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Galena, Illinois: A Trip You Both Can Love

Written by Trevor Meers. Photographs by John Noltner

A husband reluctant about shopping and candlelight heads to Galena for a romantic getaway with his wife -- and finds that the weekend has room for both spa treatments and kayaking.

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Can this weekend be saved?

For better or for worse. For richer or for poorer. For college basketball and for sappy, romantic getaways.

Which of these did I NOT sign up for? Sure, the essence of marriage is riding out the ups and downs together, but inflicting a weekend of candlelight dinners and shopping upon your husband? This must be more than a wife can ask.

Actually, no. My wife, Teri, wants to get away to Galena, a cute-as-a-button river town of 3,500 in northwestern Illinois. This onetime lead-mining town seems perpetually posed for an old Saturday Evening Post cover, and I don't mean the cool ones with kids playing baseball. The place is adorable, but not exactly a guy's dream destination.

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