Traveling Fool

My very first blog post for this particular blog was about driving the I-90/I-94 corridor to my hometown of Cleveland, and in all those subsequent years of driving that route, I had never stopped at the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. To be fair to me, I've only just recently become interested in any bird aside from eagles; once this interest took hold of me, I became determined to visit this place, just off of Highway 12, which is just off of I-90/I-94. I am writing this in early October and the location will close down for the winter at the end of October and re-open in May, so if you can't make it in the next few weeks, put it on your 2023 calendar to stop by on your way to Chicago or the Dells. After I made my way to the free parking lot, I paid my entrance fee (as of this writing, they do give a discount for AAA membership, but since the fee is only $12.50 for adults, and it was just little old me, I didn't take advantage. The staff was outsidde...

I made a trip home recently (Cleveland, if you're new to the blog), and I made a stop in Green Bay to see the Dixie Chicks and Milwaukee to see a Brewers baseball game. I have never been to Green Bay, it's actually not that far from the Twin Cities. Green Bay is home to the Green Bay Packers. That's it, as far as I could tell. But, it's a big deal. The concert was on a Saturday night, in an arena spitting distance from Lambeau Field, and there were so many people in Packers' gear, I thought there was a game that night. I didn't go into the stadium, it looked like you could, but I did take some snaps from around the stadium. A review of the concert will be in my movie review blog . Curly Lambeau Vince Lombardi I've been to Milwaukee for concerts before, but I usually just go to the hotel and then the venue, and I haven't explored too much, so this was my first visit to Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers. It was a beaut...