Bailey

Happy Canada Day!!  Cheers!!   

Today’s a short drive. 1h24m   

2 ways to get here, the first is though the little towns we travelled through when we visited Muncie in Bob.  Lets use the bigger highway.

It’s going good… until we have to enter to BIG highway 70 East.  Oh boy, construction…

Used to this, except, a dump truck like the yellow cab one pulls out in front of the semi in front of us making the semi veer off.  A few minutes down the road, the dump truck’s tire delaminated.  First we see a “thing” run horizontally across the highway.  Fortunately it missed the semi and us.  Then rubber was falling off, the semi has passed the dump truck, do we pass or not?   The dump truck doesn’t stop but does move over to drive partially on the shoulder.  Allan passes!

Next!  What do we see ahead?

The highway is completely closed.  What happened?  The glass windows will not be delivered as they are covering the entire highway.  This will take hours to clean up.  Emergencies services were not yet on scene.

“Ethel” (yes I name everything), my GPS is taking us down some very narrow, not sure another vehicle can share the road roads.

Finally we are here, the right hand turn into the park is. OMG, tight.  No photos as I got out to navigate the turn. Made it  🙂How the heck to you measure the 1/2?

Today was likely one of the shortest, stressful trip! We’re all snug now.

Jury is out on the winner, however Fire has less sugar.  Fire is usually the same cost for a small bottle as Fireball is for a big one.  This is the first time we’ve ever seen a 1.75 L bottle of Fire, price 36.99 they had a 750 bottle as well for 34.99.

Allan’s verdict coming soon!

The drive was, thankfully, uneventful.   We encountered much traffic in Indianapolis, but after maneuvering Chicago it was a breeze.  Go figure, we wanted to return to Indianapolis in Bob to go to the Indy500 museum but it’s closed for renos till 2025.

Muncie RV Resort

Surprisingly Muncie RV Resort is NOT in Muncie but in Anderson.  Munsie is 1/2 hour away.

Our escort to our site       

    Bob’s temp reads 111F/44C

That’s what sucking Bailey’s bum does I guess cause the real temp was 92F/33C

Bailey’s site, Bob is way back there.  This is a very long site.

Our walk around the park, there is a little lake with a beach.  Also has catch & release fishing.

	This is a liar’s bench LOL

The view from our captain seats     

June 25th: We went to check out Anderson.  Not much happening in Anderson :)​

We did get a Reward for our efforts, first one is quite awhileJune 26th:   Muncie Day including The Guardian Brewery

I tried 5 samples of beer, I’m just not a beer gal.  Bring on the

Allan declare his “Bill the Butcher” pizza a close rival to Jimmy’s, my meatball sub was gooey delicious.  Didn’t realize I caught Allan in an eye blink, he’s not really sleeping. They have the beer making process on a blackboard.  Not sure what the seats are.Our favourite part of the process…..Glass  –>  You!

Walking we find this theatre, Mary Poppins is playing.  What a blast from the past, this was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theatre.

Muncie does have a small downtown, no photos.

Tomorrow perhaps a winery.  This area isn’t the most exciting we’ve been to.

We’re sitting inside enjoying qualifications for tomorrow’s @IndyCar race, WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, when BANGWe rush outside to find it wasn’t the sky but a tree!Allan calls the park’s office and they arrive quickly with their bobcat

One guy runs the bucket, other guy gets in.

The man,                                                                the throw

We had him take photos of the roof, cause, still no way either one of us is going up there.  All’s good, no damage!!  It was a long, dead branch but my Super Man aka Fire God, was able to display it 🙂

 

Today’s outing is to the casino that’s 13 minutes away.  Catchy name, Par-A-Dice

As a first for us, the casino is a separate building from the hotel

Another new to us, the casino is in a ship! Allan’s slot machine 

We each gamble $20 when it’s gone it’s gone.   Who parlayed their $20 to $80??  Not me ☹️

Snack time!

What’s that???   A robot delivering food to tables, never saw this before.  It’s made right here in Peoria by Pringle Robotics.  This model is the “Puductor”

Brings to food to the table, waiter unloads                   Heads back to the kitchen

Another order 

This is a flash back to the Road America Race on June 9th

Bailey is a TV STAR!!  Spot her?

 

We found a free parking lot which is a bonus cause we don’t have any change for the parking meters.

What’s strange about this clock tower?   All 4 sides of the clock are showing the correct time! Mags, we thought of you when we saw this…  kinda knew you’d love it.

It’s a quiet town, hardly saw any people, but there aren’t any cute shops.  Seems strange for a downtown.  They do have a trail along the river front which was nice.

What’s missing at this dock?

Boats!!

This is how we do tacos in Bailey.  One of Costco’s inexpensive wines.  Pretty good.

Dessert!!  Freezies are great in this hot weather  June 20th:  Yahoo it’s another laundry day!!

These are the first 2 boats we’ve seen since we’ve been here.

Super Suds here we come!  It’s in a neighbouring town, Washington, much like Lethbridge most places are 15 minutes away.  We are super pleasantly surprised; there is only one other person doing laundry and there’s tons of machines.  Best – it’s super clean!

When the laundry is doing it’s thing, we walk. Got a chuckle out of this signYep, we, rather me, was very excited about how nice the laundry mat is.

The drive was fun cause we weren’t always on major highways.  It was windy but Allan got it done 🙂 We are in a “heat dome”, first time we have heard this term.  What is it?? A heat dome is a weather phenomenon where a high-pressure area is formed in the atmosphere, which traps hot air beneath like a lid traps air in a pot. The pressure pushes air down into a hotter, dome-shaped mass and prevents the milder weather systems from moving through.

Most everywhere we go we hear “this is not usual for this time of year”.  This normally means it’s friggin cold, rainy, windy.  This time is “it’s not usually this hot”

Current temp

7 day forecast 

Back at the campground; strangest one yet.  No site numbers, the host guides you to your site and no rules sheet.

Our view from the captain seats 

Our walk around the camp grounds.              This photo has a deserted boat

T’is nice here

The beach

How ever did this monster ship get on land?  Tomorrow, downtown – we think 🙂

It was a must to visit the Ho-Chunk Casino, that we thought was connected to our resort, was really 23m away.  Super glad that it’s non smoking.

  Poker is my favourite

The big win for us was fueling at the gas station on the casino grounds.  We paid $3.01/g; most stations are at $3.24g.

We’re heading back to the Wis Dell main street to walk the strip.  We need steps.  Some of the sights…

Park anywhere you want in this lot       …  More importantly, we’re here to try fried cheese curds.

She’s preparing the goodness 

These are goodness overload!

Our take away haul 

They have a trademark on the cheese bread!  It too is flippin amazing.  Sad we’ll not be able to get it anywhere else.  We are still missing boiled peanuts that we enjoyed while in the south eastern states.

We’ve seen Zoltars in many places, fortune reader extraordinaire, this is our first Trump.  It even sounded like him, wonder if it was Trump approved?

Proof I’m an angel! 

We gave up ducking quite a while ago, getting ducked however, did make us smile.  We’ll pass this fellow on.

Back at the park we have our first Old Fashion 

Outside the bar these ladies were selling “flat bread tacos”  Yvette, the bar tender told us they are delicious and huge, we just had to get one.

It was delicious and huge, we shared one and still had left overs

After this big day it’s fire time!! 

It’s that dreaded time, find a laundry mat.

First we go to visit a meat store. They have delicious smoked sausages, and this cow LOL

There is one 10 minutes up the road, we check it out eww, small, crowded, smelly, we are not fans.  We popped into the General Store and Allan found himself another  

Let’s try Wis Dell’s laundry…  Church Street Laundry for the win, if you can call it that.  Laundry tomorrow, we’ll go early to hopefully to avoid crowds.

June 13th:  903a, that’s early for us,  Allan springs to action!!  $7.50 for the large washer. Fortunately all our clothes fit!  A little victory 🙂

The laundry mat is around the corner of the main street in Wis Dell.  It’s an action packed, tourist strip that remind us of Niagara Falls.  It even has a Ripley Believe it or Not. While our laundry is getting squeaky clean, we venture to see what we’ll see in the 1/2h we have.

House of Jerky wasn’t open yet but I can’t imagine enjoying alligator, kangaroo, etc. jerky.   I just bet they have bold flavours. Wonder if we’ll return when they are open??

Some of the sights…  Wisconsin is famous for cheese, that’s Allan in Carr Valley Cheese buying the most delicious curds!

Our resort, that didn’t come with a casino, did come with a complimentary drink a day.  It’s really didn’t turn out to be every day as they are closed on Mondays/Tuesdays.  Wednesday they didn’t open cause the bar tender had a matter to deal with.

Thursday a drink, we asked what the signature drink is and Old Fashion.  Neither one of us have ever had one; “The old fashioned is a cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and water, adding whiskey or sometimes brandy, and garnishing with an orange slice or zest and a cocktail cherry. It is traditionally served with ice in an old fashioned glass.”

Only one problem, she does have the cherry (someone is out buying it now) and it’s essential for the drink.  I end up with Vodka/Club Soda; Allan has a shot, Papa Bear was made with butter scotch & whisky.  Secret ingredient a sprinkle of salt!

Back to Bailey we go for dinner followed by a fire.  It poured earlier so the pit was still wet. 

We’ll be at a campground for a week.  Need to dump our tanks and refill water, destination Ho-Chunk Casino & RV Resort in Lyndon Station, WI.  The road in was a little sketchy are we on the right road?

Then we see the office     

Our site   

The view from Bailey’s captain seats. A lot quieter than our last site.

What’s missing?  The casino!  Seems many make the same mistake, maybe the park advertising?  Oh well, we’re not gamblers.

On our walk to explore the park!  Turtles turtles, oh I love turtles. He found a puddle to bask in.    Fire time!  Love my water or ??? cup, thanks fire god!

Who’s happier???  What are the results???

2 races in 2 weeks!  Can life get any better?  We decided to watch the race️️ from Bailey to see the pit action. Besides, beer will stay chilled and wine & snacks are handy.  🙂  We found Allan’s favourite Mexican beer that he discovered in PV ….

Not many photos as we were focused on watching, the first one is their pace lap, second is what we watched after they whizzed by!

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Not Josef but one of my least favourite drivers… Will Power.  He does have a sad story, (click here is you want to read about it) but he was an ass before the illness began.

Results…  Joseph 2nd; Pato 8th….

… which means my car is first! 

 

Allan being a good sport after the race.  Playing King’s Cribbage

 

 

 

The disassemble pit boxes and vehicles leaving begins.  Begins with 7 semis, note how tall the orange NTT Data vehicle is.   Why?  What do they do up there? Hard to see from the camera angle but it’s at least 6 feet taller.  How do they make it under overpasses?

In little to no time, they are all gone.  I did have a photo of the orange unit but it’s gone.  They did lower the top part below the windows making it standard height.  Still wonder why they require that extra height.

It was an absolutely fabulous race weekend. Made more fabulous because….