garden (or a "Bionicle garden" as my brother put it) and it was pretty lame ngl, but at least there was this golden building and an AC-130 flew overhead. Combined with the fact that we were all tired and hungry as fuck, this was...one if the shittier trips, to say the least.

After that I think we went to a cheese shop and petting zoo, which was fun. They had a house full of cats and kittens, which pretty much validated the whole day.

I think the 8th was a chill day, we just sat around the house. I think later in the day we had a fire out back using the fire ring my dad made for my grandmother, and hung out with my great aunt, uncle, and cousin's brother, which was fun.

Yesterday we visited my grandfather and went to the Discovery Center in Milwaukee, a sort of cool science museum. It was nice to see him, he's much more...charmingly old than my grandmother, who is unusually hip and modern for her age. Milwaukee was beautiful too, the wind coming from Lake Michigan was *mwah* beautiful.

And here I am today, on the tenth. Currently on the way home. I did some other stuff computer wise during the whole time, I bought a bunch of games on Steam courtesy of the Summer Sale, and found some good titles like Rhythm Doctor, The Messenger, Hell is Other Demons, and some Behemoths titles like Castle Crashers and BB Theater. I replayed Ultrakill again (which is soooooooo fucking good, please play it), this time trying to go through the game and get P-ranks on all the levels. I managed to get them all and fought Minos Prime, which was probably one of the best and hardest boss fights I've ever played. That game is seriously goated as fuck.

But...yeah. That's been my vacation in Wisconsin. I probably forgot a ton of stuff, but it doesn't matter. I should get back to drawing/content creation soon now that I actually have privacy.

Thanks for reading.