Wisconsin

Well it is odd to travel to a place with 'Con' and Sin' in the name - but that is what I did.
This was a work trip.
I landed at Milwaukee airport on Thursday, worked with the customer for the day and planned to go to the end customer's site in the morning.

I was dropped off at the Grand Geneva Hotel.  It was a really nice hotel. Even better if you have loads of cash to pay for all the extra activities... (it was a resort actually...)

http://www.grandgeneva.com/

I was in the bath room and trying to figure out why I had a remote control in there. Well I pushed the red button and found a TV in the mirror!!

 

Came in handy when getting ready in the morning - watching the news and so on. 

Also:  I did not miss a thing while watching mythbusters...

The site in Michigan was about 8 hours drive away, so thankfully they hired a pilot to take us...

 

The pilot is loading up our stuff in the nose. 

This is a Sessna. Not sure of model number...

 

The flight only took around an hour - so much better than 8 hours drive!

 

 This is the landing strip coming up...

 Landing in MI

Now on the road - we went passed a U-HAUL supporting Ron!

While here apparently Wisconsin had a huge Ron Paul rally!

(which was blacked out by the media as usual). 

Link to 30th March 2012 Ron Paul Rally 

 It was snowing where we were. Quite different to the Atlanta summer weather I came from...

 

After the mission was accomplished I took a look at some mine equipment. 

 This is a scoop. Who knows what sort of crazy machine this hooks to...

 Here are some mining trucks.

This brings me to Clintonville, WI - which has also been in the news recently. Now from my short time in this area I could see that mining was quite popular.

I can only imagine that what is going in in Clintonville is some sort of secret mining operation.
Seems a bit stupid to do a secret mine operation under a town though. Not much of a secret after it has been all over the news...

Check this out - it is a sound recording of one of the 'mysterious booms' :

Link to mysterious boom
.
Sounds like an explosion to me. Like from a quarry (if you have ever heard and felt that).

Well that is the end of the report for now. I am back in Milwaukee and hoping to get some fish and chips in a few moments... :-)