Author Caleb Westphal

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. A stream of light flashed into a cornfield, emanating from the Amish buggy in front of me. I...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Three days after the midterm elections, I headed to American Serb Hall (5101 W. Oklahoma A...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. In the past, when I've thought of noteworthy history about the village of Grafton, I've th...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns of The Great War ...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Fish frys tend to be served at a few types of locations: taverns, sit-down restaurants, su...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Growing up in Fond du Lac, I wasn't brought to Milwaukee too often as a child. My only rec...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Oftentimes a restaurant is an oasis, and a fish fry is a respite from the storms of life. ...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. I may have eaten a fish fry on every Friday for the past 245 weeks, but I have also gone t...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. At 4 o'clock this past Friday, I found myself seated—not at a restaurant waiting for a Fri...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. You've probably had similar thoughts. You've driven past a place that looked intriguing, a...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Villa Vista, Embassy, Skyway, Oakwood Lodge—the motels zipped past me as I headed south on...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. The destination was California—a trip to explore Los Angeles, and to visit San Ysidro alon...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. "Oh, we come on the ship they call the Mayflower We come on the ship that sailed the moon ...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. As I looped around the back parking lot of A.J. O'Brady's (N88 W16495 Main St., Menomonee Fa...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Fish frys aren't always convenient. In an ideal world they would be the centerpiece of eve...

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Do you remember last week, when I almost died in the heat at Summerfest, while trying all ...