We
spent the night at Illinois Beach State Park and enjoyed a nice quiet evening
of much needed rest. Today’s trip was brutal. Chicago area has had lots of
flooding including on the Interstates which caused many detours, lots of
traffic and frustration. Wind, freezing rain and snow stayed with us all the
way to IBSP. There was extensive flooding in the park and many of the campsites
had standing water. We parked in one of the dry sites, opened the slides and
set up camp. What a relief.
This
morning we woke to 28 degrees, ice on the standing water around our site and
lots of bird chatters. One beautiful woodpecker hung around for a while and
collected a good breakfast from a tree right outside our dining area.
Cardinals, robins, geese, deer and plenty of squirrels roamed all around. The
dogs didn’t know which way to look but remained fairly quiet. We took a long
walk before breakfast to shake off our travel weariness. Tilly our little
female Scottie slipped on some black ice. She was quite indignant but recovered
quickly. The beach on Lake Michigan was beautiful and we watched it change from
a deep blue to turquoise as the morning progressed. The walk was brisk and
refreshing and we cooked a good weekend breakfast. We took care of RV business
– taking on fresh water and visiting the dumping station and started off on
today’s journey.
We
travelled north to Kenosha, on to Milwaukee and are on the outskirts of Madison
where we’re thinking about stopping for the night. Not sure just yet. We are
now an hour behind home travelling through our first time zone. The towns we’ve
gone through today on the rural route of 137 are typical small towns. There
were main streets with old buildings dating back to the 1920’s. It’s like
driving through Mayberry.
We
stopped at a little country diner called the Pine Cone in Madison and had a
delicious honest to goodness homemade meal. They also had a fabulous bakery and
we picked up homemade rolls, a gigantic chocolate éclair, elephant ear and a
Persian (a fried cinnamon roll with cream frosting and peanuts. Needless to say
we’ll be walking again tomorrow morning. We asked our waitress where we could
pick up some good quality Wisconsin cheeses. She recommended the Mouse House.
The cheeses we bought are delicious (you can sample any of them). We purchased
Mouse House Jack, medium cheddar, buttermilk blue, cranberry cheddar and a
Wisconsin sausage. Won’t need any snacks for a while.
Coming
soon you’ll be able to makes comments on our blog. I had a duh moment on
including the pictures and will be editing them before posting.
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