Tag: travel
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Journal Entry
It has been really hot here in Wisconsin this summer, and I started looking for a cool place for a few days. On Sunday, I took the train to Chicago and walk the lake shore. It was cooler, but not all that cooler. Last week I started looking for state campgrounds along Lake Michigan, but…
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Journal Entry-Galveston, oh Galveston
Galveston, oh GalvestonI still hear your sea winds crashing I just looked up the lyrics to this song, and I remember them fairly well, of course it was a big hit back in 1969. It was played over and over again on the radio, as most hits were then. Glen Campbell was also on is…
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Journal Entry
The weather seems to be getting back to normal, with the low now at 34 degrees. The snow has melted off of the streets/highways today. There was a beautiful sunset tonight, without any clouds. It appears that pulling my trailer is hard on truck batteries, since I had to replace the one in my truck…
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Journal Entry
I traveled south to stay in my trailer this winter, and that worked until this week. They started stating that a major snow storm was going to come in here at New Iberia, Louisiana, but I did not realize that I would be back in Wisconsin, again. It must have snowed about six inches of…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Highway Bridges
Today, I drove from the southeast side of New Orleans to Grand Isle, Louisiana, and I swear that fifty percent of the highway was on bridges. That might be an over exaggeration, but it felt like during my trip was 125 miles. In New Orleans, a significant number of interstate miles are elevated above the…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Twentieth Day
Today I played bridge engineer. I know it is kind of my passion. But to start with, my trailer is in Baton Rouge being serviced. I feel that these RV service centers must have a racket going on. I took the trailer in with a few concerns, but then they have to tell me that…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Fourteenth Day
Today was a frustrating day. I first go to the Vicksburg Visitors Center, and I find that it is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. I am finding that the videos in visitor center really sent the mood for the tour in these parks and they are educational giving everyone something to look for in the…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Twelfth Day
I did not take in any history today, but it was a nice sunny and a little cold. The high was 63 degrees. Trace State Park to Grenada Lake, about 80 miles apart, although they are both manmade lakes, Grenada has a dam that is over a mile long. Longer than the dams in Iowa.…
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Journal Entry – Snowbird – Ninth Day
First, I pulled into a campground just before dark that has little to no internet signal, so I am typing from my I Pad. As for me, it has been kind of a slow day. This afternoon I went through the interpretative canter for Brice Crossing Battlefield. It was toward the end of the war,…
Deflection 