Shifting Gears   Baby Boomer…Member Life 2.0…Wife, Mother, Grammie…Bicyclist…GoldWinger…Mensan…Girl Scout…Reader…Knitter…Rotarian

The sound of rain on the skylight this morning did nothing to dampen my enthusiasm for the day – even though I knew I had to work a full 5 days this week and I haven’t done that for a few weeks!  But – my calendar listed lunch with good pal Vickie and that’s always [...]

Yesterday’s fun and games featured a bike ride on the Frisco Highline Trail – an abandoned railroad bed that has been reinvented as a trail for horses, bikes, running, walking, whatever.  The trail goes between the Springfield-Branson International (go figure?) Airport and Bolivar, MO but Burl was mainly interested in riding the part that would [...]

This evening we had a guest speaker at our motorcycle group meeting.  Usually we stick to either technical topics or travel info but this evening we had a rep from Smith Barney talk about Identity Theft.  I thought I was pretty consumer-savvy about the topic since I read so much about it and try to [...]

Took a day of vacation today to have a date with Burl!  The weather was absolutely fall-perfect so we left the house early (to avoid our chatty housekeeper who arrives on Friday mornings!), stopped for breakfast and arrived in Branson in time to see the Yakov Smirnoff morning show.  We bought a package of Branson [...]

We are home!  Arrived Sunday afternoon around 3:30 and Mulligan was just as excited to see us as we were to see him.  We left Prairie du Chien, WI on Saturday morning saying good-by to the NoTell Motel and headed south via all the little county roads that allowed us to catch snippets of the [...]

No I’m not revealing personal information – that’s the name of the beer we bought today in Wisconsin. It’s made at a local brewery and we decided to get some – haven’t tried it yet tho. We are in Prairie du chien WI after a day of perfect weather and great scenery. The weather forecast [...]

Tonight finds us at the Everest Inn B and B in Wausau WI. This historic inn has a wonderful couple for innkeepers – they directed us to a local Italian place just 2 blocks away for dinner and have provided all sorts of guidebooks and suggestions for activities in the area. Now we have to [...]

Hunters in Michigan have a big jump on the deer. They buy huge bags of beets, carrots, apples or corn and set out a gourmet feast for their prey. When the deer are well acclimated to their new diet then the fun begins – POP go the guns or WHOOSH go the arrows and the [...]

Our day started with the sound of raindrops on the roof but when you’re on a motorcycle and on vacation you can’t let that stop you. So we donned our rain gear and headed north in light rain. We reached Mighty Mac which is not a new menu item at Mickey D’s but the local [...]