Trippin' with Susan Straley

Saturday, 10/5/19 On the last post I left off that I had just arrived in Waukesha, Wisconsin and rode, dined and stayed with Mark and Jane. I hope to add to that.  It has been a crazy couple of days.  I lost my wallet! All my cards, my ID, some cash, gone, gone, gone. But that is a long way from Waukesha, friends and family. So I will start where I left off, with my first full day in Waukesha. September 27th, 2019, I attended a wedding!  It was beautiful and fun and more.  That was in the afternoon. In the morning I went for a walk.  I saw that Wisconsin milkweed, though it looks different than Florida milkweed, gets the same bugs.  Mark got a game for Father's Day called Flamme Rouge? It is a bicycle game!  Each player gets a sprinter and a roller.  You utilize drafting behind other riders and being at the front is harder...  like real bike racing.  But it is unlike real life bicycling because I won, and that would never happen on our real bikes.  Both Mark

Today is Thursday, October 3, 2019. I am in a Super 8 Motel in Rochester, Indiana. I was supposed to be in Holland, Michigan.  That was the plan but you know how it goes when you are traveling.  Things happen and then you find yourself on a different road with a different destination. I haven't taken the time to blog because my days were full up with visiting with friends and family.  So I have fallen behind.   It will take a couple posts at least to catch up. The last post I was in Steven's Point where I spent the night at Barbara and Rolf's home in the woods not far from Steven's Point and Amherst, Wisconsin. I got up at six and was out the door by 6:30.  Before I left I brought in a paper copy (one of the few I brought with me) of The Journey Continues .  We shared hugs and I was on my way south toward Waukesha where George and I lived and he ran his business for over 25 years. But first stop was John Deere where our former employee, John Richmond now

Mary didn't have a book about mushrooms, but she brought out a book she had about lichen.  I read the first few pages and learned that lichens are a mixture of fungus and a...   shoot, I forgot the word! Moments like these get scarier and scarier.  Most of my friends are older, and I am seeing some memory loss in a few of them.  Besides that, I watched my Mom and George and friends live and die with dementia.  It is SCARY! Ok, thanks to Google, I am reminded that fungus and algae are in a symbiotic relationship that creates lichen.  " Rather, it is a symbiosis between different organisms - a fungus and an alga or cyanobacterium." When taking pictures of mushrooms I found myself wondering if something was a lichen or a mushroom, or just a mold. I think we saw all three in the woods.   My sister Mary and I had fun going on two more mushroom walks while I was visiting in Rhinelander, WI. I love that I took the picture below and then when