{"id":14235,"date":"2025-08-15T14:52:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=14235"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:38:28","slug":"70-4-days-and-off-to-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/15\/70-4-days-and-off-to-denver\/","title":{"rendered":"70 + 4 Days and off to Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"

We started off my birthday celebrations with a party on Friday<\/a>. On Saturday we went to the Farmers Market and bought probably too much food for people who were going away on both Sunday and Thursday.<\/p>\n

On Saturday night Madison got over 2 inches of rain, but the basement mostly stayed dry, thanks to the landscaping we had done last fall. The east side of the basement, Al’s old room, where it used to leak really badly stays dry, and now it just seeps on the driveway side. Where we had all the junk hauled away, also last fall.<\/p>\n

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Basement pano. Room for band practice again.<\/p><\/div>\n

Parts of Milwaukee got way more rain than Madison, especially West Allis where the baseball stadium is and ‘Tosa.<\/p>\n

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Flooded interstate on the way to the Brewers<\/p><\/div>\n

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Flooded Cafe Hollander in Wauwatosa WI<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Meanwhile we sopped up what leakage we had and headed to Chicago. We had lunch at Little Goat<\/a>, the one up on Southport because they closed their West Loop location that we could’ve walked to from the train. Instead we Uber-ed up to Old Town. Mark had their This Little Piggie, eggs and sausage and a biscuit, that I’d had at the West Loop and didn’t like so much because that day they put a lot of 5-spice powder in the sausage and it was too anis-y for me. I had their Bullseye French Toast, challah French toast with a toad in the hole egg making the bullseye, and crispy chicken tenders. I think I’d like to try making it at home, minus the tenders. Bacon instead.<\/p>\n

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Oh, yea and Mark had a milkshake. Mocha flavor.<\/p><\/div>\n

Then we stopped at the big Whole Foods on Ashland where Rose Records used to be, to get sandwiches & fruit for after the show.<\/p>\n

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Our big entertainment of the night was an outdoor concert with Wilco at the Salt Shed, our new favorite big venue. It was just really great to sit outside and watch Wilco and look off to see the Chicago River and the Sears Tower. Some of these pictures are mine and the rest are from WBEZ, the more horizontal ones.<\/p>\n\n\t\t