Ye Olde Outhouse Fly Paper: Day 10: The Great Sibling Trip 2017

About Us

We are a brother (Detroit, MI) and sister (Houston, TX) who love to travel together to parts unknown. This year my sister flew into Detroit and we began our journey West. Stops include Davenport, IA, the Amana Colonies in Amana, IA, Marengo, IA, Des Moines, IA, Omaha, NE, Grand Island, NE, Rapid City, SD, Sioux Falls, SD, several cities in MN including Mankato, MN, Wisconsin Dells, WI, Marinette, WI, Mackinaw City, MI and back to Detroit.

We are also stopping for selfies and pictures along the way at some very interesting and unusual out of the way places that you will see in the blog. Enjoy!

Fun Facts:

Total Miles Driven so far: 2,830
Average Miles Per Gallon for the entire trip so far: 56.2 MPG
Average Miles Per Gallon today: 56.9 MPG
Car being driven: 2016 Prius 4
Miles Driven Today: 222 Miles
Weather: Perfect with temps around 80

Today was another busy day filled with driving to a new location, driving around to take pictures of houses that our ancestors lived in a long time ago, planting flowers on the graves of our father and his family, searching for geocaches and eating. Also, emotions ran high today between my sister and I. It is tough traveling together for 10 days and not have differences between our opinions of life and our lifestyle at our respective homes. In the end we love each other but when one is far away from home, sometimes you tend to miss home.

Breakfast at the Chat n' Chew in Wisconsin Dells
Last year we ate breakfast at a place that had really good bacon and we found it again this year. We asked the waitress about the specials and she said they really weren't specials but a la carte items added together. When we got our bill, it looked like she gave us a senior discount!

Me at Myrt and Lucy's Chat n Chew

The booths all have decorations

Now featuring...

Look at that slab bacon!

Non-Specials

Waiting for our food

Grave Maintenance

It is hard to get down on the hard ground and dig up grass and ground that has really gotten a good start. I brought a mini shovel and really had to work at getting the soil loosened so we could plant the magnolias that we bought at the local Menards. After planting, I watered them really well. We are hoping that they get a chance to root and grow with the local rain because there isn't anyone to water them regularly here.

Geocaching

We did some more geocaching this afternoon. We were 2 for 4 today. Sometimes it is just too hard to look for them. For instance, one took us deep into the woods on a trail and then I had to go off the trail into deep woods for 50 feet. Did I mention that the mosquito's were really thirsty out there? I didn't feel like doing that with shorts so we gave up on it. On another I did go into the woods for a short distance and found the geocache shown below.

In the woods

Sample Geocache

Eating at Mickey - Lu Bar - B - Q

Ever since I was young, we would stop at Mickey Lu's to get some great burgers. After all these years, it's still in business and still using fresh baked crispy buns, fresh ground beef (ground daily) and the freshest Wisconsin butter, onions, spicy mustard, ketchup and pickles.

The owner is Chuck Finnessy and he remembers me by name when he sees me. Today was no exception. I first created a web page about them in 1998. Here is the link: http://jldr.com/micklu.html
Here are the latest pictures from today. Take a close look at the butter oozing out of the burger. Today I ate 4 burgers for lunch and 3 burgers for supper. I only get these once a year if that so I starve myself the day before so I can eat that many.