Traveling Jacksons

Howdy from the Cheese country! It is Thursday, 19th, and we arrived at George Williams Conference Center on the banks of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Interesting fact - this was constructed for the purpose of educating young men to be leaders hence, the YMCA model was carried out here.
George Williams was the founder of the Y in Europe and the movement spread in the late 19th century. I always love being in buildings that are so old and still in use.

Lake Geneva has a cute little town on its banks called (duh!) Lake Geneva. Very touristy and many water activities one can participate. Don't know if we will have enough time to visit family, hike, swim, take a boat tour and go to the observatory (combining is the only way).

Yesterday was hectic as we drove from St. Louis to Williams Bay, Wi pulling our RV. Our map designated several ways but we thought the fastest way to get from St. Lou to Genoa City (dogs boarded here) was to do the INST 55 route about 30 miles west of Chicago. DON't do this. Traffic at 3 in the PM - traffic lights - going through small towns and when one pulls a RV - you gotta be careful.

To top it off, I called Security at Conference center to reaffirm them letting us leave the RV in the golf course parking lot. Sgt. Segren is so nice and he reassured me to go ahead and do this. Upon calling me back regarding this, my phone kept interrupting me as an incoming "Blocked" call was coming in but I ignored it. (Sgt Segren was calling from a blocked number as well). After I hung up, the "blocked" call kep calling me every 20 seconds even though I would not respond. If I did respond, there was no one on the line. After this happened 80 times (while J drives through outskirts Chicago traffic), I notified At&T. They checked it and saw that it was happening but couldn't get the actual number. They temporarily disconnected my service and reconnected - still getting calls. They said they could change my phone number and gave a recommendation of an app that could trace the number. I called Sgt Segren who apologized thinking it was their system. He called Verizon (I bet Security had more to do then trace this down) which was his provider. Verizon told him that they had no record of him calling my number more than once. So after this continued to happen, I turned it off again, again and again. After 185 callback, it finally quit but what a nerve wracking experience.

Dogs are at the Cedar Dale Pet Resort relaxing and so are we. Getting ready to hike for awhile and then pick up Jennifer, Cliff and Christian at the train station in Harvard, Il since they have no car. They have been in Chicago since Saturday visiting Corby, William and other friends.

Now, unless the storms blows a limb on our RV, we will be fine!

John Hougen, Mira Hougen and Christian preparing to paint