It ws still ten days away but Sharon took me on a Birthday trip, of sorts.
We took the dinner train out of Trego , Wisc.. It cost her $95 bucks per person.
you go on a leisurely , slow, trip through kinda-sorta Wisc. country side, and are served a a three course meal.
The first thing was biscuits, two per person, with veggies inside, OK, but needed butter; then Beef Bourguignon with carrots and a pre-mashed baked potato; final item was a chocolate Tuxedo Bomb.
The potato and carrots were actually fantastic. The Beef was, well, hers was over done to the point if you took a fork to it , you could have mashed it like a potato; ime was just beyond bloody red, and rather chewy, plus mine was considerably larger than hers.
The chocolate bomb was FANTASTIC.
Was it worth the money, NO, but I am glad we did it, as any could we-should we, thoughts are gone. The scenery was non-existant except for one area when we crossed a river. Plus as we left at 5:30 PM, it was dark on the return trip (it travel x distance , stop, and go back the way we came) so there was nothing to see , Although, the cars have lights on the bottom , outside, to light up the shrubs along the track.
We stayed at an old fashioned Ma and Pa motel - Island Inn Motel - in Cumberland , Wisc. which was nice but nowadays, find a motel for less than 100 dollars a night , is getting rather difficult, especially in Wisc. where State/local taxes jack it up almost 20 bucks.
We had breakfast at the Island Skillet restaurant, and the food was great and nowadays , low priced. I had a 10oz. sirloin steak and eggs for 15 bucks.
We hit two different casinos, one at Turtle Lake and one at Danbury . The second one used to be called the Hole In the Wall for genuine reason , but nowadays, they think bigger is better.
I came home with 380 bucks more than I left with, while Praise the Lord, she was down a goodly bit but her last pull of the lever, whe won enough that she was Two Hundred bucks up.
That changed her attitude GREATLY, made the 100 some mile drive home MUCH more pleasant.
I do not know what was going on but traffic, fortunately most on the other side of two lanes was HEAVY, string after string of eight to twelve cars. I drove above the speed limit but even though we saw no high way patrol, most were at or just above the speed limit, although I blame that to a great degree on cruise control lazy butts.
All in all a very nice trip, and a lot of Wisc. is nice to drive through, although due to tree variety not very colorful trees.
