Summer 2021, Day 62: Pullman National Monument

Posted on August 15, 2021 by Ben

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

A sample of the wonderful town names of Wisconsin:

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

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

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:

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

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

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

Posted on August 1, 2021 by Ben

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

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: