Always??? take the scenic route home??

Silly Waves (it's what our family does)

Hard to say our good-byes.

I blew Sophia a kiss as she was still asleep.

I didn't wear my "scenic" tee on my trip home.   It is one I like to wear because I "always take the scenic route"!  But not this day!!  Sadness.

This day I would try hard to make it all in 1 day and stay on main roads.  I couldn't take chances on sight-seeing on off roads with the temporary fix on my tire.   If you read my earlier post, you will have read that I had a tire with a leak.  The tire guy found a screw in it.  Al didn't want to purchase a new tire in Wisconsin, because this was a new tire and he knew he could get it fixed or replaced here at home.

When Allen drives with me, we have often driven the Wisconsin-Kansas roads all in 1 day.  But I have not done it on my own.  I am blind in 1 eye and am not supposed to drive after dark since I find it hard to judge distance.  But being summer, I knew I could do it all in daylight if I kept to it with few stops.

I had this verse tacked on my dashboard.  Yes, He IS with me!  What assurance!

This station wagon brought back memories!  We had one back in the day.  It was what Josh first drove to school in!

Pretty fields!

I have a beef about these highways that have vertical grooves.  It seems like the car wants to wobble around.  I cannot keep the car in a straight line!  Why do they make roads like this?

Oh my word!!  GAG!

Adam had filled up at a gas tank where someone had placed this sign.

It could be worse.  There could be NO gas.

"IN ALL THINGS, give thanks."  Mighty hard sometimes, Lord!

I sang along to oldies '60's and '70's music.  I listened to political stations and to sermons.  Soft "spa" music and jazz.  And sometimes I just talked with the Lord.

I only stopped 3 times, which I know is not good.  I always have tried in the past to get out of the car every 2 hours or so and walk around to prevent blood clots.  I checked the tire each time and it seemed to be holding!

I was getting close to home!  We have many trains!

 Most of the wheat was harvested already.

A pretty sunset greeted me as I drove into our development.  Oh, it was so good to get home!  Thank You, Father, for safely seeing me home!  Several people were praying along with me that the tire would hold.

Galloway Village, LaClare Cheese, History Museum at the Castle

Galloway House and Village -

After dropping Sophia off at work one day, Claire and I decided to visit this historic homestead of a locally prominent family from the late 1800's and the historic structures brought in to create this little "village".

Miss Margie's Dress Shop

Springvale Town Hall.  See the voting booths?

Eldorado Church

Toy Store

Print Shop

School

Inside the Galloway House

The servant's back stairs

When the Galloways would ring for the servants, 

the arrow that moved would show which room they were calling from.

Front door

Indoor plumbing

(My mother remembers when her father first installed one in their home.)

I took Claire to a park.

Upon returning to the car, realized my tire was going flat!

Crum.  Well, the next day was my last day with the girls, and we planned to go out of town.  We took Adam's car as I couldn't drive mine.  We took Kobi to the neighbor boy for the day then took off.

LaClare Cheese -  where goat cheese is processed.

Goat silo

When we were there, the goats were inside the silo, but sometimes they climb

 on the outside of it!  I found this picture on-line.

Behind the scenes at the goat cheese-making opperation.

Being Saturday, the production line was not happening.

The girls played corn hole.

As we were getting ready to leave, Sophia saw a car with a Kansas tag pull into the parking lot.  Of course I had to go talk to them!  They were from Manhattan and visiting a brother.  

We continued on toward Appleton on the east side of Lake Winnebago.  A nice, slow drive, compared to Highway 41 on the west side! 

We stopped for lunch. Claire made up her own drink.  "This is GOOD!"

 Next destination:

History Museum at the Castle -

Houdini exhibition.

DaVinci exhibit

We went to the basement for another exhibition.

After a stop at Doughlicious, a dessert store (with edibile cookie dough!), we drove back home in a driving rain.  Adam and Jill returned from their trip just before we did!

That evening, we aired up my tire enough to run it to the store to get it temporarily fixed, so I could make it home.