HeyJaredBlue Collar Scholar
Personal stories and reflections on my former life of crime, my redemption, and my current life as a father and husband.
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Arrival at the Cabin in the Woods (opens the original)
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Hwy 29 cuts across Wisconsin like a wall from east to west. North of the wall is Up North. You take a right into Thorp and you’re there.There’s a Kwik Trip followed by a dozen old brick buildings that make up the quaint downtown. A densely treed section of quiet country neighborhood full of proud-hardworking Americans, then the world opens up to vast farmland. A young Amish couple pass by at a quick trot on the side of the highway in their open-two-seater-buggy, pulled by a large muscular bay, i
Ephraim (opens the original)
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For the last five summers we’ve gone to Washington Island, at the tip of Wisconsin’s peninsula in Door County.*Thursday night - 8/13/2026 - Parkwood Lodge - Fish Creek, WI.We crossed the bridge over the Fox River at Green Bay just before nightfall as a thick fog set in a large doe sprinted across four lanes of highway like Frogger. By the time we crossed into Door County, you could hardly see the tail lights in front of you. We got to the hotel at 9:30 and we promised the girls we’d go to the po
Backbone of the World (opens the original)
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On June 25th, 2026, we set off on a four-night backpack in Glacier National Park.Day 1:Getting our backpacks ready in the motel room, not much bigger than the king-sized bed last night was a pain in the ass.After that, I published a Substack piece on my phone and fell asleep sometime around midnight.This morning, we drove north, just outside the east edge of the park, into what seemed a deeper wilderness. To our right, the Great Plains, to our left, the Rocky Mountains. There was no traffic, the
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