Galena, Illinois: A Trip You Both Can Love | Midwest Living

Galena, Illinois: A Trip You Both Can Love

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.

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.

Galena/Jo Daviess County Convention and Visitors Bureau

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