Sharp's Travels

We were on the road by 9:15 am headed for Fond du Lac and arrived at the Fond du Lac Fair grounds where we will be camped for about two weeks. We are here to visit our daughter Nikki and her family. The closer we got to Fond du Lac, the happier Cheri got. It has been over a year since we have seen them. After we got set up we headed out to order a turn table plate for the micro wave, ours got broke in Alaska. They wanted $45.00 for a new, but found a used one for $10.00. Good deal. We stopped at the grocery store to pick up a few things and got a call from Nikki to come to their place for pizza. We got home around 8:30 pm.

This morning we headed for Richland Center in the rain to have lunch with my cousins (Ken & Eileen, Dean & Betty). After lunch we sat down for a game of dominos. Once again the girls beat us guys. We left Richland Center around 5:00 pm and headed back to Boscobel. We stopped and picked up pizza to take over to Burl & Dorothy’s for supper and to watch the Packers play. It was good to see the Packers win.

We went to church with Burl & Dorothy this morning. After the service they came by to pick us up and they took us to Prairie du Chien for dinner.

We drove down to the park along the Mississippi River. We watched the boats and birds in the water. It was very peaceful there.

Dorothy wanted to take us up on the ridge in Gays Mills to the apple orchard. They are famous for the apple donuts as well as apples. We purchased cheese spread, jams and apples. Dorothy bought the donuts and we all got coffee or cider to go with the donuts and headed outside to the picnic tables to pig out! GOOD.

My wild animal card for today contains 8 elk and turkeys with a bunch of little ones.

We got back into Boscobel about 4:30pm. Gay sat down to catch up on his stock car races and I picked up my book to read a bit.

We were on the road by 9:00 am. We were going to leave earlier but it was pretty fogey. We arrived in Boscobel at the Dream Catcher RV Park around 2:00 pm. After we got set up we made a trip across town to see my Aunt and Uncle. At 6:00 pm we went downtown to have Chinese for supper.

We were ready to pull out of the service area at Smith Center by 9am.

It rained off & on all day. My wild game card only had 1 deer on it today!

We phoned a Navy buddy of Gay’s as soon as we pulled into Lincoln, Ne. We were lucky enough to catch him at home. He met us at the 27th Street exit Wal-Mart and we visited for an hour or so.

We hadn’t seen Mac for years. The guys had a great time hashing over old times. We called another Navy buddy in Ohio and the all enjoyed catching up on everything.

We pushed on to Kellogg, Iowa on Hwy I-80 and pulled into a campground for the night. It was 7apm and we traveled 420 miles. It was a long day.