{"id":2176,"date":"2017-11-10T17:10:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T23:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2017-11-10T17:10:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T23:10:03","slug":"frank-lloyd-wright-road-trip-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/10\/frank-lloyd-wright-road-trip-day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Lloyd Wright Road Trip &#8211; Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The morning tour is for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scjohnson.com\/en\/company\/architecture\/wingspread.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wingspread<\/a>, the house designed by FLW for&nbsp;<a title=\"Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr.\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herbert_Fisk_Johnson_Jr.\">Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr.<\/a>, then the president of <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"S.C. Johnson\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S.C._Johnson\">S.C. Johnson<\/a>, We arrive at about 9:45 for our 10am tour and are greeted by a closed gate and an intercom system. Apparently we&#8217;re &#8220;early&#8221; but the nice gentleman on the intercom opens up the gate for us.<br \/>\n<a title=\"IMG_1493\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/38263496356\/in\/album-72157688292668961\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4524\/38263496356_6de66268a0.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1493\" width=\"500\" height=\"208\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nWe park and wander around the grounds for a few minutes and then congregate with the others on the tour in the living room.<br \/>\n<a title=\"IMG_1497\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/24448197948\/in\/album-72157688292668961\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4517\/24448197948_d2541303b1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1497\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;After some shopping and lunch we&#8217;re off to the next tour of the SC Johnson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scjohnson.com\/en\/company\/architecture\/wright-buildings\/Wright-Buildings_Administration-Building.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Administration building<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scjohnson.com\/en\/company\/architecture\/wright-buildings\/Wright-Buildings_Tower.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research Tower<\/a>. Sadly, they too don&#8217;t allow photography inside the buildings and there are lots of security folks keeping an eye on things so, just outside shots.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a title=\"IMG_6834\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/38318544011\/in\/album-72157688292668961\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4579\/38318544011_b90c5b3c57.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6834\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a title=\"IMG_6839\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/38287147642\/in\/album-72157688292668961\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4578\/38287147642_7063d3dde3.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6839\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We have dinner down on the waterfront at a marina overlooking the lake.<br \/>\n<a title=\"IMG_1576\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/24448279258\/in\/album-72157688292668961\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4516\/24448279258_fa8244a80a.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1576\" width=\"500\" height=\"239\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nand take in a nice sunset.<br \/>\n<a title=\"IMG_1581\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/24448282358\/in\/album-72157688292668961\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4547\/24448282358_1469312599.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1581\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nBack to the hotel in downtown Racine to rest up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/maps\/dir\/Racine,+WI,+USA\/Fallingwater,+Mill+Run+Road,+Mill+Run,+PA,+USA\/@41.2366823,-85.8986703,7z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x88054254f4ab541b:0xf4f6da64e15e1aa!2m2!1d-87.7828523!2d42.7261309!1m5!1m1!1s0x883533f74d79e731:0x6e162bd3790a9ab8!2m2!1d-79.4679426!2d39.9062419!3e0?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all day drive<\/a> to Fallingwater in Bear Run, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHsm7A2CiP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day 5 photographs<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/06\/frank-lloyd-wright-road-trip-day-4\/\">yesterday<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;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&nbsp;Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr., then the president of S.C. Johnson, We arrive at about 9:45 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}