1 pickup to Williamsburg IA (Monday)

1 pickup to Caledonia WI (Tuesday)

... spending the night in Appleton WI

The plan had been to leave out Saturday at about 10:30 and stop at the OktoberFest for a couple of hours before heading in the direction of Appleton. Instead at 10:30 we were heading to the ER where we spent most of the day. All is good ... for now.

We head out today, Sunday, at about 9:30 and stop in Chippewa Falls at Irving Park. I have a lot of pictures from there from the 1950's when my Dad's cousins lived in Eau Claire. Didn't time it but we spent about an hour there. Free park, a dozen or so zoo type animals. Lots of people having family type parties, we did not join them. The animals look pretty much the same as they did 70 years ago. Seeing those pictures is when I pretty much decided to stop taking pictures of animals.

Another hour or so down the road we stop in Curtis at the Abbyland truckstop and have a buffet. Good food. Not a lot of choices but plenty to eat. Salad bar, fish/pork/chicken/beef plus sides.

From there we did the rest in one shot. Clarion in Appleton was the cheapest today. There is a restaurant attached but it is early so we head out.

We go to a cemetery in town to do some walking. We did find a couple of markers we were looking for but the office closes at 2 PM on Sundays so we didn't have locations on the others. Didn't have locations on any, but we were able to find a couple of them by our detective work.

By the time we were done walking we headed to Schlotzsky's. They were supposed to be open until 7 PM but not today. Can't always go by the signs, sometimes it seems it is when the crew wants to go home.

So we end up at Noodles and get it to go. They both were near the Fox River Mall. 'Looks' like it is still doing OK. Only the Sears (?) anchor store is empty. Map makes it look like most of the smaller stores are open.

Load board

US - 88

IA - 1/0

MN - 3

WI - 5

Pretty easy route for tomorrow. Very little freeway but almost all the rest on a US-151.

We should be able to pickup, drop and be about halfway back before we shut down tomorrow night. Then the 2nd trip is only about 2 hours so we should get that delivered on Tuesday.

Without any RV's to do, we have to find a new way to do things ... that may be just work less.