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From one fellow Nebraska fan (born and bred Nebraska Red)....Go Big Red Wendy!!!!
So friggin awesome!
From one fellow Nebraska fan (born and bred Nebraska Red)....Go Big Red Wendy!!!!
it just surprises me, no matter where you go you find a place to park. It's normally not that easy when towing a boat...
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Welcome back..... and thanks for sharing your journey. Hope it was as therapeutic as it appeared to be. Made me feel good following you!
Welcome home sirbob/Jim. I’ve enjoyed following your trip for the past several weeks, great pics and posts. As a long time San Clemente resident, maybe I’ll see you on the beach trail one of these days!
A sincere thank you for sharing your travels and also the human side of it (your insight and emotions). For what its it's worth, I know you have connections in Michigan, but feel free to reach out if you need an opinion or an attempt to make any connections.
That works!! Beer city USA is within an hour, craft beer aboundsThank you for your offer, I never have enough connections!
How about a beer next time I’m there?
Classic!I officially made it home!
It was a great trip, learned a lot about myself and found myself becoming a little more emotional from time to time than I expected. I met some great people along the way and enjoyed seeing things that I would usually of flown over and never thought twice about.
Northern Michigan has some of the best summer boating I’ve ever seen and is a place I will seriously look at buying another place to visit in the summer (I don’t do winters very well!).
I’m looking forward to working with Dave’s video guys to see if we can put together a recap documentary of the last couple of months on the road. There were lots of pics and vids I didn’t post that hopefully we will be able to include in an extended video recap.
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Took the travel cover off and replaced with the dust cover for storage.
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Total trailer pulling miles - 7130! I love how the Lincoln shows miles pulling a trailer!
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Over all miles for the trip - 8694!
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This has been a great trip. I’m about seven weeks in and so far and I’ve met a number of incredible people. I’ve seen some of the greatest small towns you can imagine. I’ve been in a number of places I could see having a second home. I have enjoyed myself immensely, boating on lakes I only dreamed about and generally speaking Ive had a great trip so far...
Except for one thing.
I miss my wife terribly. It’s not possible to convey the sense of loneliness I’ve felt at certain times on this trip.
The times I miss her the most are when I’m driving for hours at a time and she’s not next to me...
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Or those times I was sitting on a dock at night with a drink and some music on in the boat. That was by far her favorite part about being on our boat. She loved the early evenings as the sun went down and the music got louder and louder as the evening got later...
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Wendy, wherever your little place in heaven is - I hope you are enjoying this trip with me. I know you’ve been watching and doing everything you can from heaven to keep me safe. And I love you for doing that...
I know you are near and I’m always reminded of you. I love you and miss more than I can express ❤
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On to the next fuel stop...
I was on Walloon all day on the 7th. My nephew is friends with the owners on Avalon. His best friends Grandparents live next door. I have a lot of Walloon back ground. If you went out to eat at the Barrel Back, one of my sons are the bartender. I lived right down the road from there when I was 19 years old for a summer being a caretaker of a home. Awesome Lake.
This was the place I got to hang for a summer on Walloon lake. The family sold it after many years. The new owner flatten it, and is building a new home. This is just west of Randall Point. Randall point is the sand bar with the big flag pole. Randal Knife Company's family still own that. Still a lot of family owned property there. The Hemingway cabin is across the lake. Still owned by the family. Yep, I can bore you with a lot of Northern Michigan history. LOL
Well done and thanks for sharing your travels. Glad to see you got home safe
i am currently on apx 8500 miles so far. Trying to figure out where I want to go next. Hesitant to head W from SD simply due to fires and smoke. May just head to Texas but not sure yet.
@sirbob , thank you for sharing your travels, I felt like I was right behind you the entire trip!
I read your MI posts a little to late, or I'd have tried to convince you to go around the top of Lake Michigan and cruise through WI, as I see it didn't make your list.
Give me a couple days notice, and there's all sorts of lakes in Wisco that your boat would look and run very nicely. Beers and dinner on me if you do! And if the boat isn't with you, you'll have to put up with a tour in the StressEliminator...
Dang.... those are pure artwork. Prohibition era bootlegger boat too, eh..... no wonder I've seen old pictures of the Kennedy's in these.Did you meet Tom Borisch on your trip to Walloon?
Did you meet Tom Borisch on your trip to Walloon?
Well - hello Nebraska!
Wendy was a Cornhusker through and through. My thoughts about being here are on the video.
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wow - neat stuff! What a great look at Wallon. I saw a number of woodies running around but its great to see them all together.
And that collection Tom has - wow. Is he up the west arm? I only went up there once this trip and don't remember seeing his dock on the lake?
Dang.... those are pure artwork. Prohibition era bootlegger boat too, eh..... no wonder I've seen old pictures of the Kennedy's in these.