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Offline JCA-CrystalCity

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Hello from Appleton, Wisconsin. We drove from Arlington to Chicago over the course of two days, dropped the toddler off in Chicago with my parents, and now we are exploring Wisconsin, or as much as we can without going inside of buildings. This has meant a lot of lighthouses, and a lot of public parks, and eating at drive-throughs or getting food delivered. The highway rest stops at I-80 are not designed for people who don't want to go inside the rest stop, let me tell you that.

Canton has cool stuff to see but the area is really run down. Maumee, OH - a suburb of Toledo - has a really nice park built around the ruins of a canal that used to go there - the locks have been turned into waterfalls of sorts. Kenosha, WI really impressed me, it has a great harbor area. Racine was a dump (I got escorted off the corporate HQ of SC Johnson, a supposed "family company", but I got the pictures I wanted before that happened) but had the best lighthouse of the trip so far, Fond du Lac had one of the best downtown parks I've ever seen in my travels, Oshkosh was surprisingly run down, and I'll see Appleton tomorrow I guess, haven't had the energy to do anything but hang out in the Airbnb.

Coronavirus has left this part of Wisconsin relatively unscathed; between Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, and Appleton there are fewer than 50 deaths from the virus. Nobody wears a mask, nobody social distances.
racine is where Foxconn was supposed to set up a factory.