On to Door County Wisconsin

After spending nearly all day inside the motorhome on Saturday trying to rest and let the antibiotics do their thing to help us to get to feeling better, we were ready to hit the road Sunday morning.  We pulled out of the campground around 8:45 am and began heading down some Wisconsin country roads that looks a lot like some country roads in Tennessee.

Everything is so green and it seems like just about every field has something growing in it:  corn, soybeans, cabbage, and even Christmas trees!

Speaking of Christmas trees, you know you are way up north when you see snowmobile signs on the side of the road!

Within a couple of hours, we begin driving around Green Bay and caught a glimpse of the Lambeau Field off in the distance.

We continued driving northward on Hwy 57 towards Door County which is the peninsula of Wisconsin that sticks out into Lake Michigan.  We drove across a drawbridge that took us across Sturgeon Bay...

...and then continued up the eastern side of Door County until we reached the town of Baileys Harbor where we were staying.

We pulled into Beantown Campground and got set up on our campsite.

After eating some lunch, we drove into town to the visitors center to get information about things to see and do in Door County.  The man working in the visitors center told me that the temperatures were unusually hot right now.  It was 84 degrees.  I told him it felt great to me!  Normal temperatures in Tennessee for this time of year are in the 90s with about 100% humidity!  After giving us a lot of good information about things to do and see, we drove to a little convenience store to pick up some milk.  The bay behind the store was just too pretty to not take a picture.  :)

When we got back to the camper, I looked through all the brochures to try to get us a game plan for what to see and do starting this evening.  We packed salads in a cooler and headed to the north end of the peninsula.  One thing we have noticed while driving around Door County is that most of the roads are in great shape and appear to have been recently paved.

Our first stop was to hike a 1/2 mile round trip trail to Door Bluff at the Door Bluff Headlands County Park.  The trail was listed as easy but was kind of steep in places...

...and covered with lots of tree roots.

We were able to catch glimpses of the Green Bay side of the peninsula as we were walking toward the bluff.

The trail was not marked very well but we reached what we thought was the end or at least as far as we were going to go.

It was a long way down to the bay below.

On the way back, we saw a little more of the bluff in the woods.  The stones were so squared off it almost looked like it was man-made block wall...

...but with trees growing on top of the bluffs.

After we got back to the car, we drove back north a short distance for another view of Lake Michigan from this boat launch.

Then, we began driving south along the east side of Door County and stopped at Ellison Bay County Park where we found the perfect place for our dinner.

After dinner, we walked out for another view of Green Bay.

And then we sat and waited for the sun to set.

We walked over for a better view and watched the slow set over Green Bay.

One of the places the gentleman in the visitor center told we had to visit was Wilson's Ice Cream so that was our last stop.

I think a lot of people like Wilson's Ice Cream.  The place was packed!  Chuck and I shared a single dip of Coconut Joy ice cream that had coconut and little bits of chocolate in it.  A nice treat to end the day!  :)