On April 6, we had waited two weeks after our 2nd Covid vaccination so we ate out in a restaurant for the first time in about a year. It was fun. Yesterday, we drove to La Crosse, Wisconsin, about 120 miles away and stayed in a hotel overnight. We took the cheaper alternative of one bed but we found that we might be happier with two beds. Lynn suggested two rooms. Noise, disturbance, nighttime sighs and snores, insomnia can create the need for getting up and skipping rope for a while. That's hard to do without waking a nearby sleeping person.
In the early 90's, Lynn completed her doctoral degree and took a job at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. We had lived in Stevens Point for 20 years and thought the beautiful hills and river junctions of La Crosse would be a nice change. We moved there but I kept working at UW-Stevens Point, too, as well as UW-La Crosse. For a while, I drove weekly from one city to the other but it became clear that I had a better future at Point. Eventually, Dr. L. Kirby joined me in Point fulltime, after our excellent son-in-law builder built us a new house.
We have never been our current ages before and we do now find stairs, distances, hours more challenging than we used to. This trip showed us that travel of some types is still good for us and fun and stirring. However, we have traveled quite a bit and we have diminished appetites now.
Stevens Point is about half the population of La Crosse but the two branches of the University of Wisconsin are closer to being the same size.
