A Little Help from Our Friends
We may not have mentioned this, but we’ve been doing this trip on a shoestring. Not to abuse the metaphor, but if you were using this string of ours to tie your shoe, you’d definitely think to yourself at this point, “Wow, I really need new shoelaces.” </metaphor>
You may notice that we’ve put a donate button on the sidebar to your right. If you choose to donate, you’ll be taken to a secure PayPal site. We wish we didn’t have to ask, but here we are–in Texas, far far from home. It was supposed to all work out–if barely–but things happen, sometimes all at once.
Every bit helps. For example:
- $50 will buy us a tank of gas.
- $30 buys us a night at an RV park.
- $20 buys us food for a day.
Or, to look at it another way, every dollar you donate will sponsor about 2 miles of travel. Every day we’ll post the names of the day’s sponsors. Sponsor us for five miles or a hundred–either way, we’re extremely grateful.
If our trip has given you hope, inspiration, or some other intangible benefit, and you want to donate, choose the gift or other amount you want to donate in the sidebar, click Donate, and you’ll be taken to the PayPal site.
If you are not able, or your donation dollars are spoken for, we still very much appreciate your participation in our journey, and hope that you will continue to join us.
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Hi Ruby,
Susan from Wisconsin here. Sorry you have never visited us! We are surely not one of the three most undesirable tourist states in the nation!
Madison is a great liberal place where (nearly) everyone rides bikes, lives green, and is well educated. There you could find a lot of people who support gay marriage. Tammy Baldwin, Madison’s Congressional Rep, is gay herself. Plus, some of the western Madison suburbs, like Middleton, are consitently rated among the best places to live in the country.
Milwaukee, where I live, is… not quite so liberal–but there is so much fun stuff to do here! We have the Milwaukee Brewers, who play in a great new baseball stadium, the Milwaukee Bucks (basketball), a great zoo, art museum (designed by Santiago Calatrava), Children’s Museum, Science and Industry Museum (called Discovery World), and Public Museum. Plus a great lakefront (should have mentioned that first), park system, and breweries that give tours where they serve the adults free beer and the kids free root beer. Plus one of the best music festivals in the country the last week of June and first week of July (Summerfest.com).
You’ll be welcomed in Milwaukee by Milwaukee Friends Meeting, to which I belong, if you should care to visit. Our Quaker meeting has been marrying gay couples since the 1980s and we have several married and committed gay couples (as well as singles) in our meeting.
Come visit!
Susan