Day 16 - May 26

Today was a car tour day. We made a 208 mile loop of the pennisula which contains Door County, WI. We were in lots of small towns which looked surprisingly well established and successful for just a couple of hundred to a couple of thousand inhabitants. As we passed through "historic" Algoma, the townspeople were starting to line up along the downtown sidewalks for the "big" Memorial Day Parade. We stopped at the Door County Bakery & Deli for lunch: 1 sandwich, 1 cup of soup, 2 tiny pastries and 2 sodas - $28. It was good but they are a little too proud of their produts.

We stopped at the Door County Maritime Museum and saw an exhibit on the great storm of 1913 that claimed so many ships on Lake Michigan. Lots of beautiful homes along the shore but they must be retired or summer home for "big city folk" as they seem too expensive for small towns with no industry and so relatively remote.

This is definitely "Luther" land. Lots of big Lutheran churches.





Small towns visited: Two Rivers, Kawaunee, Algoma, Sturgeon Bay, Bailey Harbor, Fish Creek, Sisters Bay, Ellison Bay, Gill Rock, Ephram, Egg Harbor and Alaska (we thought we were really off course when we saw this one).