Wisconsin Trip

So, this weekend we moved my sister to Wisconsin so she could start her new job in academia. The driving itself was … ridiculous to say the least. Maneuvering a moving truck through Chicago traffic? Not my idea of an awesome time, but we made it through okay without too much trouble. It took all day, but could have been much more eventful, really.

Saturday we took the Lake Express passenger/car ferry home and got picked up on the other end. I was hoping for some better pics, but the clouds got in the way a little bit. The ferry ride itself was pretty awesome, though I wasn’t exactly prepared for the rolling action–a couple of times we had the old “only water visible on port side, sky visible on the starboard.” Ironically, for six years in the Marines, I never spent a second aboard a ship, so this was a bit of an education, on a pretty still lake.

I also watched Disney’s The Gameplan … with no sound. Turned out, I don’t think I needed it. It was all pretty clear, in a heavily over-acted, obvious Disney sort of way.

They also had food service onboard, which was relatively inexpensive and pretty good, if microwaved. Definitely a great way to travel to Wisconsin. If I can make it to WisCon, I think that’s how I’m going to go, maybe even just travel without the car and rent on the other end. They have a Hertz on-site in both the Muskegon and Milwaukee terminals, which the $140 round-trip ticket for the car all by itself makes rather attractive.

Anyway, had a good time, saw my sister all moved in and set up, and now I’m back, looking forward to a fun week of work. Or, you know, not.

Crossposted with klech.net