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39. GPS, Grossly Pathetic System Our Global Positioning System was for us a grossly pathetic system. Of course the GPS was not the problem, it was the clowns using it. We needed to find our way from Hartland to ‘Up North’ and specifically to an unimportant dot on the map called Summit Lake. We also [...]

The Changing of a Name. The name ‘America – The Land of the Ziploc Bag’ is formally being changed to the temporary name of  ‘America – Lost in a Registered trademark’ The reason being the word ‘Ziploc’ is a registered trademark. If you are interested in the process, please read on. Email 1 Written to [...]

The owners of the Ziploc Bag brand have informed me that I do not have permission to use their brand in my story. So ‘America the Land of the Ziploc Bag‘ will be called ‘America the Land of the Anonymous Plastic Bag’, until we can come up with a better name. Please if you have [...]

38. Empty Nest Syndrome Well, directly after church we piled into Betsey and high-tailed it to the other side of Milwaukee. Perhaps in this instance a better verb might have been that we ‘MapQuested’ our way to Hartland, Wisconsin. This is relevant because this was one of our last relaxed non-GPS navigated trips, more on [...]

This chapter was gratefully sponsored by contributors to coffee fuel. If you would like to sponsor a chapter of  ‘Clueless in America’, please click on the button. 37. The ‘Holy Trinity’. ‘Cafe’, ‘The Book Shop’ and ‘the Holy Toilet’ Well, you know how much I hate those times where we have to share about what [...]

This chapter was gratefully sponsored by contributors to coffee fuel. If you would like to sponsor a chapter of ‘Clueless in America‘, please click on the button. 36. Shopping; Cute and Then Kohls After a peaceful and subtle Wisconsin sleep, we went shopping. This was at my instigation, first I wanted to see a little [...]

This chapter was gratefully sponsored by contributors to coffee fuel. If you would like to sponsor a chapter of the ‘Clueless in America‘, please click on the button. 35. Please Notice Us, We Are From Wisconsin Californians know that they are loud and obsessed with fast cars. Texans know that they are not really part [...]

This chapter was gratefully sponsored by contributors to coffee fuel. If you would like to sponsor my writing, please click on the button. 34. Emotionally Drained Well the morning came, breakfast was breakfast and then the women enjoyed doing women things. Whereas us men went out and did men things. It was so great to [...]

33. Canada, it is not the USA Well we drove into London as dusk was falling. I had spent hours back home in Lithuania researching driving instructions to our various friends’ houses, and though it was peak hour, London’s busyness was quite placid. We drove though the cool, crisp evening air without taking one wrong [...]

32. It’s all in a road sign. Okay, back to the 10% of our freaking out on the ‘World’s Fastest Goat Track’. One of the things that we couldn’t help but notice were the road signs. American road signs were either written for the stupid or by the stupid which is odd because I did [...]