Heading North Again

Last Saturday, we were on the road. It was Spring Break and we decided to head back to New Glarus. It was a rather inauspicious start to the trip. Gloomy skies. Drizzle. Despite the mid-Saturday travel, traffic through Chicago crept along the expressway at a walker's, not a driver's, pace.

Though after hours on the road, the stop-and-go city snarl disappeared on the prairie of Northern Illinois, as the road opened and money flowed into the toll booths.

I had written about the drive to New Glarus in a post last year. This edition wasn't sunny, but arriving at the border, passing through Beloit, and finding the asphalt weave up and over and through the hills of Southwest Wisconsin changes the mood even if the clouds don't fade.

Yet sometimes the clouds thin out. Sandra and I discovered that when we reached our destination. This time we couldn't stay at Hoch Haus because the owners, Barb and Steve, were out of town, so the Chalet Landhaus was our stopping point for the night.

The decor of the inn fit the theme of the Swiss-founded town of New Glarus. Here's a good couple of images of the second floor corridor which connected the main building with the north building.



Looking Down the Hallway


At Sunset

The first night, we lounged a bit in the hot tub and pool located in the south part of the hotel, and then had a filling meal of traditional Swiss food at the restaurant on premise. Afterwards, we settled for the night. Lots of good travel was waiting.