Wife is Good

Read Gregg's new cap...yes, Sally bought it for him. Couldn't resist.
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Wife is Good and Life is Good in Decorah, Iowa -
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BEAUTIFUL campground.
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The downtown shops are interesting.
A company called StoryPeople is here and creates the most unique product that I could never begin to explain. Here, look at some in a store window (that's some of downtown Decorah reflected in the window). Says "feels like some kind of ride but it's turning out just to be life going absolutely perfectly". That about sums up how we've been feeling these past months.
http://www.storypeople.com/
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Great small museums...







Great biking and yes, the Iowa corn is tall!

We are loving it here, staying some extra days.

Taliesin

We are now back across the beautiful Mississippi in Iowa, in the small town of Decorah, in the most beautiful RV park we've yet seen with wide green lawns and bike trails leading for miles and miles around town.

The last thing we did in Wisconsin was a tour of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's personal home.
Very, very beautiful with tour guides who really know their business - fascinating. Pricey but well worth it and you see why they need the high price tags. It's a big job trying to preserve this place that was designed more for beauty than for structural soundness. The home is wrapped around the top of a hill from which the views are incredible. No glaciers came through this swath of SW Wisconsin and NE Iowa to level hills. The land rolls and rolls and the sun and rain create lush, lush landscapes.

Spring Green

Southwest Wisconsin -

Breathtakingly beautiful.
We are camped along the beautiful Wisconsin River.
REAL cheese curds, not those fake ones.
Fresh and squeaky.
Hot & humid - first time we've turned A/C on in SIX weeks, since June 24 in Southern MN.

The House on the Rock -

The strangest place you can ever imagine. Think Walt Disney, Michael Jackson, obsessive-compulsive collecting, strange, strange, strange...

These pictures are only a MINUTE sampling of the strangeness there.

I'll post more another day after my tour today of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin.

More EAA

Just another couple of pics to go with Gregg's post below about the EAA museum.......Gregg & his favorite, the Piper Cub and me and my favorite, the Flying Flea.

EAA AirVenture Museum

We just could not pass through Oshkosh, WI without visiting the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) AirVenture Museum and Pioneer Airport at Wittman Field. Oshkosh is home of the worlds largest aviation event, held each year for a week in late July. To give an idea of the scale of this show, it is attended by over 500,000 people and includes some 2,500 aircraft. If all were parked side by side, the flight line would be about 5.2 miles long! About 40,000 campers make the convention grounds their home for the week-long event at Camp Scholler, an integrated 700 acre campground. During the convention, Wittman Field becomes the worlds busiest aiport in terms of takeoffs and landings. Aerial events are scheduled each day at which time the airport is closed to traffic. The museum is open year around and is home to over 250 aircraft and five movie theaters featuring subjects of aviation interest. Pioneer airport which is a part of Wittman Field is a 1930's replica grass airfield and includes over 50 vintage aircraft. EAA members fly homebuilt, classic, antique, warbirds, ultralight, rotorcraft as well as "plain vanilla" conventional aircraft. EAA AirVenture is the place to be to find out what is happening in aviation.

Para-Sailing

Absolutely perfect day for para-sailing, great group of 5 that we went out with, Gregg loved it and Sally is really glad she did it once...

First, our new refrigerator....much better than the red cooler in the bathtub. We are happy campers now.









Next, some wonderful images from Door County, WI. What a place this is. We're finding fun things to do every day:
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Fish Boil - delicious.
He's adding what he calls "a pinch of salt".

Then he adds 2 cups of fuel oil to the fire to create a blaze that makes the fish stew boil over and spill its fat on the ground. The resulting fresh Lake Michigan whitefish is wonderful!
See the boilover here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EHGyzuQZGU

A rule of mine...

Always Stop at

Lemonade Stands!!

Support the entrepreneurial, capitalistic dreams of the young! Notice the Free Ice.

(I found these 2 girls to be an interesting study in opposites - look closely at them...)

Cherry Fest -

Pennies are tossed into the sand for the little ones to find. Nice, nice beaches all around here.

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Today we go para-sailing, add more sitting in our lawn chairs along the harbor, more treasure hunting in the gift shops, maybe kayaking, then back home to the RV to pack up for another move tomorrow. Heading to SW Wisconsin to the Spring Green area to see Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin as well as doing some biking on a state trail.