Saturday, May 24, 2025

Marquette and Coming home

 I have been in Marquette, Michigan, on the Upper Peninsula for the past few days.    My sister, Kristen and her husband have a summer home here.   This is a little slice of heaven!    Clean, clear skies, friendly people, and great whitefish meals.   Monday I will point the car south and head home, stopping in Madison to visit my cousin, Victor and his lovely wife Kathy.

Tuesday, I will make a short stop in Elburn, Illinois to get the European Train Store to help me figure out how to operate my new-fangled digital train system.    I am still operating my trains the same way I did 60 years, ago, totally analogue, with a million miles of wire under the layout.    I hope they can teach this old dog something new.

Then I will take about 3 days to drive home to Houston.   I remember in the old days, we might drive 12 or more hours, straight, to get from El Paso to Killeen, and that was at 55 mph!    Now, anything more than 5 hours and you can pour me out of the car!   I will try to be back in Houston before rush hour starts on Thursday, the last thing I want to do at the end of my vacation is to experience Houston traffic!

I will report my miles driven when I get home.



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