On May 2nd, my church, Medinah Baptist Church, spent the day at a park in the Village of Bloomingdale, IL. We turned over planting beds, planted flowers, mulched trees, raked leaves and more. We did our best to leave our mark on Bloomingdale. It was a great day!
December 12, 2013 We arrived to Addison, IL about dinner time. We’re staying with friends Ed and Alice F at their home in Addison for our first 2 nights. We stopped at Uncle Harry’s Ice Cream to say hi to owner Leif Nelson and to pickup 2 quarts of ice cream I called ahead and…
Our friends from Dallas, Terry and Carol H have been hanging around the midwest following the 2009 North American Heartland Owners Rally in Goshen, Indiana in mid-June. Terry had been wanting to try Chicago-style pizza from Gino’s East. So on the 20th, they met us in Naperville for some ‘Za. They liked it. After dinner,…
Nancy and I spent a couple of days (June 2016) in Divernon, Illinois and the surrounding area, researching Nancy’s ancestors. We spent time at the Divernon library and a couple of area cemeteries. Follow this link to see all the pictures we took in the Divernon, IL area.
Zoom Map I am in Granite City, Illinois – almost St. Louis, Missouri. I am overnighting here at the KOA on my way to the 2009 Escapees Escapade at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia, Missouri. Got me a nice 50 amp pull-through, jsut a couple spaces down from where I stayed in 2008 on…
December 16, 2013 Another busy day in the Chicago area. We had our annual meeting with our Financial Planner at Vantage Financial in Arlington Heights, late this morning. After our meeting, we had lunch with our planner, Sam S at Salsa 17 – a Mexican restaurant around the corner. We had fresh guacamole made tableside…