Tuesday, October 11, 2016

20160930: Wisconsin

After a great visit with John and Pat we departed McHenry, and reentered Wisconsin. Lots of rain and traffic.
We took some time at Port Washington to grab lunch and walk around the wharf area -  which was our first exposure to the Great Lakes. It was quite windy and thus had some good sized waves. Nothing like the Oregon coast, but sizable for a lake. There we saw the 'Dennis Sullivan', a three-masted 'tall ship' tied up along the sea wall. We were able to walk up close and look, but not board. Most of the pictures we took ended up on the blurry side.
North East of Green Bay is a farming and dairy area around Algoma where there are quite a few 'quilt barns' - historic barns that have various quilt patterns painted on them. Out of the eighteen or so listed in a travel guide we had we did find eight.

Stopped at a cheese store, Wakker Cheese, in Kewaunee. Good stuff!
From there we actually back tracked some to Appleton (south west of Green Bay) for the night.