Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brian Holtebeck and I enter the historic Eureka Lock near the end of our kayak journey on the Fox River between Berlin and Eureka.

It was about midday on Saturday when the gates of the Upper Fox River's Eureka Lock slowly opened, and we paddled our kayaks in. I felt the little buzz I get when I'm doing something cool, quirky and ...