Summer 2021, Day 62: Pullman National Monument

After a nice weeklong family reunion and Shabbos in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, I continued east into Wisconsin:

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A sample of the wonderful town names of Wisconsin:

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I continued east into Illinois, fighting my way through Chicago traffic:

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I drove to a Chicago suburb to visit Pullman National Monument:

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The Monument preserves America’s first planned industrial community, built in the 1880s to support production of Pullman sleeping cars.  I checked out the visitor center:

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I then walked the community.  The houses are now privately owned:

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I continued east into Indiana to roller skate at Sk8 World in Portage:

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I continued on to Elkhart Indiana to overnight at a field where a PPG pilot will meet me for a morning flight.  See the trip map for today’s drive.

Summer 2021, Day 48: From the Mountains to the Plains

After a nice Shabbos in Taylor Park, I said goodbye to Clay and drove East over Cottonwood Pass:

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After checking out the town of Buena Vista, I drove northeast through South Park and down out of the mountains into Denver, where I went roller skating:

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I continued on to the Pawnee Buttes, where I got in Flight 136.  It was short, since I had to land before sunset:

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See the trip map for today’s drive.