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Published: October 8th 2008
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Cody and Vinnie
the autographed pic. Love it when a plan comes together. This set of blogs is another Group Vacation. Our 2008 trip was from KC up and around Lake Superior into Canada and then a slight detour to Milwaukee for a few days for the 25th and 105th celebrations for HOG and Harley Davidson. The blogs are broken into sections, each being a day in the trip. The first blog of this trip is here
08 Group Vacation Day 1 - to Iowa DAY 9 Saturday
The other head down to the crowds and mess. But I decided that I will use my time to run my city parks tour. So off I go for the 4 presidental parks. The very first one I can’t find a sign for. All the other I find signs identifying them, and at Washington Park there is an awesome statue of Washington. There is no good way to get a picture of this statue, so I just block a lane and do it.
I had to wait until 11PM to get my picture from Walgreens. I love the Walgreen on-line photo shop thing. I can download my pics to their site. Crop and then order my pics from any walgreens I select. I show up at 11AM and get my
George Washington Statue
This was by Washington Park. 8x10 that waiting for me.
I go back to the hotel and wait for the Marcia and Jerry, but after acouple calls we decide to just meet at Suburban HD. They want to go with me to the Presidential Race sites I was going to find after getting the signature. Anyway off to suburban I go and there is Vinny and Cody patiently talking with folks and messing with their gear in their booths.
They were happy to sign the photo and as Vinny looks at it he tells Cody it looks like he is pinching off a loaf. That is slang for having a bowel movement.
I wait and shortly Marcia and Jerry show up, we shop the booths. I actually find a couple things that I can not live without. And a patch that Carol, a friend of mine can not live without. She is a lady in the American Legion Auxillary unit I belong to. She is our Poppy chairman. When we had our Poppy Poker Ride, we had custom patches made to honor veterans for each rider. Although she did not ride she ordered a patch, the name was her childhood friend who
Cute boat
I don't know what its used for but it was cute. had died in Vietnam. When I saw the big back patch of the Vietnam wall with text of not ever forgetting I thought of her. I called her to let her know what I had found and she wanted me to pick it up for her.
Jerry had been looking for a bike wash since we came to Milwaukee and low and behold yup they have one here and the girls are wearing the required bikinis. Jerry has both the bikes washed.
We left Suburban and headed to Jackson county. And Washington county, I had tried to find Washington county the day before to no avail, but I had better location today and found it pretty easy. The ride today was again nice. It was so nice being out in the country on quite lanes.
Jackson county also had a Jackson city and inside the city was a Jackson park and outside Jackson was Jackson state park. Right down the road 3 miles was Polk. What a gold mine. By the time we are in Polk, Jerry is telling us he wants to be back at the motel, so we head back. We are there by 5PM.
Jerry's bike being washed
Finally he found some girls to wash his bike. They were not from WI but AZ and FL. They came up just to raise money with this bike wash. It went to a womans shelter (in AZ I believe). I am ready to just sit and relax but Jerry wants to play ping pong and Marcia wants to swim. I hadn’t used the swim suit this trip so I am later going down but I head down to swim. Jerry and I play a game of pool and he and Marcia play some pool and ping pong. Then we decided to eat. The café is empty. They have a soup salad and potato bar for not much so that is what I get. Good Stuff. After a long day its back to the room to pack and hit the sack.
Here are links to all the blogs for this trip:
1.
08 Group Vacation Day 1 - to Iowa 2.
08 Group Vacation Day 2 - John Wayne, Albert the Bull and Freedom Rock 3.
08 Group Vacation Day 3 - Buddy Holly, SPAM and the Joint 4.
08 Group Vacation Day 4 - Aerostitch and Canada 5.
08 Group Vacation Day 5 - Canada and Mackinac Bridge 6.
08 Group Vacation Day 6 - Yoppers, Pasties and outa gas John 7.
08 Group Vacation Day 7 - HOG 25th are you kidding me?? 8.
08 Group Vacation Day 8 - Vinnie and Cody from American Chopper 9.
08 Group Vacation Day 9 - Last day of the 105th Anniversary Party 10.
08 Group Vacation Day 10 - Heading Home 11.
08 Group Vacation Day 11 - Snake Alley, Worldest Largest Pecan
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