Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 6:30 p.m. in "The City."

Yes, I know, I am either early or late, depending on your perspective. However, since it has actually been a few days since my last blog, I'll keep this one short on prose and long on pictures. That will also aid me in not taxing my limited energy reserves as I picked up a virus or bacterial infection over the weekend and so I was barely able to make it to bed Sunday night. I am just now beginning to feel better.

We have a current temperature of 67° under cloudy skies. In fact, when I had the fur-children out for their pre-dinner sojourns, it was trying to rain. There is a chance for scattered T-storms this evening and an 80% chance for additional T-storms tomorrow morning. The sun will rise tomorrow @ 7:29 a.m. and set later @ 7:47 p.m

Meanwhile, I'll mention that the Bears defeated the Seahawks last night 24 - 17.

The Cubs used home-runs by Javier Baez and Kris Bryant to seal the fine pitching performance of Kylie Hendricks who got 8 Ks as the Cubs defeated the D'Backs, 5 - 1. The Cubs now lead the Brewers in the NL Central by 2 1/2 games as they head into tonight's game in AZ @ 9:40 p.m.

My beloved Red Sox eked out another win over the Mets, 4 - 3. The Sox have already clinched their division as they travel to the Big Apple to face the 2nd place Yankees tonight @ 7:05 p.m.

The Tigers are still playing out the string as they lost to the Twins last night, 1 - 6. The Twins and the Tigers square off again tonight @ 7:10 p.m.

Now on to the most important events of the past several days. Mary and I traveled to Road America in Plymouth, WI, Friday, even thought they list Road America as being in Elkhart Lake, WI, where we stayed for two night in what was a marvelous Airbnb. It was a cozy unit on the second floor of a building on Rhine Street, the main street in town. We arrived mid-afternoon at the track and picked up our golf cart and toured the grounds of Road America. We watched a few races and then headed for our temporary home. I confess that the trip was tough on me as the virus/bacterial infection was taking its toll.

A nice view over the patio of our rental.

Inside, the kitchen was spacious and well equipped.

Not surprisingly, we set up our base camp in what we like to think of as our regular location.

A nice companion shared the falling chestnuts with our site.

Careful timing, and I got theses great shots of cars as they sped towards turn #1.

The Sargento Bridge is a fan favorite

Even in the high-speed back straight, I was able to capture some great pix.

A car at full speed was no match for me as it passed under the aforementioned Sargento Bridge.

I liked it!

We were atop the hill near Canada Corner, awaiting the pace car and the participants in the first race we witnessed.

Behind the fence from our regular vantage point, I caught these two cars barreling into turn # 1.

I have a lot more pix, but I'm growing weary and there is always tomorrow. When next I blog, I'll show more cars and the ferry we took on our way home. The ferry takes 2 1/2 hours to cross the "Big Lake", but compared to the multiple hours spent in the snarled traffic of Chicago and Illinois, it was a pleasure trip. Ciao.