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Kentucky Ark and Parks
Marvelous Madison
August 4 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F
Today begins Brian's business portion of the trip. We had breakfast together, and then he headed for his 3 different meetings today.
This begins the relaxing portion of my trip. I had a great workout and then took the nearby walking path for about 1.5 miles. My destination was a coffee house located on the shore of Lake Monona. Such a peaceful place to have my Bible and prayer time.Read more
TravelerLooks lovely. When will you be back?
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TravelerI (Brian) added a couple of Mad Madison pics, related to their love of bicycling. Factoid: over 10% of Madison bicycle commutes to work! Home Wed, late.
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Lakeside Dinner and Walk
August 4 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F
Brian returned from his meetings and hadn't eaten all day. So, we headed to a restaurant called Breakwater. It was on a lovely inlet, and we could see boats going by as we ate.
Afterward, we walked over 5 miles on the beautiful walking trail around Lake Monona.
We saw tons of bicycles, walkers, runners, and a water skiing team that was practicing. It was so cool!Read more
TravelerLots more pics added since Jomar's footprint launch.
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Harley Davidson Museum
August 5 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
Brian had two different meetings on Tuesday, so I acted as chauffer- it allowed me to have the car. I drove to a cute coffee shop for devotions during the morning meeting and then got a manicure during the 2nd meeting.
When his work day was over, we drove to Milwaukee and visited the Harley Davidson Museum. It was a very interesting space that showed the whole history of this iconic company.
There were interactive engine displays, newsreel video clips, and, of course, tons of HD motorcycles! Brian was so happy!Read more
TravelerPics and 2 vids uploaded, now. Brian-heavy bias, here. Jomar did sneek into the wall of tanks pic.
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Traveler Hagerstown used to, may still get 1 of these events - the Hagerstown 1/2-mile. Late July. It was the throttle-on/rr tire-spinning, sideways out of the corner, tire traction limit brain-training (and handle-bar banging close proximity) of flat-track racing that made American asphalt road-racers dominate the world from mid-1970's to mid-1990's. As for so many things in our history, we taught the rest of the World what we were doing, and now they've come back into contention (even a Spanish, to a lesser degree Italian dominance).
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Traveler The family knows I mean I'm going to multi-task some things, often do, when I say I'm going to Buell this! Erik Buell, formerly an engr at HD & road-racer, went out on his own, when HD wouldn't design roadracing superbikes. He still used HD engines, further hot-rodded. Multi-tasking? Buell designs feature multi-purposeness, like that twinspar frame is a fuel tank, too. Rr swingarm, oil reserve. Frt brake, big, single vs twin, bolted to the rim (saves parts, wgt - unsprung mass, at that!). My moto hero in many ways. (I own a Buell 1125RR, their hottest and unfortunately last motorcycle, 2010).
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All good things must come to an end.
August 6 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
Long, feel free to skim this one! My day (Brian) started at my corporation global HQ in N. Milwaukee. I was meeting with a purchasing representative who was joining me at compressor component vendors in WI. He showed me his bldg, the HQ of Johnson Controls. Other than going to a nearby bldg, driving to the correct one, visitors' lot under construction, and small related drama that made me a little late, all was good.

Very nice bldg, and a flagship of future smart controls, efficient and human ergonomics friendly smart-bldg's. That is their business. HVAC/industrial compressor&chillers, lighting, fire suppression, ...etc. Even displaying beautiful outdoors while hiding solar panels across the street. It's very employee friendly in giving a walking path, ping-pong, various recreational activities, and a gym with showers. We even mfr'd cars and small trucks for a time (show pcs., "The Johnson" from 1910-ish). It all makes sense. Yes, it's a little nicer than our Wboro facility :-).

Mid AM to PM was at a local gear and transmission mfr./vendor, then fly direct, home. I'm sparing you the gear details, except 2 pics. Wonder how gears ⚙️ get their involute shape? See hobber tool (bronze color). The other, a big blank, as large as a skid! Gear teeth to be hobbed and finish ground (grinding after heat-treat hardness and thermal distortion). The manufacturing of gears is complex as their initial design and fatigue load capacity calculations.

Home sweet home, as Zach fought road construction and traffic to pick us up at Reagan National airport. Thank you, Zach. (Of course, Brian wrote this one!)Read more
Traveler They don't shy away from the love of eating and drinking here. Of course it's beer capital of America. Not shy when saying, 'drink Wisconsinably'.
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Traveler Intersestingly, on accents of English, Jomar think we covered the sharpest of 'accent-o-clines' as anywhere in America! I.e. Kentucky to Wisconsin, could they understand each other?! It's not that far apart, our destinations.
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Trip end
August 6, 2025

Marvelous Madison

Lakeside Dinner and Walk

Harley Davidson Museum

All good things must come to an end.