Monday 12 June 2006

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Awake: 5:45am Temp 49 sleep 6+16 Fog…then sunshine
Elevation 738 ft overnight @ Spring Green, WI.

Kathy makes some hot oatmeal with Craisins & nuts for breakfast. Casual
morning for us…..we needed that after that “House on the Rocks” tour
yesterday.

Late morning, we walk over to the campground office & use their phone to
make reservations for our next campground. Then Kathy calls her cousin,
Jodi, in Madison to plan a visit with her tomorrow. We have zero cell
phone signals in this sparsely populated area.

@ 1:30pm we drive (4) miles to see the “House on the Rocks” (resort) with
its 27 hole golf course & 3 or 4 swimming pools. A very upscale & remote
operation, this resort was purchased in 1999 & added to the assets of the
“House on the Rocks” consortium.


Next we visit the Frank Lloyd Wright visiting center just across the road
from his famous Taliesin home where Frank lived & worked for 48 yrs. He
designed & had the visitors center built in 1923 but it looks like a
modern structure that would have been built today. Our plan was to tour
the Taliesin house but the price per building was just a little too
costly. There are (3) building one can tour.

So in lieu of paying the price, we simply watched a video in the visitors
center, then took a walk on the paved trail paralleling hwy 23 which
afforded us a better view of his personal residence: the Taliesin; the
hillside home school: midway farm; the Tan-y-deri house & the Romeo &
Juliet windmill, which I was able to capture somewhat on digital pictures.
It was a (1) hr walk which also gave us a little needed exercise.

7:20 dinner: Pork chop, sweet potato, apple cheese salad & toast.

We’ve gotten behind in our movie watching a little so tonight, a double
feature: 1st movie: “Pretty Poison.” Definitely not a family film by any
means, but great acting by all three: Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld &
Beverly Garland. 1968.

2nd movie: “Murder in my House.” It was OK but somewhat predictable.

High temp=77 Lights out: 10:34pm

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