My plans for Labor Day were much different then what actually happen. My Plan was to spend the weekend at Perndales Falls State Park. My brother who lives in WI had a terrible accident with a backhoe and nearly lost his life. My younger daughter Blythe (21) and I decided we would make the trip to see family and also have some mother daughter time. Blythe has just learn to drive standard and has never towed anything so the driving was up to me, she was navigator.
Here is our route, the first leg of the trip took us to Omaha to visit friends, we had to detour because of flooding around the Mississippi River which added an extra 150 miles. We only stayed a night and part of a day because we were in a hurry to get to WI. Unfortunately all the pictures taken on this part of the trip were lost due to techical problems.
This is the old homestead for the family, (I only lived here a short time before moving on).
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| Old Homestead in WI |
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| Piggly Wiggly |
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Fallen Tree became Flying Angel
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After we visited my brother in the Hosptial, we did a little site seeing.
How different from the H.E.B. food chain we are use to.
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| New Glarus, WI |
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| New Glarus, WI Visitor Welcome are Grass Design |
Such a contrast to the drought area in South Texas. The green almost hurts your eyes.
New Glarus is a wonderful little town, mainly of Swiss heritage and they maintain many old customs such as yodeling contests, polka dancing and GREAT BEER.
My brother is a miracle man, before we left the hosptial had sent him home to recoup, even though his road to recoverly will be a long one, his prognsis is good.
Next Stop Chicago we stayed out the outskirts and took the train into downtown. Blythe had not been on a computer train and it had been a long time since I was. In lived in Chicago from birth to 1972, and site seeing was very nostalgic for me. We stopped at old haunts and new places.
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| Union Station Chicago |
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| PICASSO Chicago |
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Reflection in ATT Cloud- Chicago |
Second Day we road in so that Blythe could see what REAL TRAFFIC was like. Visited my old HighSchool, I did not remember I was a WILDCAT, no A/C schools back then and you could here the crowd roar from Wrigley Field when there was a hit.
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| My Highschool for Freshman and Sophmore years. |
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| Home of the Cubs of Course |
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| 1/2 a block from Wrigley Field, Third floor street front window was my room.. |
Sometime after the family moved to WI, Wrigley Field had lights installed and night games. The whole street became a series of Sports Bars, Night Clubs and Resturants. We had a Lucky's special for lunch, "corn beef, swiss cheese, oinions and fries"
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| Lucky's across the Street from the old house |
More story and pictures to come, still organizing pics...ran out of time for today.
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| Lake Michigan on a Windy day in the Windy City. |
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| Memphis KOA in the Morning |
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| Next to office at Memphis KOA |
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| Entering LA |
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| Wonderful see food New Orleans |
