Saturday July 14 Saturday off to Kalamazoo Day 1

Saturday July 14 Saturday off to Kalamazoo Day 1
The trip started at 6:30 am for the east coast. Jim H. and Pat and Dave met at The Happy Chef”. We stopped first at the Wisc rest stop right over the boarder for a convenience stop. Off for the east. The next stop through the lower hills of Wisc and a stop for fuel, car and people. When we were filling the cars in Janesville Wisc a voice came over the CB “what are you people from Mankato up to”. Turned out to be the three cars from twin cities that we were to meet in Kalamazoo later that afternoon. Ate at Burger King, enough said. Now we are headed to Chicago. We stayed in groups of three. The traffic was horrific for a Saturday, we drove really slowly as we passed through town. Then off we were to Kalamazoo. We found a neat place to eat, of course, at a Italian restaurant called Bennuchi’s right across the street from the motel. We had a starter of crab cakes, on a scale of 0 – 10, a 3 too much breading. The freshly made potato chips were good. Shirleen, Dave S. and I had parmesan crusted whitefish, a great choice with more fish to come. jerr