First stop...Antioch, IL

Trip Start Oct 23, 2007
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

On Oct. 23rd after much scrambling and cleaning, we left Asheville and ventured on toward our first of many stops along the way.  We arrived in Antioch in a timely fashion - 10.5 hours - despite our car being packed to the brim.  I can thank Noah for this expression - we did a wheely the whole way there.  Mom had some wonderful soup waiting for us and grandma betty had also arrived that day - so the Beatty hotel was full.  It was great seeing the family and having grandma around was a bonus.  She was recovering from a back injury and staying with Mom and Dad until she's able to get around by herself.
   We did some fun things during this stop.  The first being a grand tour of the Milwaukee suburbs including names of towns I keep forgetting like Oconomowalk and Mukwanago.  Nice towns but hard to pronounce.  Dad has lots of tricks up his sleeve in order to make Wisconsin seem like the best state in the country.  It was some good family time, ending with a dinner on the shore of Lake Michigan - the restaurant was "Pieces of Eight" and the atmosphere was just my style dinner in Milwaukee after a fun day
dinner in Milwaukee after a fun day
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   Also while in Atown John joined Dad and uncle Chip for a wild goose hunt...literally.  No geese were killed during this excursion, however many pieces of "wisdom" were shared.  Uncle Chip suggests that we move to "Alasker".  Enough said.  
   We met up for dinner with Grandpa and Lettie at the Silo.  Where else would we go?  They have the best pizza in the world and grandpa's fan club resides here.  We had a great time with them and got to see gramp's new minivan....very snazzy.
   On our way out we actually took a detour and went down to Bloomington, IL to see Jim run his last cross-country meet - maybe ever.  He did soooo good and I get so proud of him since I run and I know how hard it is.  Ohhh Jim, I miss him.  We said goodbye to Mom and Dad, which is never pleasant to do, just as saying goodbye to John's family is no fun either.  But they are going to come out and see us soon....right!!  After our goodbye we followed Jims team bus over to Rock Island, IL and stayed with him at his college house in the "boom room".....I still don't know what that means.  But we did get to play old school Nintendo and had some good hang out time.  John and I are old geisers now and got too tired to participate in the Halloween parties that Jim probably would have gone to if we weren't there, but Jim was gracious and made us feel like hanging out with us more important.  I wanted to convince him to drop out of school - his last year- and come with us.  but this was not possible, so we parted ways the next morning.
  So, by this time we had spent 4 days in Antioch and 1 day with JIm and we were back on the road, heading to Boulder, CO on Sunday Oct. 28th. 
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