Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Spent our last two days in Milwaukee, Wi.

The first day we were in Milwaukee we visited a place that was on Diners Drive Ins and Dives and found the food to be only so so.  Yesterday we visited the Miller Coors Brewery which was a very good tour and also very informative.  It seems the best beer makers came from Germany since the ancestors of Miller's and Coor's were German.   The tour lasted an hour or so and then they drop you off at the hospitality area were you get to sample some of the product.  While the tour was very good the Bud tour in St Louis was much better.  It is still amazing to see how fast they fill the cans and bottles going down the production line.  The best thing about the tour in my opinion was going under ground to the caves where they used to put ice from the lake to help keep the beer cold in the summer. 

On Wednesday we hit the Harley Davidson Museum.  Saw a lot of old and new motorcycles and movies of how the company was purchased from AMF in 1981 and later to become publicly traded to be the successful company that it is today.  The number of new motorcycles that are very old and on display is amazing.

After the Harley Museum tour we drove around the city in order to see other parts of Milwaukee.  We  had a great time in this city and would like to come back.

The only downside to our stay in Milwaukee was the "dirty" electricity we received at the Jellystone Campground we stayed at.  Our appliances would go off and back on and the ground fault interrupter would kick off.  I went out to turn the breaker on and off and the neighbors ask if we were having problems with our electricity.  I told them we were and they informed us that the people on the site before us were having the same problem.  I called the camp office and they came down and checked the pedestal and said they had 115 volts on each leg.  I told them I think the problem was a short somewhere in their system which they would not be able to detect with just one check of the voltage.  I used to have a surge protector on our motorhome until it fried in Albuquerque, NM.  We had to have it removed and have not replaced yet.  After our experience at Jellystone I ordered a new better surge protector which I will hard wire to the motorhome when we get back to Warsaw. 

Enjoy the pictures for those of you who may still be monitoring the site. 

Thanks  Jack


 Here are the beers that Miller's Coor's produces
 The Miller icon




 In the main cave

 At the Harley Museum now
 Replica of Easy Rider bike
 One of the older bikes I believe this one is a 1933.
 Me on my favorite Harley an Ultra Classic.


A picture of one of the old neighborhoods we drove through
 
This next picture has nothing to do with Milwaukee but is one of our friends Joann and Wally who we plan to see this November on our way to Titusville, Florida where we will be spending the winter, God willing.  This winter we will be closer to them than last year and will be able to see them every so often, hopefully.