Sikeston, Mo

Arrived at Town & Country RV park in Sikeston, Mo 8/9/2011

A 50amp pull thru site with cable, sewer and WIFI.
There is a Lambert's Cafe here-famous for Hot Throwed Rolls.
We visited their other location in Foley, Alabama last year.
Wed., Thurs., Fri. and Sat  nights are rodeo. Yahoo!
There are 600 rodeos in the US and Sikeston is in the top 20.
After the rodeo there was a concert with Gretchen Wilson, Big & Rich, etc.

Litchfield, Illnois

We stayed for a week at Honey Bend about 6 miles north of Litchfield, Illinois.
It has about a dozen pull thrus with some 50 amp but mostly 30 amps, no sewer.

It has a dump station near the entrance. Some back-in sites are wooded.

There are 2 lakes with fishing and some pedal boats.

Joliet, Illinois

The Hollywood Casino is in Joliet, Illinois. It has a RV resort for $20-$30 per night.

The Casino has a "Eat the Beast" challenge. A 2 pound cheeseburger with a pound of frys. If you can eat it in one hour it's frre and you get a T shirt. Otherwise, it's a $25 hamburger. Mark did the burger in 47 minutes but couldn't do the fries. The record is 22 minutes.

While in Chicago we visited the Navy pier. There is a free stained glass museum, a huge ferris wheel and a swing thing. (which I went on, of course)

As seen from the ferris wheel.

Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Harbour Village Resort, located about 8 miles north of  Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
There is an art festival at Egg harbor about 20 miles north with an auction of about 40 paintings done in an hour or so. One day we rode our scooters with our friends Dick and Jo to a ferry and went to Washington island in Lake Michigan.

Wisconsin Dells

This is the water park capitol of the world. Many are indoors. There also is a 6000' zip line and many roller coaster type rides. We are staying at the Greenblue resort. It is a membership timeshare resort with 2 golf courses and a chair lift for skying.  There are lots of very nice cabins and also RV parking sites. We went to a sales presentation where we found out that we could buy for only $30,000. Then there is annual maintenance, taxes, etc. Since we are members of Coast-To-Coast Rvs, we stay for $10 per night. To the left is one of the indoor pools at Greenblue.

Lots of "duck" rides.(World War II amphibious craft)

Upside down White House.

Trojan Horse

Moosejaw.

As I was loading Carols scooter, the wheels went off the rail and it landed upside down, but fortunately I was not underneath it. I guess my dirt bike experience helped. But I estimate at least $3000 in tupperware damage. The windshield shattered of course.

Walworth, Wisconsin

This is in Walworth, Wisconsin at Miles Hass and Carolyn Caldwell's home. Our rig is on the left. Jim & Marilyn Felts (friends from Bay Bayou in Tampa, Florida) are on right. Hardly anyone has room for 1 motorcoach in their driveway, much less two!!  Miles installed 2-50 amp outlets for our rigs. Very nice!

 They really know how to make a bonfire in Wisconsin. Just get one dumptruck of firewood, a Kubota to unload it and then an all night fire.  The bonfire was in honor of our friend Ken Caldwell who lost his battle with cancer in March of this year. 

We couldn't get very close due to the heat!

                                                                    

Below is the tail end of the pool party - bathing suits optional - at 5:30 AM-the next morning, still going strong.  This is after all night partying (the younger generation!) with long rides cross-country in golf carts and real fireworks. (Not the sissy city fireworks) Real big bangs! Just behind the fire you see a metal grill cover against the plywood. With a large firecracker (said to be a 1/4 stick of dynamite), it would fly about 100 feet straight up! We won't mention the blood involved in all the good fun.  In the background is a milk cattle farm with 350 head on active duty. There is a new dairy moving here from California with 5000 milkers plus 30,000 cows in the rotation. That's a lot of milk and you know......

I took a ride (golf cart) about half a mile with Miles to see about a dozen Elk in a double fenced area.

                                                                      

Sunday morning on our way to Menards in Beloit, WI., we saw this amazing sight! A pickup in a tree!  Wow!  These Wisconsin folks have a lot of tricks up their sleeves!                                            . 

2011 Summer trip

June 1 is the start. We had planned on 18 months on the road, but with the price of diesel, we have cut back to only 4000 miles. We will pull the trailer with 2 scooters to Anderson, SC. Then Bruce (red line) will ride his scooter via the Tail of the Dragon (312 turns in 11 miles), then 6 days in Chaplin, KY with Dennis Hall and then on to Ada,OH. (about 700 miles total) Carol will continue to Pennsylvania for several weeks with friends. We will meet up in Loudenville Ohio at Wallyworld, then to Columbus, OH and then go to Wisconson.

 

Hope to hit Memphis and New Orleans on the trip back.





This hill climber was on display at the National races in Lima, Ohio

This is the 1/2 mile National race in Lima Ohio which I enjoyed. Note they go over 100mph and have no brakes. (end of June)

Loudonville, home of Charles Kettering who founded Delco, and was head of research

for General Motors for 27 years from 1920 to 1947.  There are several campgrounds in the area and a car show the last week of June.  Also lots of river rafting and Mohican state park.

Our rig at Wally World, just south of Loudonville.

Look below where they wanted to put us. Maybe space for a tent!

On Thursday, June 31 we rode the scooters to Sandusky and to Cedar Point. We didn't go in as it was late in the day. In the first month of our travels, I have put 2000 miles on my scooter!

A fifth wheel camper?

Don't try this at home kids!