One thing I hate to do on road trips is to backtrack or drive a route we've already driven. Sometimes, it has to be done though. On June 22, we drove from Minneapolis to the Milwaukee area on Interstate 94/90, a route that took us through Madison, Wisconsin. Here we are again -- this time, en route to Chicago. It's a complicated back-and-forth itinerary: Minneapolis to Madison to Chicago, back to Madison and back to Minneapolis, picking up various kids along the way for a unique treat next weekend: having Hannah, Charlotte, Josh, Maurissa, Justin and Katie, plus Thomas, Chris, Elissah and Grayson, all together for the first time. Definitely worth all the driving…. but I'm getting ahead of myself.
We left Lutsen yesterday, drove to Duluth for lunch (at our fave Duluth hangout,
Amazing Grace bakery), then continued on to Webster, Wisconsin, for an evening with friends, Chuck and Judy Brookshaw. It seems like every time we visit them, it's $1 burger night at the Yellow River Saloon, a deal too good to pass up. We all had a great time.
Judy, John and Chuck dining al fresco in Webster.
Early this morning, we drove to Madison, where we got the oil changed (again), tires rotated, and then, surprise, had this scavenger removed from one of the (new) tires:
Keep your fingers crossed that the patch holds as we approach the 10,000-mile mark on the summer's great adventure.
