Blogs from Wisconsin, United States, North America - page 5

We are pretty much done with Christmas shopping, except for each other, and since we’re not going anywhere, nor is anyone coming here for the holidays, we are almost idle this holiday season. Strange indeed! But that means we have time to look at other things, and one of the most pressing is making all the arrangements for our spring trip. It has been five months since I last wrote about the Rendezvous trip and we have enough new material to provide an update. Joan has spent days researching the seven states in our target area and has come up with several things she wants to do. Add her ‘Rebellion Items’ to my ‘Bucket List’ National Parks and Monuments and we have a very full and satisfying itinerary. We’ve also mapped a tentative route and included ... read more

Blog 08-16-17 Superior, MN We have been traveling over 300 miles every day and have so far gotten to Superior, WI which is 2 hours short of our destination of Grand Rapids, MN. We just couldn't do the last 2 hours and it's a good thing, it started raining just after we set up for the night. We had a very relaxing evening and plan to have showers and enjoy the rest of the night. We are going to see the Judy Garland museum in Grand Rapids where she was born and spent her youth. The biggest obstacle was going around Chicago and thank heaven Ginnie was driving, the traffic was terrible. I had sweaty palms just trying to follow our route. The interstate from Chicago to Rockford was brand new, they didn't even have the ... read more

The blog will be short today as this is a rest day and we're not doing much. We both intended to sleep in this morning and we had good intentions, but the older I get, the more difficult I find it to sleep later. So we were both up by 6:30. After a quick breakfast, we headed back up to the room to relax and watch a little politics on television. We normally don't watch any television while we're on these road trips, but we both wanted to see this. It only lasted a couple of hours, and we were ready to find something not to strenuous to do for the afternoon. We mailed another package of stuff back home, and decided to tour the Pabst Mansion before tackling the laundry. The Pabst Mansion was the ... read more

I have added the rafting pictures to our blog. A definite highlight of the trip. Click on the link for the "March 8th Argentina rafting-dog with a blog" to see the rest of the pictures! We are settling back in to our normal routines and thinking about what our next destination will be...stay tuned!... read more

Well, it has been over a week now that we have been on our journey, and we have travelled 600 nautical miles. I know in essence, it does not seem very far; you could probably travel that in a vehicle in a day or two, but on the water at our speed, it is quite a distance. And as we often tell people, it is more about the journey than it is the destination. After leaving Harrisville, MI on Wednesday, we dropped anchor that evening in the beautiful little bay of Presque Isle. Our vista was complete with summer cottages (actually, to Lukus and I, they looked more like mansions in comparison to our recent accommodations), a marina with a shop and restaurant, and two lighthouses. The newer of the two is apparently the tallest lighthouse ... read more