Our time here is done. We have had the best holiday and the best family time with half of our American family. I can’t put into words how wonderful it was to spend time with them all and to meet so many wonderful new people. Even though I am completely socially inept these days. So now, we sit at the O’Hare airport, which frankly is … Continue reading Signing out from Chicago

Was a wet wet day in the Windy city. We thought we would take a little river cruise, the Architect cruise. What’s a little rain? We love the Fro (Michelle G). As the Scandinavians say, there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes. Our guide Jimmy or James or Barry or maybe Gaz, told us this tour was all about contextual beauty. The … Continue reading Wet and windy Chicago

Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. I heard that today. Today was pretty damn awesome. We started with a Segway tour along the waterfront. I have to be honest, I was a teeny bit anxious. One trip and that bloomin’ shoulder of mine….but once Allay told us that we could only go 10mph and the Segway couldn’t tip up I felt a little confident. Forgetting … Continue reading Segways, Chicago Cubs and night time moves

‘We need to be in Chicago by 5pm’ I said to the waitress as we took our seats to sample our first ever Texas Roadhouse meal. What an awesome thing to be able to say. Neither of us take for granted this amazing privilege we enjoy. Both of us having the wherewithal to enjoy travel like we do. But first Milwaukee. We had come back … Continue reading Milwaukee – south to Chicago

What a beautiful little town. We popped in for lunch on our way to Milwaukee – having left Green Bay without too many regrets. Decided on the Parker Johns BBQ and Pizza where their T-Shirts proudly stated ‘We like pig butts and we cannot lie’ or ‘We have the best smelling butts in Sheboygan’. We actually thought it was PORKER Johns…. Where they serve sweet … Continue reading Sheboygan to Milwaukee

‘Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing’ Vince Lombardi – Green Bay Packers Coach Green Bay, home of American Foods Group founded in 1946 and apparently where they process more than 6.5 million pounds of beef a day uuuuugggghhhh….that just makes me queasy. Green Bay, home of Shreiber Foods, an employee owned customer brand dairy company with more than $5 billion in annual revenue. But … Continue reading And that’s Green Bay

I’m a little behind with keeping this travel blog and it’s late so this will be short (and I laughed and laughed). Truth is it probably just won’t make sense. We left Egg Harbor and headed to Green Bay via Sister Bay, Cave Point and Algoma. Thought we would just drive through Sister Bay, crane our necks a bit at Lake Michigan maybe, but when … Continue reading Sister Bay, Cave Point and Algoma

Egg Harbor couldn’t be complete without finding the ‘egg’ exhibition. Located in The Pavillion aka Egg Harbor Library. Right now I am a little fascinated with libraries, given the project I am working on is the Matatiki Hornby Community Centre in Christchurch. The centre we are building has a library which includes a creative activities room and recording room, a recreation centre with a lane … Continue reading Let’s talk libraries

Wisconsin. Not to be confused with Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. We travelled up to Egg Harbor via Oshkosh and Green Bay. When my boys were little, the rich kids had Oshkosh clothes, so I’ve known about Oshkosh. It was pretty cool to go through the town. We were considering hitting up an Oshkosh store. Just because. But got distracted by Sheels. And Ice Skates. … Continue reading Egg Harbor

I can’t work at Starbucks. Which is where we are now. The girl at the table beside me is getting an induction and apparently ‘the expectation is to taste every one of our coffees before 90 days’. Starbucks has 21 hot coffees, 28 cold coffees and 17 coffee Frappuccino’s. I could never deviate from my singleshotsoylatte. Starbucks and I would have to part company. 😢 … Continue reading Starbucks and such…..