Outside of Bloomington...really?

...You mean we're not going back...? We really made it out of Bloomington? I was out. Free. I could live my life again. Whew. The first night we made it to Madison, Wisconsin. Neither of us had been to Wisconsin and were both pleasantly surprised at how nice it was there. Madison is a very nice little city on a lake.

Using the Tom-Tom that Tim's parents had graciously sent him for this trip we navigated to a restaurant called Harvest, recommended by Alan. It's a small restaurant using non other than local, sustainable ingredients like most all restaurants these days. It was a great dinner. Maybe it was because of the company, or the fact that it was Saturday and I wasn't working, or maybe it was the good food but I had a really nice time.

After that dinner I finally started to realize that Tim was there to drive with me back to Oregon. It was hitting me. We weren't just going away for the weekend to turn around and go back to Bloomington... It was all starting to sink in. We had an ADVENTURE ahead of us! WOOHOO!! Oregon here we come. A week of driving wherever we wanted to go - so long as we didn't get sick of each other along the way! :) hehehehe.




Oh yeah...Bacon. Hehehe. Dave sent a slab of bacon back with us to my Dad because he knew how much he loved his bacon. So, we decided to play a little game with Bacon. That's his name 'Bacon', got really creative with that one. Here's the plan: we were going to dress him up and take pictures of him crossing the country, sending various pictures to Dave as Bacon traveled. Kind of like the Expedia gnome. ;) Hehehe. Here's where I would add that "I'm such a dork". But Tim willingly played along so I'm going to have to say that we are both pretty strange. :)