Tomorrow morning we'll finally drag ourselves out of Minnesota and head into Wisconsin. We've had a grand time here, wonderful, cool weather, good biking, beautiful lake shores, fun with friends & family.
Today is our 100th day on the road and we haven't even begun to get tired of this. We've traveled only 5,507 miles so the pace is really nice, not too hard on the driver or the navigator. We've found lots of places we've enjoyed settling into for 4-7 days, then get our itch to move on again. Someone today called us "migratory" and I thought that a pretty good name for us. Not quite nomads or gypsies or just wanderers. Migratory...we'll definitely not be in MN this winter!
We keep finding fun things to do. Went on a factory tour at Cirrus today and saw how they build these beautiful little airplanes. Went back to a favorite restaurant - Hell's Kitchen. Climbed a 97 step tower on top of a ridge to look down on the marina where we've been staying on the amazing Lake Superior. This lake contains about 3 quadrillion gallons of water with an average water temperature of 40 degrees, as deep as 1,276 feet, average depth of 489 feet. It's about 1,300 miles to drive around the lake with a surface area of about 31,700 square miles. It is ENORMOUS, the largest freshwater lake in the world, and it freezes in the winter. This just amazes me, that it can freeze. Usually not the entire lake, but it has been recorded twice in written weather history that the entire lake has frozen. Imagine that! 31,700 square miles!
The Hell's Angels are due here in town tomorrow so we will be moving on... Not room enough for all of us migratory people in the same place!
