Driving through Phillips, WI Was Fun

Our hosts at the Airbnb in Wausau last night told us about this sculpture park.  We had actually seen it in past years as we drove by but hadn’t stopped.  On the way to Telemark, we drove through Phillips.

Fred Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park

    Amazing to find this in such a small town.  It was so interesting -- but how much time did he spend doing this? Incredible.

Getting out the car, we first saw this deer in the forest.

Very attractive sculptures...and shiny and colorful. 

The horses pulling the Budweiser wagon actually look real - go up close and their eyes look like they are looking at you.

The Iwo Jima was terrific!

Liberty

Bonnie’s Café

  Then we needed to eat lunch.  The lady at the stone house said all the restaurants were on Main Street and it would be easy to park on the street.  We found Bonnie’s Café and were able to park right across the street, yes, even with the boat. 

How could we not go here?  Joan’s mother’s name was Bonita, and often called Bonnie.

   Lunch was delicious!  Such a good stop.

And who knew this song?

   

At Myna's Again

As we work our way north from ATL, then Nashville, the Springfield, IL, we then go to Northbook, IL where we stay with our great friend Myrna, whom we met at the St Augustine timeshare and often stayed in Puerto Vallarta nearby her and her husband too for years.  Ron can visit his mother more easily from there and then he can assist with some Projects Myrna needs done.

     You can see we have fun too!

Another Nice Airbnb in Springfield (August 20-23)

We needed to find a new Airbnb place for this trip and found Jennifer’s place (https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/6820370).  It is a gorgeous home and she is an expert hostess, with hundreds of good reviews.  Joan first caught sight of this wonderful yard globe ornament,

and there were many other beautiful things.  She had a small refrigerator we could use as well as being able to use the kitchen, and she found a good place for our ice chest to be inside to stay cool.  The house was just two blocks from the Oak Ridge Cemetery and Lincoln’s Tomb. The cemetery is HUGE and we walked there every day (before going to the storeroom to work.)

Oak Ridge Cemetery (Lincoln’s Tomb)

We loved walking through his cemetery:  so large, and beautiful and so many fancy stones.  Some are very old too, most of those which you can’t read anymore.  The oldest we found (to read) was 1823, but no doubt there were older ones.  Many of course, were very small unmarked and old stones (often those are children.)

 

Lincoln's Tomb

When someone dies unexpectedly and there is no place for them yet in the cemetery, they are brought here.  Thousands came to view the tomb here before moving to a more permanent place and then his body was moved again when the present tomb was built.

The cemetery entrance that Lincoln used (reconstructed)

Apparently died in office.  Another governor's time was cut short too.

Did not find this grave, but it would have been very old.

Vast acres

Spanish American war graves