The trip of 26 miles was rough for Bonnie . . . Someone must use the couch on the bridge . . . just to see if it is OK!?
The Milwaukee skyline as we approach the harbor. The art museum is the sail, bird, airline looking building on the left.
This is a land, across the street view, of this same building after Bonnie did her 9 year old "jump the curb" trick.
We got about town on our bicycles and stopped here to look at "stuff". There was also a nice place to eat inside so we stayed for lunch. The owner saw us reading a card, note, left on the table about supporting local eateries rather than the chains . . . and stopped to chat. We gave him a boat card and told him about our trip. When he and the waitress served our lunch he said . . . lunch was on him and that he wished us well on our journey. What makes this trip so special is the many SPECIAL interested persons we meet along the way.
Having biked uptown, downtown, all-around-the-town, we crossed the bike-path bridge back to the marina and our boat home.
During our second day in Milwaukee Theresa and Don, GREAT ESCAPE, joined us for some of our biking adventures. Their well-behaved dog, Taylor, remained onboard to protect the boats and marina.
Also on our second night in Milwaukee, Mary Ruth, Charlie's sister that sells real estate in Madison, Wisconsin, and is a skilled multi-horse driver (stage coach style but more polished), and judge of those events, joined us for dinner and remained overnight.
Next stop was North Point Marina just outside Waukegan, Illinois . . . it was in the middle of nowhere, but we needed to get near to our next stop which was to be the Great Lakes Naval Training Center (NTC) in North Chicago.
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