Day 12: Valparaiso, IN
Wednesday 9/13
We stay one more day in Valparaiso in our hotel and hope the weather is getting better. It is still grey and raining. We use the day to relax, update the blog and recap our tour. So far it was a wonderful experience. We feel we learned a lot about the different areas and the equally different people. As we talk to waitresses or Inn owner, people on gas stations or just people we bump into – all theses states are different countries under one country. Live in Wyoming with all the vast nature and wild live is so different compared to the agricultural focused Iowa or South Dakota and again so different to Wisconsin or Illinois. The further east we come the rougher are the people. Ordering a coffee in Milwaukee is very different than ordering a coffee in California. There is no friendly voice that explains you where you find cream and sugar. Without any word you get your cup, you pay and go.
Once in a while we do the “Where do we retire” Game. The rules are: “pick any place except California”. For a long time it was Jackson, WY, that cute little village with charm and elegance while still somewhat original. The Lake Drive from Milwaukee came very close but somewhere around Sheridan Road in Forest Park, Chicago is so far the favorite.
There is soo much more to say and write – we’ll do that at a later stage. We made roughly 775 photos and drove 3,123 miles so far. Tomorrow we’ll continue through Indiana and try to reach Lake Erie.
We stay one more day in Valparaiso in our hotel and hope the weather is getting better. It is still grey and raining. We use the day to relax, update the blog and recap our tour. So far it was a wonderful experience. We feel we learned a lot about the different areas and the equally different people. As we talk to waitresses or Inn owner, people on gas stations or just people we bump into – all theses states are different countries under one country. Live in Wyoming with all the vast nature and wild live is so different compared to the agricultural focused Iowa or South Dakota and again so different to Wisconsin or Illinois. The further east we come the rougher are the people. Ordering a coffee in Milwaukee is very different than ordering a coffee in California. There is no friendly voice that explains you where you find cream and sugar. Without any word you get your cup, you pay and go.
Once in a while we do the “Where do we retire” Game. The rules are: “pick any place except California”. For a long time it was Jackson, WY, that cute little village with charm and elegance while still somewhat original. The Lake Drive from Milwaukee came very close but somewhere around Sheridan Road in Forest Park, Chicago is so far the favorite.
There is soo much more to say and write – we’ll do that at a later stage. We made roughly 775 photos and drove 3,123 miles so far. Tomorrow we’ll continue through Indiana and try to reach Lake Erie.
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