Wednesday, July 29, 2015

NORTHWEST CHICAGO AND BEYOND

Well, it is July 29, and we are now in Union, Illinois.  We are at a very nice Koa, we got in easily but getting out was another story, tight turns and flower boxes all over, but beautifully manicured lawns and overall in the country, cornfields and fun.  We got to do a few things while we were there.  We went to the Volo car museum, about 20 miles away.

However, on the way we stopped at a vienna hot dog place for lunch.  It was pure heaven.  Then we got to the museum, more pure heaven.  There were 6 barns full of beautiful cars, most for sale, restored and gorgeous.  In some of the barns were cars from the movies, and tv.  We saw a short movie about how they made the batman cars.  We went in and passed through a dusenberg exhibit and then they had a whole military exhibit, which was so interesting, outside and in were memorabilia everywhere, even a playground for the kids and a picnic area.  There was also a cute Betty Boop cafe for lunch and had an animatronic animal trio playing fifties tunes, joel and I shared a hot fudge sundae.  We had a wonderful time there and the photos tell the story, then then we had dinner with joels childhood friend, bob anders and his wife barbara.  They drove an hour to come to see us and we had dinner at a german style restaurant.  The next morning before we left for Wisconsin we went to a railroad museum and the photos also tell the story.  We are on the way to the Wisconsin Dells today and will be there for 5 nites.



These of some of the restored classic cars


These pics below of all the special cars from
tv and movies, blues bros, ghost busters,
teenage mutant ninja turtles, beverly hillbillies
Joel with the general from the dukes of hazzard
Kitt, the knightrider car, back to the future de lorean
Batmobile, jalopy from the movie Grease
Herbie and Me
Marilyn Monroe Car
Flintstone Movie car
Batmobile from the Dark Knight movie
Joel's friend bob anders and wife barbara
Joel and I













































Above pic of old railroad depot
below of first horsedrawn train car




Lots of great trains 



And we think we have big wheels


This is a waiting area in Chicago, check
out the potbelly stove for folks to keep warm


1 comment:

  1. The visit to the car museum sounds like fun..and Ronnie would have been in "classic car heaven" too. That is a great picture of you and Joel.

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