Bayfield

So we're gonna be doing a retreat that is called Worthy and Well, and it is this vision that Elizabeth and Ha- and I had, um, to put together.

We're gonna be in, at Wild Rice Retreats in Bayfield.

Daniella, I know [laughs] I've sent it to you before.

I know Wild Rice is on your radar.

I'm actually really excited.

We've never really done anything that's, like, Midwest on, like, a bigger scale, like when we do, um, our retreats, Daniella, so I'm looking forward to having something that's...

Even though Bayfield is probably, like, a maybe, like, a four-hour drive from my house, um, I'm just excited to do something in the Midwest and do something that feels, like, a little bit more local.

We don't have a lot of, like, retreat centers necessarily in Minnesota, but this one is really spectacular.

Got it.

Um, so, uh, we were in, uh, Bayfield on vacation.

We were at a brewery, literally just the two of us there.

I went to the bathroom.

Uh, several presidents came up to fly-fish the Brule River, so there's great fishing.

I think one of the most interesting things about fishing is there are still commercial fishing tugs that go out and set gill nets for lake trout and whitefish, uh, a- and bring them back to Bayfield.

There's places in Bayfield where you can, uh, sit out on the dock and order whitefish or lake trout and have a meal and sit there and watch the fishing boats come in, the same very boats that caught the fish that you're eating.

Hmm.

That sounds perfect to me.

Tell me about that town because is that the town, if you didn't wanna necessarily camp out and be rugged, you would stay in that town and then see the Apostle Islands, Bayfield?

Yes.

Bay- Bayfield, Wisconsin, is a wonderful small town, about five hundred and seventy-three residents.

It's on Amazon, indie bookstores.

We're working with a bookstore called Honest Dog Books in Bayfield, Wisconsin.

So they're honestdogbooks.com. And if you buy from them, you get like some little extra stickers and paw prints and things with it.

We are also going on a book tour.

[laughs] Now, uh, uh, I think I asked you this earlier in the week, but I don't remember your answer.

Did you get over to Bayfield? I think you said no, you didn't get over there-

We did not

... for the apple festival.

And then for five years, I was the first director of a group called Wisconsin's Green Fire, and, and that's a group that promotes environmental conservation policy here at home in Wisconsin.

And, uh, relocated to Bayfield County about five years ago.

I didn't plan to run for Congress, Pierce, but it turned out that two years ago, I, uh, I came to realize that we need Congress to do its job.

I've just been, like way too many of us, far, badly disappointed by the current US Congress and, and how many things they're not doing that we need them to do right now.

Mm-hmm.

If you make something a national park, it gets on the radar of millions of people who decide they gotta go see it.

And every single community that's a gateway community to the Apostle Islands, including Bayfield, Washburn, Cornucopia, as well as the Red Cliff Tribe, which is a Chippewa tribe that has interest in the Apostles, have all opposed this bill.

And Representative Tiffany didn't talk to any of them before he decided it was the right thing to introduce it.

Now, does Ashland

participate? Do they participate at all in the Apple Festival that Bayfield puts on?

Well, it takes place in Bayfield, but Ashland is nearby.

So they

get some offshoot from it.

Oh, yeah.

But nonetheless, they did get some rainfall that they really needed.

It did spoil some of the fun at Bayfield to some degree, but the Bayfield Apple Fest, my understanding, went off, and it was good crowds.

Apple.

It's the Apple Festival in Bayfield this weekend.

The big Apple Fest going on in Bayfield.

We talked a little bit about the botched execution, and now we're using taxpayer money to keep her on life support.

Let me, let me get this straight, just so I understand this clearly, Andrew.