Below is a great story from the New York Times about Lake Okoboji that will be in their Sunday print edition.  I actually just made my maiden voyage to Okoboji this weekend and loved the place.  Anyway, when reading the article, make sure you click on the pictures for a slideshow, you'll see our very own St. Albert Dad & Volleyball Cheer Leader, Bill Kuck, playing his guitar on a dock!

In Iowa, an Oasis of Family Vacations Past

“I remember doing this when I was a kid,” Linda Clarksean said with a laugh as she walked up the steep ramp to the 84-year-old Tipsy House holding the hands of her 5- and 6-year-old grandsons. Battling the tug of gravity through the fun house of impossibly angled rooms, they arrived at the peaked roof for the view of Okoboji, a resort on the Iowa Great Lakes.

Even among Midwestern boosters, the Iowa Great Lakes may seem like a dry joke. Waterfront condos and nightclubs in rural Iowa? But the Okoboji that emerges from a horizon of dark green corn stalks in Northwestern Iowa (within a couple hours’ drive of cities like Omaha, Des Moines and Sioux Falls, S.D.) is less condos-and-clubs and more an oasis of American family vacations past.

There are darting speedboats and languid pontoons sharing the blue water that wake-washes a beach full of sunbathers and wading children. Beyond the beach, several shiny...

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