Awake: 5:43am Temp 53 sleep 7+09 sunny overnight @
Spring Green, WI
Leave Bob’s Riverside RV Resort @ 10:15am under a clear sky & arrive @ our
destination for the day @ the KOA campground in DeForest, Wisconsin @
11:40am.
Today’s travel: 1+26 time 64.7 miles 8.0 gal used 8.09 mpg
45.6 avg speed
Nice campground: easy off & easy on the Interstate + big rig friendly. I
like the campground layout & design…..in half circles, the arcs sweep
further outward with spokes running thru the half circle. It makes for a
pleasant environmental landscape.
Aside from parking & extending a few slides, the 1st order of the
afternoon is to find a store where I can buy another memory stick for our
digital camera. I maxed out my other sticks & want to have them on line
before I erase them. Getting directions from the campground office helps &
45 min later, we are pricing sticks @ Radio Shack, then Best Buy near the
East Town Mall. Hopefully the Best Buy was the better buy.
En route back to our KOA campground, we stop briefly @ a Pick & Save
grocery store in DeForest. Prices were not too favorable so we buy little.
We change clothes, drive to downtown Madison & wait briefly @ State &
Fairchild Street, just west of the Capital building, & meet with Kathy’s
cousin Jodi. She attended our wedding in 1991 & we haven’t seen her since,
some 35 yrs.
I wouldn’t have recognized her; she was a young teenager @ our
wedding……but after walking around a bit and talking with her, the Jodi I
vaguely remembered came back. We decide to have dinner at the sidewalk
café of the Tutto Pasta restaurant. The (3) of us share a small eggplant
Parmesan appetizer then Kathy & I split a chicken Parmesan dinner while
Jodi has the chicken Parmesan dinner for herself & takes the leftovers
home with her for another meal later.
Then Jodi gives us the best tour of Madison we’ve ever had; she works
downtown, knows her way around & knows her buildings & their usage; those
to be renovated & transitioned into condos & those to be razed with a new
building to be erected. We walked over to the Monona Plaza & admired Lake
Monona, watched a water skier & then walked around the Capital building.
Adding to our professional tour adventure was the world’s largest (have I
used this phrase lately?) public art event called: the “Cow Parade.” There
are 100 of these fiberglass, painted, costumed & whimsically transformed
cows on display in greater downtown Madison. Yes, I took some pictures
just because they were so creative & amusing.
It was good seeing Jodi after all of these yrs & it was fun hanging around
with her tonight. Before we say our goodbyes, Jodi gives us good
directions to the Woodsman’s Market which is open 24/7, is employee owned
& operated & is a great place to grocery shop & that we did. We are back
to our bus @ 11:15pm.
High temp=? Lights out: 1:14am
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