My brother and his family came up to visit us in June, so I left the day before to go to Boston. I wasn't avoiding him, I just had better things to do with my time, ha.
The best vehicle I've rented in my 13 years of traveling out there. It was difficult to take it back.
My coworkers in Product Operations.
We went to a music festival in Milwaukee and saw Foo Fighters and a bunch of other bands. They also had a motocross track:
Then the Foo Fighters! This was near the beginning of their first tour after losing Taylor Hawkins. They put on an awesome show.
Then we learned a fun fact about Milwaukee: it is in the top 10 cities in the U.S. for car theft, averaging 31 car thefts per day. The Kia Boyz are a gang who steal almost exclusively Kias and Hyundais in Milwaukee. Unfortunately, we had a Hyundai, but that ended when we returned to our parking spot. Long story short, the cops had recovered the car before we knew it was gone, but it was destroyed. So now we have a different car (not a Kia or a Hyundai). A long night in Milwaukee:
Our car was in the impound lot with about a thousand other cars. Some people must never claim them.
The windows were smashed out, there was minor damage to the exterior, but the dashboard was smashed up, the steering wheel had holes stabbed in it, and they ripped out all of the wiring under the dash and stripped the steering column. The front seats were messed up as well. So insurance decided that the cost to repair it wasn't worth it.
Also, we got solar panels! So no more utility bills and during the summer we produce enough power for 7 houses. Nifty!
