Road Trip Day 4 (Still in Wisconsin)

Today was officially the weirdest and most entertaining day ever! We started our day with a walk on the House on the Rocks resort and once again mom pushed to walk up some mound of physical defeat, but we did it! Then we went for a swim at the pool and headed over to Taliesin, which I mentioned before is Franky LDubs first house. I had no idea how much of a pimp that guy was. During our tour we even discovered that he had a trap door that went from his bedroom to a closet in a downstairs bedroom....nice touch Franky. Apparently he was a short guy and strongly believed that if he made his ceilings low it would push his guests to go to where it was less claustrophobic. It was a neat tour and we were joined by a book club who was touring there after reading a book about him. There was one guy in the club.....hmmm.....I also want to take this time to mention that there was no photography allowed inside the house....but I did get a picture of FLW's famously failed 3 legged chair. I don't know I heard it was famous. My flash went off by accident so that's when I decided I might not be able to get away with it!

On our way to the next attraction we drove by a gallery of an artist that takes old roots of large trees and makes sculptures out of them! So cool!

Then we went to the Famous/Infamous House on the Rocks which is the most fucked up place I have ever seen in my entire life. This guy Alex Jordan built what I like to call Tim Burton's version of Disney Land on a fucking cliff! He collected an absurdly offensive amount of weird shit and placed it all over the house. The dude never lived here but considered it his inspiration. The pictures can't possibly even begin to explain to you how this 3 hour self-guided tour displays some of the most messed up shit this side of the Mississippi! From his dollhouse collection, to gun, circus, china, shag carpetting and organ (not the body, but it wouldn't surprise me) collections and the worlds largest carousel. Needless to say I was scared shitless the entire tour, didn't want to leave my mom's side! This place is guaranteed to make you shit your brains out at Halloween. I'm sorry about all of the cursing but I have no idea how to emphasize this place without a number of exploitives!

Then we decided to head to our next hotel and there we are plugging along and I look in the rearview mirror and see some pretty blue and red lights.... Well hello friend, haven't seen you in a while! Yah, of course, I got pulled over for speeding! My mom and I are looking for the registration in the glove compartment when all of a sudden I hear "BOO". Good thing I wasn't carrying my semi-automatic weapon. I jumped and said "Oh Jesus" and the police officer said, "No, actually it's Max". He explained that I was speeding and asked where we were headed. For some reason we started talking about how we just came from the house on the rock and he admitted he'd never been there. When we told him that it takes about 3 hours to walk through he said "Well, that cuts into my donut time"..... SERIOUSLY! Coolest cop ever and I didn't have to yell or curse or anything to get out of a ticket!!!! Maybe the girls had something to do with it.....yah, you know who I'm talking about!

Anyways, this entry has gotten way too long and I want to show you the pictures from our day and the videos....yah, I just figured out that I can do that! SWEET!
So Wisconsin is one of the weirdest places I've ever been to and I'm pretty sure that there's either something in the water here or maybe being crazy was the cool thing back then!

Mom air golfing

Taliesin

That's right....there's that 3 legged chair! I love being sneaky!

Frank Lloyd Wright's Grave....showoff.....

Tree Sculptures. So sweet!

Entrance to the House of the Rock in the middle of nowhere and a sculpture made by Alex Jordan, a rival of Frank Lloyd Wright's.

The Infinity Room, this is where I freaked the F out!

Alex Jordan's Shag Furniture Man-room

The Friggin Passion-O-Meter said I was a "Dud".....asshole......

The Women's Bathroom........CALL ME!

The World's Largest and Scariest Carousel.

An Airplane in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin.....WTF?

Yah that's right! We got pulled over and I was driving! We were laughing our asses off!!!!

Momma's additions: we packed alot into this day from the sublime to the absurd: the countryside is gorgeous and Taliesen is mecca for Frank Lloyd Wright fans of which we are 2 (the real devotee, Tim Love was really missed): the House on the Rocks is beyond description or even depiction but Eliza comparing it to a Tim Burton theme park is really close: it is a must see but tonight vivid dreams are guaranteed: and, as if these 2 eccentrics, FLW and Alex Jordan (House on the Rock), infiltrated the water, everything and everyone in this area is just a little off kilter: like the police, nice, but what cop says "Boo" when they walk up to your window after pulling you over? Alien abductions and mind altering definitely happen here, definitely. 

Road Trip Day 3

Hi Again,
So here's some pictures of things that we couldn't show you from our trip on Day 3. I'll make it short since I already wrote something.

The stairs we climbed at the Indiana Dunes and Mom getting ready.... not so giddy after!!!!

Indiana Dunes and Lake Michigan. Me already exhausted!

Mom climbed up this bitch of a dune and I tried to make it up there....only half way.... apparently it wasn't worth the climb and as you can tell by my face, it wasn't worth the effort!

A power plant on the water. Anyone wanna go swimming? Then Chicago in the background.

Welcome to Chicago. Lubricant anyone???

Wrigley Field and Midieval Times

Welcome to Wisconsin and every where we go we always run into the Love's!

I am SOOOOOO popular!!!!! We like to think that this next picture is of the cloud forming into a tornado but alas, no such luck.....we were hoping for one!

Of course I took this picture!!!!!

PS. I have decided to put all of my pictures up on Snapfish so if any of you are interested, let me know, shoot me an email and I'll send you a link or whatever it is that I have to do!

Out of touch in Wisconsin

Hi Everyone!

So we are in Spring Green, Wisconsin at this hotel called House on the Rocks. We're actually staying at the resort and not the actual attraction: the house. You have got to google this place which is what we did last night. Turns out that across the way from this place is Taliesin which was Frank Lloyd Wright's house!!!! Had no clue he lived here or that he had a house here. Wisconsin is friggin beautiful! We are going to stay here an extra day because it's so pretty and there's so much to do...... who woulda thought? No cow-tipping though..... the Colorodoians would hate me if they knew my record with animals!!!!!

So anyways we have no cellphone access or internet access besides this whole in the wall "business center" at this resort which is home to one of the most popular Golf Courses in America.

We will add more tomorrow and include pictures but for now this is all we have. Had a great drive today and really enjoyed the fact that we are seeing some really cool things. Hasta Manana y'all.



Momma's addition: theme song through traffic jam in Chicago: "Fuck You" by Kate Perry, love this song: flats of Illinois gave way to some mounds in Wisconsin and ski area called Mount Horeb (Whore-eb, Claire) which isn't even the size of the dune we (some of us) climbed this morning: awesome, very weird layover tonight, do google House on the Rock; think alien abductions are a real possibility here...

Day 2: PA, OH, IN

Me at some nasty river while on our walk

Loves Truck Stop

The Diner

Me and My Man, Elvis

Mom by the "Pink Ladies" room. The mens was "Greasers"

View from the crazy steep hill overlooking Dubois, PA

Flatlands...hahah

Some crazy house by the Dunes in Indiana....helloooo hippies!

Hey Hey!

My mom and I are sitting at yet another Best Western, which we have become very fond of..... we are now on a rewards program! Our beds last night were possibly (dare I say it) more comfortable than my beloved Cal-King (RIP, my friend). Mom and I gained some major mileage today. We are currently in Merrellville (I love Merrells), Indiana. We are close to the Indiana Dunes Lakeshore and plan on going for a walk tomorrow along Lake Michigan.

There wasn't too much to see today. Ohio and Indiana are DAMN flat states! There were lots of old and still running farmhouses which were really cool to see. It felt a little silly driving along in the Prius next to a bunch of Mack-trucks. There is a major truck stop chain called "LOVES" and we were planning on stopping there but we never saw another one after a certain amount of time.

Oh I forgot to mention our stay in Dubois, Pennsylvania! Well, it's not much of a town. It must have been a cute town back in the day but is more of a rundown industrial town. Mom and I got up early (well, I could've slept until 12pm) and walked around the town. For whatever god-aweful reason there was a very very steep hill in the middle of this town and we (again, not really me) decided to walk up it and take a picture at the top. Not the most impressive thing in the world but it was a mini-achievement.

Then we decided to go out for breakfast and start our day right. We went to this diner that is so misplaced and so cool. It was a auto-garage turned diner that was all decked out in 50's style decor. Of course we picked the booth with the picture of Elvis at the top. It even had it's own personal jute-box just like Bedford diner used to have! No Rae, I did not get my typical meal. I had Eggs Benedict and it was delicious. And of course there was a sign that said "Motorcycle Parking Only" and I parked right there....so HA!!!!

Well, I'm going to get in my pajamas and relax for a bit. We are now 1 hour behind, which is kind of sweet.

Hope everyone's doing well. I know a lot of people have been calling me and I haven't answered or called back, but it's literally driving, listening to music or books on tape, and then finding a place to eat or sleep. Speaking of books on tape, we listened to Tori Spelling's autobiography, written and recorded by Mrs. Spelling herself.... which was recommended by a coworker who thought I would get a kick out of it and said she had a newfound appreciation for Tori...... well I hated her as Donna and I think it's crap that she thinks that her life is that important already that she not only needs to have a show about her life but she also needs to write a book about it? What the hell?

Consider this my book, people...... any buyers?

Love and be well!

Momma's additions: I still love the Tappan Zee Bridge; wish New Jersey just wasn't there; Pa. is beautiful through the Delaware Water Gap and Chesapeake Watershed National Park and the farms are charming but it's a wide state and Dubois, inspite of great beds at the Best Western, is a sad place among many here ; Ohio is bo-o-o-oring and Indiana is marginally more interesting with a promising Dunes walk tomorrow. Best Western beds are not all the same, old mill towns are. Love diners for breakfast. Tori Spelling...multiple chapters, 5 cds...really? George Carlin's cd tomorrow and a more relaxed day, maybe a manicure and a movie if it's raining again.