Tuesday, June 25, 2007 Our final and maybe most adventurous day of the trip. We left Franklin and drove to Murfreesboro. There we visited a Civil War battlefield. Then we drove to Lynchburg and toured the Jack Daniels Distillery. That was a truly entertaining tour. I was pleasantly surprised with that visit. From Lynchburg, we [...]
Monday, June 25, 2007 Monday, we visited the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway. We saw the museum and rode on a tour of the track. It was a wonderful experience for all of us. From there, we went to visit Melanie’s old home in Anderson, Indiana. We saw her house, school and stopped by and visited [...]
Sunday, June 24, 2007 Sunday was a drive to Indianapolis, Indiana. Along the way, we stopped at the Jelly Belly distribution center in Wis., got caught in a Gay Pride Parade near Wrigley Field in Chicago, passed the Sears Tower, drove inside the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, and got a free upgrade to our room [...]
Saturday, June 23, 2007 Saturday was getaway day from the cabin. it was sad, because we loved it so much. But we did not want to fly thought the trip home like we did on the trip up, so we left with plenty of time to mosey. We stopped for the first night in Racine, [...]
Friday, June 22, 2007 Friday we ventured in to the metropolis of Hayward, Wis. It was a trip to Walmart and laundry time. The boys and I found the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame. What a neat place. Everything you may want to know about fishing you could learn here. Pictures here.
Thursday, June 21, 2007 Today was the big trip to the big mall: The Mall of America near Minneapolis, Minnesota. Much like the comparison of the hummingbird nest to the bald eagle nest, such is the Mall of America to Cordova Mall in Pensacola, Fl. It was a beautiful, slow trip to the mall from [...]
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 Wednesday we relaxed and explored the lake. The most impressive thing I found was a bald eagle’s nest. If you’ve never seen bald eagle’s nest, you just can’t believe the size of it. We recently had a hummingbird nest on our back porch, it and was about the size of a [...]
Tuesday, June 19, 8:00am This morning I walked out into the clean, chilly morning air and surveyed some of the wildlife sharing the lake with me. The Mullvain’s and we drove about an hour north to the beautiful city of Duluth, Minn. We went to a lookout tower in the hills surrounding the city (and [...]
Monday, June 18, 9:00am We departed Rockford for the cabin. Soon after we crossed into Wisconsin, we ventured off course to tour the Matt Kenseth museum outside Madison. It housed several notable cars, including the cars for his first Busch Series win, his first Winston Cup win, and the car he clenched his Winston Cup [...]
Sunday, June 17, 3:30am We pull out of our driveway in a rented 2007 Ford Freestyle. We head north on I-75 to I-24 to Chattanooga, Nashville, and Paducah, Ky. We stopped at a roadside park for lunch near Metropolis, Ill. Would you belive that they claim Superman as the town mascot. Pictures here. We headed [...]