Travelog for: Zeke

I got to meet a new friend today!!
Puppy the Cat is from Brazil! I was telling about all my adventures. This is Puppy's first travel destination.

I got to see another state today! 
Though it doesn't look that different from Wisconsin...

We went out to lunch for my host's birthday in a city where her sister works. (Pronounced Win-ona). 
The bluff pointing out is called "Sugar Loaf" (though she doesn't know why) but it's it a landmark here.
There was a grand piano sitting in the lobby of where her sister's office was so we played a little.

She pulled on the side of the interstate (shhh! it's illegal to do this) to get this picture of the ice coming off the bluff! 

When we got back home, we had a new visitor! Bebanda is from Greece and on her first adventure!

Will be going out tomorrow to do more sightseeing! 

We ventured out into the cold today (single digits above 0*F) to see what we could see.

I got to learn what the area where I've been is called and some history and posed for a picture in front of a coulee.

What the sign says:

“The Coulee Region”
Coulee is a term derived from the French verb “couler” meaning to flow. The area before you and the entire coulee region of west central Wisconsin has been dissected by water erosion into a series of narrow ridges separated by steep-sided valleys called coulees. Fertile soils are farmed on the bottom and sides of coulees. The narrow ridges, often protected by woodlands, are capped by erosion resistant dolomite bedrock which commonly overlies sandstone. During formation of the coulees, erosion cut through the dolomite and removed the underlying weaker sandstone thereby creating the valleys. To the north and south of this marker you can view several coulees and intervening ridges and note that State Highway 33 is situated on one of the dolomite-capped ridges. The Wisconsin novelist Hamlin Garland, was a native of this area and wrote about pioneer life in the coulee region.

Despite the cold we ventured up to the top of a bluff to overlook the city. It is pretty neat! But first we had to read some signs and took a picture with me and the American flag (the lights are from Christmas).

This is very cool! You get to see the city of La Crosse and Minnesota and a portion of Iowa (just land).



Pictures are from the south to the north.

The last picture is of the group that did the fireworks on New Years. The bluff is where they launched them.

First picture is us leaving the observation part of the bluff.

Then we went down the road that is very twisty. It's called "Bliss Road".

My time here is up so I got a final shot of my new friends saying "Goodbye" as we wish each other a good journey!

On my way to Pennsylvania! 

I arrived a couple weeks ago to my new host's house... Her name is Sam and she had a bunch of other ToyVoyagers there waiting to greet me!


I hope we will have a lot of fun adventures.

The day after I arrived at Sam's house, another package arrived the next day. It was Prance!

Today, when Sam got home from work, she decided that she wanted to bake some muffins to take to work with her tomorrow.

So that is what we did tonight.

Today we said goodbye to Misko. He is headed home.

Right aroud the time Misko left on his journey home, another toyvoyager arrived... named Bebanda.

Today, Sam stopped on the way to work to get something special for one of the people she works with. It was his 1 year anniversary of being with the company.

She bought him Tiramisu.



Tonight after work, we are leaving to go to New Jersey with one of Sam's friends.

On Saturday, we woke up and visited a flea market in the morning. In the afternoon we went to Popcorn Park which is a zoo that has mostly injured an unwanted animals. You can feed the majority of the animals popcorn! It was a lot of fun. Here we are in front of the camel enclosure.



There were a lot of pretty peacocks just walking around. You could just walk right up to them. Here's a photo of one.



The ground where we were was very sandy. This was due to the fact that we were very close to the Pine Barrens. All the pine needles make the dirt very sandy.

Sam has finally gotten settled after her trip to DC, so here are some photos!

The first day we arrived in DC, we went to Chinatown.

The next day we visited some of the museums and the sculpture garden.



We also got to visit the zoo!



It was a really fun trip! We did some other things too, but it was very crowded and hard to take photos.