Look Russ, there is a sun in the Midwest!! Day 37, July 27, 2017

Finally, we got some sun.  The rest of the day be damned.  Not much happened.  We put on another 150 miles towards our next destination – the Great Lakes Naval Air Station. 

A couple of events happened today that are noteworthy though.  We stopped in a small town (2 restaurants) for lunch and when I was finished I went in search of a bank so that I might get some money and some change for the laundry.  Walked in the front door of the bank that advertised “Atm” and asked the manager where it was.  She said it was around the back near the driveup teller.  I said I wanted to get a roll of quarters.  She said that the drive up teller could help me with that.  I walked around back, took $$ out of the atm (charge 2.50) and took 3 steps to the right where I was asked by the drive up teller:  “Can I help you?”  I said, yes, that I would like a roll of quarters.  She said “are you a customer?”  I said no (which, perhaps was the wrong answer considering I had just paid 2.50 for my transaction).  She said “I can only give change to our customers.”  I said that I would check with the manager.  Went back into the bank and received “an exception” from the manager.  Do you get this????? I bet you do if you work for a bank.  Maybe you can explain it to me.

The other day-defining event was that we arrived at a campground in Whitewater Lake, WI sans reservation (usually okay from Sun-Thurs), got a space easily enough – most expensive space we have had since our start -- $45.  She said they had a laundry and my closet was beginning to stink so we booked it.  Dropped the trailer and I made my way down to the “laundromat.”  This was the scrawniest laundromat I have ever seen – 200 sites in this campground (most of which are seasonals – people who leave their trailers here and come back every so often) and only 2 washing machines, one of which was “out of order.”  The other washing machine had wet things in it but the cycle was all done.  So I sat down and waited for the owner of the laundry to return.  Well 15 minutes later, I decided to take matters into my own hands by moving the wet stuff to the only free dryer (the other one also had dry clothes resting – unattended -- in it).  I know, this is generally considered “bad laundry etiquette” but so is making your neighbor wait 15 minutes.  All’s well that ends well, I never met the culprit as our cycles never crossed. 

Still shitty cell service here and wifi is only a hotspot located ½ mile away.  TV however broadcast the national news from Madison, WI.  I see nothing has changed out there you all.  Government can’t do anything right but the economy keeps ticking along.  Tell me again why we have government? 

Leftovers tonight and Russ beat me at a game of cribbage, but this time it was close. 

Sorry, no pictures.  Too busy enjoying the dry, warm air!!