Year: 2017

Things we should have also seen along the way. Seth Peterson Cottage ( I want this!) Bernard Schwartz House – Still Bend Kentucky Knob – Really should have done this, we were soooo close, just didn’t know about it. Chicago – great city to visit and still several FLW sites we’ve not seen (yet!). Things Read More …

We’re on the run for home now. You know how it is when the road trip is coming to and end and your looking forward to returning to the comforts of home. It’s a 7hr drive with a few gas, restaurant and shopping stops, but basically “boogie to the border”. Crossing back to Canada is Read More …

Day 9: Mackinaw City to Duluth. It’s still rainy and windy as we leave Mackinaw City over the bridge and on to the southern shore of Lake Superior. As we cross the bridge you can see Mackinaw Island in the distance and I’m remembering the trip my parents took me on to New York, NY Read More …

The weather has really turned over the last couple of days. It has cooled off considerably from the sunny +26°C earlier in the week to about +4°C and rain.  We leave Belle Vernon and take the Interstates, tolls and all, to Mackinaw City just to mix up the return route and see some of the Read More …

Here we are, at probably the FLW highlight of the trip, Fallingwater. How did we get here? The original plan was to do the FLW Trail as established by Wisconsin Tourism. Also, a nice review of the trail. This would have left us in Racine, Wisconsin. Well, Racine is close to Chicago where there is Read More …

Not too much to report here on Day 6 as this one of the bigger pure driving days of the trip. As we leave Racine at about 9am we’ve been on the road for 1583.6 km. Tonight, after 9 hour of driving plus stops, lunch etc.  we’ll be in Belle Vernon, PA about an hour Read More …

We’re in Racine, WI today and tonight so very little driving on the agenda today. We have two tours lined up with a little shopping planed in between. The morning tour is for Wingspread, the house designed by FLW for Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr., then the president of S.C. Johnson, We arrive at about 9:45 for Read More …

What city is this today? Oh yeah, we’re in Madison WI.  (yesterday) 1st stop is the First Unitarian Society, of course another FLW design. Again, their tour schedule doesn’t exactly work for us so we just “drop in” and the nice lady at reception lets us look around a bit and tells us a little Read More …

Day 3 has us in Spring Green, WI and after checking out of the Spring Valley Inn, a very FLW styled motel, it’s a short 10 minute drive to Taliesin for our tour. We check in at the Visitor Center and do a little shopping in the gift shop prior to the start of the Read More …