The World Views

After beingness introduced to Jucy Lucy too setting canvass on the St. Croix…or would that laid upwards paddle?...we’re going to travel seeing the metropolis past times develop today. That develop would travel the Hiawatha low-cal rails business that cuts a north/south swath through the metropolis starting at Target Field inwards the northward too ending at the massive Mall of America to the south. We’re going to offset at the bottom too operate our way upwards to the top. Watch the Video! Traveling south, nosotros exceed the airport…two stops on this line…and inwards the southern flatness of Bloomington a massive parking construction looms across a large parking lot too field. We don’t know it quite yet… I do cause got suspicions…but this is hiding the mall that sits within of it. The develop pulls into the structure, which holds the terminate of the business station at Mall of America. An get upwards ride takes us to an unlabeled flooring (thanks to the ki...

I was hoping that this 24-hour interval would dawn clear. We’d bought tickets for our Minneapolis baseball game game on the exclusively 24-hour interval they’d move inwards town for our trip…the finally day. Minneapolis has a completely outdoor stadium together with a reputation for surly weather. We had ane shot, together with ane shot only, to grab this game. No pelting checks for us together with the atmospheric condition is promising “scattered thunderstorms.” Watch the Video! Not to worry, though. The 24-hour interval did starting fourth dimension sunny together with stayed that means the entire day.  Game fourth dimension is 7:05 tonight, giving us ane to a greater extent than 24-hour interval to explore the city. The mighty Mississippi river is exclusively a curt block from our hotel, the Residence Inn at the Depot. We haven’t actually had a peril to explore it, until now. We walk over together with emerge onto a large lock. This item department...

We’re waking upward inward downtown Minneapolis. H5N1 quick Marriott breakfast bar repast too it’s off…we’re out of here. At to the lowest degree for the day. Jumping inward the rental Ford Escape, it’s onto Interstate 35 heading north. Almost immediately, we’re crossing the Mighty Mississippi when Tim chimes in… “Isn’t this the span that collapsed?” Watch the Video! Ah, yes…yes it is…and thank y'all for reminding me patch I (who already has a span phobia anyway) am on said bridge. It was a tragic 24-hour interval several years agone when the span hither collapsed during eve rush lx minutes killing xiii people too injuring some other 145 due to bad blueprint too every bit good much weight. H5N1 piffling over a twelvemonth later, the replacement bridge…the ane we’re on now…was opened up. Past that infamous river crossing, nosotros maintain N into lake province too caput due east toward the Wisconsin border. It’s a quiet, scenic road…many lakes, st...

Today, I'm going to sent y'all over to Bootsnall.com for my latest published article, Up from the River...Seeing Milwaukee from Its Waterfront Pubs .   Here's the intro... "The Trocadero sits on a placidity corner facing the river on the E bank. It’s a sunny day, then their flowery patio is completely full. We brand our means into the uncrowded bar, where my married adult woman volition essay her showtime absinthe. Distilled southward of downtown at the Great Lakes Distillery, this all-American version is a strong, licorice flavored kickstart to the day. I bring my standby of Cazadores reposado tequila spell my boy stays sober alongside a Coke. It’s the metropolis that beer made famous, then it’s non surprising that Milwaukee has 101 ways to transcend away on sobriety away..." See the residuum here... Up from the River...Seeing Milwaukee from Its Waterfront Pubs  . -Darryl

Behind us is all the fun, food, in addition to beer nosotros had inwards Milwaukee. The wonderful Ambassador Hotel in addition to the delicious pannenkoeken that nosotros had for dinner concluding black at Benelux.  Ahead of us lies the drive. We’re on a broad opened upward interstate inwards Dairy country. As nosotros brand our means out of Milwaukee, it’s zilch but rolling dark-green hills, an occasional pelting shower, in addition to lots of cows.  This volition live on an all twenty-four hr catamenia induce then nosotros settle inwards for the long haul. Watch the Video! A few hours out, nosotros striking the biggest opor-garai finish inwards these parts, Wisconsin Dells. I had tried to run across if whatever of their waterparks had whatever sort of wheelchair access earlier nosotros went but no luck…not fifty-fifty a puddle elevator into a lazy river. It’s touristy…very touristy…as inwards wall-to-wall tourist traps in addition to curio sh...

We've been eating a drinking inward Milwaukee for a lilliputian spell now. Let’s plough to something else the metropolis does real well…sports! Baseball is our sport. One of our move goals is to catch each Major League stadium. There are 30 of them altogether.  Our primary reason…but non the exclusively one…to see Milwaukee is to notch our 22 nd stadium, Miller Park. Watch the Video! Before that, nosotros pass a lilliputian fourth dimension seeing the metropolis along the fantastic Riverwalk that winds through downtown. We practise a flake of pub crawling…which yous tin flaming catch inward to a greater extent than exceptional inward this week’s Cocktail Hour, TheMilwaukee Pub Crawl .  Go ahead, click on that link together with cheque it out.  We’ll live hither when yous teach back… One of our rules for stadium trips is that Tim makes all the arrangements for tickets. At Miller Park, at that topographic point is no proficient populace transit...