Category: 2014 Wisconsin
My little sister, Jenni, is getting married to Russ Hagen on 11 July and we wouldn’t miss it for the world. We’re off on a three-week holiday to America’s Midwest to share the moment when Jenni and Russ unite and to take a badly needed break. Joseph and Padma are in dire need of a good relaxing holiday as they’ve had a ridiculously busy and stressful half year as a Year 11 student and as a high school teacher. For Joseph it will be his first time in Wisconsin in the summer and the first time he’s been to a wedding. We’ll start off at sister Cindy’s home in Somerset, Wisconsin and catch up on some sleep, indulge in some brats and beer and search for clearance sales. We’ll spend a day in the Elk Mound, Wisconsin area to find out more about mom’s Webert ancestors. Then we’ll celebrate the 4th of July in fashion and see a good ole American parade, spend a day on the St Croix River and then watch fireworks. We can’t go to the US in summer and not see a Major League Baseball game so we’ll watch the Twins play the Yankees. Then we’re off to Chicago and Madison for a quick roadtrip to catch up with friends and family. Jenni and Russ are getting married in Minneapolis. After the wedding we’ll hang out with Jenni and Russ and do some cycling around Minneapolis.
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MY BARBER LARRY
In the four years I lived in Madison in the late 1980s, I only let one man cut my hair, Larry the barber. I have never been fussed about my hair and hated going to fancy hairdressers who would offer you a Chardonnay. I just wanted to come out with hair shorter than it was
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DAY 11. Madison, Wisconsin
In May of 1986, I finally figured out that I didn’t know diddly squat about anything so after five years of living and working in Central America, I packed my bags and came looking for an education. I really didn’t know where to go but I flew in to Chicago and then at the last
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DAY 10. BILLY GOAT TAVERN
Joseph loved the show Man Vs Food and watched the Chicago episode when host Adam Richmond ate his way through piles of Italian food. So Joe had a list of places he wanted to eat. We could only grant him one wish so we chose to go to the Billy Goat Tavern in downtown Chicago.
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DAY 9. St Charles, Illinois
My grandfather was a Methodist minister and preached in Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Idaho, Washington and California. My dad was a deep sea diver and brought the family to Southern California and Alaska. My uncle Carl was a journalist and settled with his family near Chicago. Because of these geographic differences I never got too close
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THE ELK MOUND TOUR
I was born in Southern California and didn’t move to Wisconsin until I was 10 years old. As a result I always felt like a bit of a foreigner here and that probably explains why I left Wisconsin after finishing university and spent most of my adult life living overseas. What I didn’t know at
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DAY 8. Twins vs Yankees
This was the day Joseph and I were really looking forward to – a Major League Baseball game! Russ offered us his company’s Twins season tickets and Jenni, Padma, Joe and I went to see the Twins battle the Yankees at Target Field. We were four of 36,000 fans who came out on a perfect
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