Month: September 2014

  • Chapter 84- Doors Open Milwaukee (Part II- In-Depth Tour at Bryant’s Cocktail Lounge)

    For the second installment of my Doors Open Milwaukee weekend, I went to an in-depth tour of Bryant’s Cocktail Lounge, hosted by Wisconsin Foodie‘s Kyle Cherek.  This tour was one of the chances to get a guided tour of one of the sites, and I should mention that members of Historic Milwaukee get first dibs…

  • Chapter 84- Doors Open Milwaukee (Part I- Volunteering at Milwaukee Public Museum)

    Welcome to part one of my Doors Open Milwaukee experience…volunteering! As I mentioned in my original post about Doors Open, I signed up to work a 4-hour shift at one of the MANY sites open to the public for free of charge last weekend, and I was placed at The Milwaukee Public Museum.  I’d missed…

  • Chapter 83- Cross The Rock (Cyclocross Bike Race)

    In cyclocross, bikers race through laps of rough terrain, steep hills, and obstacles in a timed event.  Races generally last between 30-60 minutes depending on the course, and the season runs fall through winter (making weather a huge factor in the difficulty of the event…check out last winter’s post about some below zero action!).  I think the…

  • Chapter 82- East Troy Electric Railroad

    This picture is was taken after a frantic car-unloading session and mad dash to the train that was waiting on us.  I was late to meet my friends at The Elegant Farmer to catch the East Troy electric train.  You see, there’s a Bermuda Triangle that exists for me.  It’s the highway system just south…

  • Chapter 81- Hunger Task Force Farm

    (My friend Raina Johnson wrote a piece for Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service about this adventure, as she’s a freelance writer and fellow Metroparent blogger.  It’s also been picked up by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) I was invited by Metroparent Magazine to have a tour and volunteer session at The Hunger Task Force Farm a few weeks ago.  After…

  • Chapter 80- Skyline Music Series

    If you can access a calendar and read my blog, you will get a sense of my timeline currently.  That said, a few weeks ago was the last in the Skyline Music Series.  I’d been wanting to go to more free concerts this summer, and with it being the last chance to see one at…