Tim & Denise Tiner Travels: 2015 Denise's States Trip- Wisconsin

Well, we did get on that last flight to North Dakota. Fargo was awesome. The people were very friendly. It was a bummer that it was rainy but we got to see what we could. Fargo has a growing economy. They said they had 3 new hotels built there last year. Microsoft has 4 campuses there. It is green and pretty. I learned that it sits right on the Minnesota border. Part of the city is on the Minnesota side but it is called Moorehead. A river divides the 2 states. Pretty great to finally get here. Oh, no oil drilling in this part of the state.

We caught a flight back to Chicago at 11ish. Small plane and full flight. Standby travel is an interesting thing. You have anxiety if you'll get on the whole time. No relaxing until you get that ticket, which is usually after everyone has already loaded. More than half the time you don't get to sit by each other. I really wish I was thinner whenever I get put in a middle seat by 2 strangers. I forget this feeling immediately after the flight and then want a cookie:-). It is amazing too though. I've been able to go to so many places that I wouldn't have without it. Tim is awesome to do this with as he is always researching hotels and places to stay because you can't book anything until you get that ticket. He booked our hotel for tonight as we were walking on the plane. He realized right after he finalized with Hotwire that he had done the wrong night. He called them and talked them in to letting him change nights. So stressful. I'm so glad he is amazing at doing this.

We got to Chicago and went and got the rental car that Tim had reserved. I was so nervous about navigating us out of the big city. It went very smoothly. We are staying in a town about 1 hour away from Chicago. It is called Racine, wisconsin and it is right by Lake Michigan. We checked in and then went exploring. The lake is so huge that you feel like it is an ocean. We walked along it for awhile. The weather is perfect today. We had looked up restaurants for tonight and had found one that was featured on Restaurant Impossible. I love that show and told Tim that was where we were going. It was about 20 minutes north of where we were staying. It was called Mike La Susas. It was really good. The special tonight was that all the appetizers were $5. We got calamari and something they called Italian nachos. Both were incredible. The baked pasta wasn't as good as Neza's but it was still good. We decided that we would go on to Milwaukee as we were only about 10 miles away and find dessert. I googled "best desserts in Milwaukee" and they said Babe's Ice Cream. I put it in my gps but goofed up somehow and navigated Tim very successfully to some other restaurant. Tim thinks I try to multitask too much. I think I'm terrible at technology. Who knows? Probably a little bit of both:-). We shrugged our shoulders and put in the right address. So glad we did. The ice cream was phenomenal. The tour of Milwaukee was good too. There are tons of great buildings in Wisconsin. Love the architecture. We came back to the hotel and went swimming and hot tubbing. A really good day today. Off to tour Chicago tomorrow. I've never been there. Tim is researching hotels right now. Good man. I'm tired. A good kind of tired.

Our rental car. It is brand new.