It has been a couple of weeks and we have moved a couple of times so lets get caught up. We arrived in Joliet, Illinois on Thursday, May 29th. On Friday we took our RV in for repairs. The dealer discovered that the air conditioner compressor had failed which meant the entire AC unit had to be replaced and they did not have any in stock. This meant we would have to wait a few days to get the AC fixed while one was shipped. They did install the new microwave and addressed some smaller issues we had identified. Fortunately we had scheduled to be Joliet for 8 days. We caught up with some old friends, finished the repair and then moved on to Lauderdale Lakes, Wisconsin.
We had let our friends from our wine group in Naperville know we were in town and an event was planned at the lake house of one of the couples. We parked our RV about 10 miles away in an RV park and then spent the weekend at their house with the rest of the group. We had a great time visiting with our friends and cruising on their pontoon boat on the lake.
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Wine group
On Sunday the group followed us to the RV park to get a tour of our trailer as they had never seen our living conditions since we started our “Life on the Road”.
From there we headed further north in Wisconsin for a two night stop over at my former boss’s home. He lives on 120 acres near a little town called Butternut. With all the land it allows us to park our rig in his “yard”.
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Ours is on the right. They have a fifth wheel also, which is the one on the left.
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Due to all the snow and long winter that occurred here the mosquitos are out in force. Taking the pictures above was unbelievable as I was being swarmed.
From here we will be heading to the upper peninsula of Michigan.
Route: From Joliet we took Interstate 80, west to Interstate 55, north, to Interstate 355, north to US 12 which took us into the Elkhorn area of Wisconsin. From there we took US 12 to Interstate 39, north, to US 8, west to US 13, north into Butternut.
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