Hey, it's been awhile! We have been in the relatively "wilds" of northern MN and WI where wifi (even Verizon) is, if available at all, slow and cumbersome.......so I just gave up on it! We are now just south of Milwaukee in the town of Caledonia, finding that the choice of RV parks is fairly narrow. We picked a doozey this time.....but should have known with a name like "Yogi Bear's Jellystone RV Park". If you have 8 kids and 2 dogs, are overweight and have a tent trailer and lots of tattoos, it's a very cool place to be! We've made it here from the last blog in beautiful Lake of the Woods in MN, where we did go fishing for a day out on the lake by the same name and caught a whole limit of walleye which they deep fried (of course!) for us in the bar afterwards. We stayed in a great place "Lake of the Woods RV Park" who our new best friend Earl had just purchased......very fun.....we were there for 5 days and did some sightseeing and bicycle riding and just sitting around our personal campfire (there is always a fire pit at each campsite made from an old truck wheel!) enjoying swatting the mosquitoes, which have abated, by the way.....we think they sufficiently poisoned our blood so no other insects want us! We left there drove to Tower, MN where we lost some $$ at the Fortune Bay Resort and Casino. The next day we took off on a terrifying but beautiful drive thru the Iron Range 75 miles on twisty narrow Hwy 1 with no shoulders and overhanging branches of big trees....Sybil driving, of course, she's a magnet for road peril! We emerged at Silver Bay on the shore of Lake Superior and headed on down to Duluth and stayed just outside in Hermantown. We drove to Hayward to see Ann & Niles Vernon, our buddies from SaddleBrooke who have a most beautiful house on Lake.......Something! We also made a stop at the Fishermans Freshwater Hall of Fame....see the big bass picture! We had dinner in Duluth (great city with one of the worlds best harbor/shore walks!) with more SB friends, Tom & Irene Perry after we watched the "big boats" come into the harbor for the weekend regatta. We left there and continued on to the most beautiful of all drive 95 miles around the Apostle Island National Seashore and down to Minocqua on Lake Tomahawk for 2 days before leaving for Green Bay and on to Door County.....out there on the finger in Lake Michigan. It's just like Cape Cod....with quaint farm houses, wineries, lots of dirt roads to explore. We took a day to take the car and bicycles to Washington Island, off the very tip. Highlight food was a "fish boil"....see the flaming pix above (hopefully, they will upload!). They use chunks of whitefish and boil them to perfection along with whole onions and potatoes......sound awful?......try it! It's just the best....they serve it all with cold slaw and cherry pie. This all took place in the town of Ephraim (but they have them everywhere....it's a tradition) which is a dry town so we drank lemonade with this great meal......sigh. We loved Door County, do put it on your travel list, we were there for 8 days then headed out for Milwaukee on 8/10 where we are now until Sybil flies out Thursday for SF for her granddaughter's BD and Peter takes the RV and car to Kansas City destination over a 10 day period. He will then fly to AZ and meet Sybil and we'll take off for Puerto Penasco for two weeks.
Yea! We've made it to 2 baseball games; saw the Twins beat the Rangers at Hubert Humphrey Stadium in Minneapolis and yesterday saw the Brewers beat the Nationals here in Milwaukee at their awesome stadium.
Well, vicarious armchair travelers who wish you too were spending $3.80/gallon for gas at 6.5 mpg, this will be the last blog until we return on 9/17 to Kansas City where we are leaving the RV and car for the month. We'll then continue south then west back home....somewhere around the end of October.
And, YES!, we are enjoying it so much that, despite the RV steering wheel locking up in Port Washington when we parked on a small hill and turned the wheels into the curb.......we had to unhook the tow car (lessening the weight on the front of the coach - from about 30,000 to 25,000 lbs!) to free the steering wheel and start the RV...........we are going to do it again next year!!!!
Our very best to all of you out there.....sorry this was so long but it's been awhile......hope the pictures upload...if not, we'll do a subsequent blog!
Sybil & Peter
