Back Where We Started From.

After 202 days, 35 campgrounds and 6,538 miles on the mothership we are back in northeast Wisconsin. We will spend the next two months at Rainbow’s End Campground in Reedsville, we are less than 15 miles west of Manitowoc and Lake Michigan. Yesterday we had a nice 190 mile drive from the west side of the state, we didn’t take the most direct route as we chose to drive southeast on I-90/94 then east on State Hwy 60 and northeast on US Hwy 151. The most direct route would have been State Hwy 21 but it is two lanes with a number of small cities and villages to slow for; there was also some road construction on several other roads we would have taken to US Hwy 10 which runs past the campground so we chose a longer but easier route.

 

I-90/94 north of Madison WI.

 

Hwy 60 eastbound toward Columbus.

 

The US 151 bypass around Fond du Lac (where John grew up (or did he ever grow up?) ).

 

North of Fond du Lac US 151 offers a view of Lake Winnebago.

 

Back in Calumet County (we both worked for Calumet).

 

John patrolled these roads for a long time, back in the day this intersection (151 and Indian Road), was a good fishin hole for John and his radar.

 

Back in Chilton at Chestnut St. and Grand St. our sticks and bricks home was a block to the right on Grand St.

 

Are we there yet? Grandpa owes me a ball game!

 

 

We arrived at Rainbow’s End at about 1:00PM and were hooked up on our site by 3:00PM and ready to drive back to Chilton to surprise Sandy’s Father and Stepmother. We loaded KoKo in the car and headed directly to their house but they were not home so it was off to choice number two which was grocery shopping. We found their car at the store so Sandy was able to surprise them there (they knew we would be back this week but they didn’t have the exact date). We met them for an early supper and then went back to their home to visit, extra good to see them!

 

Our site (Lucky 13) at Rainbow’s End.

 

It took her less than a minute to remember where the ball is kept.

 

Grandpa tries to talk some sense into KoKo.

 

I always need a nap after a visit with Grandpa.

 

We chose Rainbow’s End because it is close to our old hometown and there are several good friends that keep their trailers here for the summer. We will not have a sewer hookup while we are here so we are in the process of adjusting to that, for now John will try to keep up using our 10 gallon blue tank; we are next in line for a site with a 300 gallon holding tank. At this time of year this is a pretty quiet park (knock on wood), most of the regulars visit their sites on the weekends; after the family vacation atmosphere of the places in South Dakota we are enjoying the quiet.

One thing we are not enjoying is the weather, it is hot and extra swampy here this summer; they have received a lot of rain during the past two months so the water table is high, the ground is saturated and the air is full of mosquitoes. The humidity is predicted to improve by this weekend so we may have a break for a few days; good thing as we have some activities planned with Sandy’s family.