{"id":2759,"date":"2014-07-30T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T17:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2014-07-30T11:19:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T17:19:54","slug":"wisconsin-then-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wisconsin-then-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin then home"},"content":{"rendered":"

I left London, Ontario on Monday, June 30th en route\u00a0to Chicago where I would see my sister Kitt and her daughter and son-in-law, Stef and Eric. I arrived at their place late in the afternoon; soon\u00a0after\u00a0we enjoyed\u00a0a good dinner, cooked by Eric, and good conversation. My thanks to Stef, Eric, and Kitt for their hospitality!<\/p>\n

Tuesday AM I cycled north\u00a0toward Madison where I was to meet with brother-in-law Larry at a restaurant in Waunakee, a small town that is a bit north\u00a0and west of Madison. The restaurant rendezvous was\u00a0closed for the duration of\u00a0a downtown street building project, but we met and ate at a bar\/restaurant just across the street. Larry and I had a good talk for a few hours, after which \u00a0I\u00a0rode\u00a040 minutes to\u00a0visit, and stay the night, with friends of ours in Daleyville. (We lived in Daleyville for a few\u00a0years.)<\/p>\n

Willis and Judy Volden, the friends I would be staying with, invited me\u00a0to a community concert as the evening’s entertainment. Their daughter-in-law was a clarinetist with the band. Sounded good to me! There is nothing like a community concert in the summer. This one, the last of 5 for the summer season, featured a variety of music including military service anthems, songs from Showboat, and ending with a Sousa march. Good stuff, and a reminder of when I was in band and playing in summer concerts in Greenwood. We had a delay waiting for a storm to pass, but once that happened the band was off and running. It made for a very pleasant\u00a0evening.<\/p>\n

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Community concert in Wisconsin<\/p><\/div>\n

After we returned to the Volden home Judy served\u00a0a delicious dessert of award-winning cheesecake baked by the Voldens’ 11 year old \u00a0granddaughter. It was really good!<\/p>\n

The next morning I awoke to a steady light rain so held off heading to my mother’s house in central Wisconsin, my next destination. The Voldens and I\u00a0\u00a0spent the \u00a0extra time in more conversation and enjoying an excellent breakfast served by Judy. Eventually the rain quit and I started on my way. Given the rain and the time of year, I\u00a0decided to take back roads a bit of the way; the greenery and rolling hills made pleasant scenery as I \u00a0rolled along.<\/p>\n

I arrived in Greenwood by late afternoon and soon settled in for a couple of days worth of visiting and doing a few jobs for Mom. The biggest of these was cutting and splitting some fire wood, which I did mostly on the following day. Mom pulled out some CDs of trips\u00a0she and Dad had taken to Alaska and Hawaii several years past\u00a0and those were quite entertaining.<\/p>\n

On July 4th\u00a0I took a short ride over to Bloomer, Wisconsin to see Craig’s and Dianne’s lake shore lot. They have a very nice piece of land and have already begun improving it. Craig took me to lunch and gave me a tour of the area. As much as I like the mountains, lakes are also\u00a0quite scenic\u00a0and I think Craig and Dianne will have an excellent\u00a0retirement along the lake. I did take a few photos\u00a0during this visit:<\/p>\n

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The Paroubek lot is on a lake inlet<\/p>\n

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Craig while he was taking me for a boat ride on his lake.<\/p><\/div>\n

Craig took this photo of me getting ready to leave:<\/p>\n

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Jerry getting ready to leave the Paroubek lot<\/p><\/div>\n

The last few days had been filled\u00a0with visiting and talking. However, on July 5th I headed home to Colorado, and that meant a couple of long, hard riding days on the road again. As on the way to the rally,\u00a0I spent a return night in Lincoln, Nebraska, then back to Colorado\u00a0on Sunday, July 6th. While I should have taken a day\u00a0off to recuperate, I didn’t, so it was back\u00a0to the office the next morning, the 7th.<\/p>\n

It was quite a trip\u20265,122 miles over 13 days\u2026and I was able to include visits with\u00a0friends\u00a0and\u00a0family, ride with fellow motorcycle club riders, see some new sites, and revisit Niagara Falls. I did get rained on a couple times but had no physical or mechanical problems the entire trip. Biggest headache\u00a0was traffic; going through Toronto at rush hour and Chicago [anytime] reminds me again of why I will never be a city person.<\/p>\n

My next post will be about our Sanderling lot and what has transpired there in the past few work weekends.<\/p>\n

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I left London, Ontario on Monday, June 30th en route\u00a0to Chicago where I would see my sister Kitt and her daughter and son-in-law, Stef and Eric. I arrived at their place late in the afternoon; soon\u00a0after\u00a0we enjoyed\u00a0a good dinner, cooked by Eric, and good conversation. My thanks to Stef, Eric, and Kitt for their hospitality! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-jers-toys","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}