Sunday July 15
th. We arrived
in Austin, MN. Nancy's niece and family live there and we wanted to
visit with them. Lynn, Aaron and 2 sons, Andrew (7) and Lance (4).
We visited with them at their home and took them to dinner at the
local Mexican restaurant. What a fun visit. Andrew and Lance loved
to show us all their new things since last visit. Andrew had a
soccer game after dinner so we all went and had an enjoyable evening.
After that we headed back to the RV and they went home.
Monday we left early as we had a long
day ahead of us. We left Minnesota at 7:00 and headed towards
Plainfield, IL. where son Greg and family live. Lynn had told us
about a couple of other RV parks in the area so we thought we might
try the one closest to them. Drove there and got into the
park.....NO decent electricity or campsite. It is an old park and
VERY run down so we got our money back and headed back to the old
reliable park near Joliet, IL. We arrived, set up, then headed out
to the kids house to see them.
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Allie, Grandpa and Emily
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Allie, Greg and Emily |
Friday night we went to Downtown
Plainfield Days; Carney games, rides, cotton candy, noise, etc.;
entertaining!!! Saturday, July 21, we did have them come out to the
RV and had a nice picnic. Greg and girls went swimming and then
after a pizza dinner they headed home and we called it a day.
Sunday
there was a Semi Pro Womens soccer game at Toyota Park, in Chicago so
we all went to the game. If we understood soccer better it might
have been a little easier to follow. Charley got several days of unrestricted exercise with Greg and Lynns' two Softcoated Wheaton Terriers.
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Brady, Charley & Maggie (cousins?)
Monday another week gone by and we
headed north to hopefully escape the heat. We back tracked a little
at first, heading west on I-80 then north on I-39 into Wisconsin.
Well we stopped for the night in cool.... Bruce Crossing, Michigan in
Yuperland, the UP (Upper Peninsula to you non Michiganders)! Went
out to dinner at Carla's Cafe and were pleasantly surprised by our
menu and what great cooking it was. Tuesday found us up early and
headed north to Houghton/Hancock, Michigan. We un-hooked the car at
Wal-Mart and tried Houghton City Park, sorry full up. We headed
across the bridge to Hancock City Recreation Area. Yup they had
room.....let's pay for our spot and then go back and picked up the
RV. This is really a great spot, but what is there to do????
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DHH - Tom's dorm in 1962 and 1963 |
We are
only staying 2 nights. Tuesday afternoon, we drove around the
Michigan Tech Campus where Tom went to school, then out to McLain
State Park and the lighthouse.
Wednesday it was raining and cool. We
made wonderful wild blueberry pancakes and then since it was clearing, it was off to the copper country, the
Keweenaw peninsula.
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Eagle Harbor Lighthouse |
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Record snowfall marker OVER 20' of snow in 1 Winter |
We headed north to Calumet toured the downtown
area, then on to Eagle Harbor and ending up at Copper Harbor. The
old dump was closed so no bear watching for us. After lunch we
visited the state park before heading south to Hancock. Almost home
and look an old copper mine was opened and so we stopped for a quick
tour.
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The Old Quincy Mine north of Hancock off US 41 |