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Wisconsin Trip, End of 2021

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Went back to visit my siblings and their families in the Milwaukee area at the end of 2021. One of the days I went down to Chicago, to the Art Institute, which I like to do whenever I can. I get such inspiration there; it’s an amazing collection of art. I’ve included a few pictures from that afternoon.

It was typical December weather while I was there, reminding me of what a real winter feels like. Happy to say I’m back in Los Angeles, although I can’t say it’s balmy, it’s certainly well above freezing!

  • Pride flag flying in Cedarburg
  • The blogger before coffee
  • The little red barn at my brother’s house
  • Decorations in Cedarburg
  • Cedarburg City Hall and Christmas Tree
  • More Christmas fun
  • Cedarburg at winter dawn
  • Crafty Xmas decoration!
  • Love these 19th century buildings.
  • The old school building
  • The old mill on Cedar Creek
  • An old gas station repurposed
  • Went to say hello to Mom and Dad
  • The blogger on the train to Chicago
  • Paris Street; Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte
  • Detail of At the Moulin Rouge, Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Detail from Moulin de la Galette, Toulouse-Lautrec
  • In the Cafe, Fernand Lungren
  • Detail of In the Wings, Jean Louis Forain
  • Barbara Kruger
  • Barbara Kruger
  • Barbara Kruger
  • Barack by Jordan Casteel
  • Tiffany Lamp
  • The Tiffany Window
  • Empty Las Vegas Airport at 4 am
  • Walking around an empty airport
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Amtrak Southwest Chief Trip LAX – CHI and back again

Took Amtrak’s Southwest Chief (and the Hiawatha) to visit family in Milwaukee. Some pictures of the journey and my relatives for your viewing pleasure!

Mixed feelings about the trip – was great to celebrate the 4th and see my siblings and their families, also to partake in the summer celebrations in Milwaukee, the main reason I made this particular trip was to join them in burying our parents’ ashes at a cemetery just north of Milwaukee in Belgium, Wisconsin. So, something that needed to be done and a sense of finality with that. I think they would have liked the place we chose (my dad chose the cemetery after my mom died, but not the particular plot, that was left to us) and I think it’s a beautiful and peaceful spot.

Oh Amtrak! Unfortunately the trip home was delayed 16.5 hours because of a locomotive breakdown and then subsequent delays along the entire route. I did complain; I got a voucher to use on a future train trip (like that will be something I’ll do soon – not) but really coincidentally there’s this great story by Justin Fox in Bloomberg which I’ll link to which provides the context much better than I can. I really do enjoy the pace of train travel (it’s not only the Amish!) so I hope they can get their act together before it all goes down the tubes. I’d be very wary of taking one of these long hauls again (anything with a two night overnight, as all trains from the west coast to Chicago or New Orleans seem to be). Anyway, it’s good to be home!

  • Waiting Room at Union Station, Los Angeles. (Building from 1939)

  • Barstow Station
  • in the desert. . .
  • Gallup, NM, station
  • Albuquerque Station
  • At Albuquerque Station
  • La Junta, CO
  • Rainbows, and it’s not even Pride month
  • Lawrence, KS
  • About to cross Mississippi from Iowa to Illinois
  • Mississippi River at Fort Madison, Iowa
  • Somewhere in Illinois
  • The view from bro’s porch.
  • 4th of July, Cedarburg
  • Before the soiree
  • Blogger, before soiree
  • Summerfest, MKE
  • Summerfest, MKE
  • Summerfest, MKE
  • We buried our parents’ ashes.
  • Sister Kate and niece Emily!
  • Nephew Steve, Sister-in-law Laura and my brother Dick
  • waiting for Southwest Chief at Chicago Union Station
  • The Amish like the trains.
  • Ugh. 7 hour breakdown, Mendota, IL
  • Hello Kansas City
  • I think this is Gallup, NM
  • Flagstaff, AZ
  • Flagstaff, AZ
  • Near Flagstaff, AZ
  • Kingman Station
  • Hotel in Kingman!
  • Mojave
  • Barstow Station
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Amtrak Pass #1: Southwest Chief, Los Angeles to Chicago

Union Station, Los Angeles
Gallup Station, NM
Albuquerque Station
Southwest Chief at Albuquerque stop
A mountain, from the train somewhere in New Mexico
Raton, New Mexico station
another view of Raton, New Mexico
EMTs waiting for Shorewood July 4th Parade to start
The scouts getting on the train in New Mexico.

Started my 30-day Amtrak Rail Pass on Sunday, July 1. The first leg of my trip from Los Angeles took me on the Southwest Chief to Chicago and then on the Hiawatha to Milwaukee (more a commuter route, a very short 86 miles).

In short, train great, but hard to sleep. At least for me. A lot of the people I saw looked like they were out like a light, but this was not the case for me in my coach seat. It was pretty darn uncomfy for sleeping. Also, the A/C was cranked way up so although most of the landscape we passed through was burning up in record heat waves, it was freezing inside and I had to wear a sweatshirt.

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Enjoy the pix, some of which are Instagrammed; the video as well,  and hopefully there will be more coming. I get back on the train July 13th: next stop, Cleveland.

 

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