Hotel Disgarden Ellison Bay

... is the mother of them all: an average of about 400m deep it would easily accommodate the water of all the other 4-and-a-bit Great Lakes combined.



Door County consists of a string of villages along the lakeside perimeter of an elongated northward pointing granite outcrop steeped in Indian and subsequent Scandinavian heritage. It is bordered by the calmer Green Bay in the west and tempestuous Lake Michigan in the East. The countryside is a mix of ...

... driving along a long stretch of unpopulated highway but as per usual we were taken care of ! Bob pulled over to the side and there was a driveway ! By the way, there was no shoulder to this highway ! I called AAA (NEVER leave home without that !) and the nice man from the house came out and let us park across his drive beside the ditch. The tow truck guy came out and said he would be out the next day if we could sit ...

Another beautiful sunny day with temps in the mid 70's. We drove most of the day. We did stop at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center in Wisconsin. It was so interesting. There was alot of information and a walkout on the 3rd floor that had a wonderful view. We decided to take 2 across the UP. We were eating dinner and Wendy called. I knew Irene, Lyle and her were taking their motorcyles to the UP for a few ...

Julie, Chelsea, Jason and myself are leaving on our summer adventure today. We will be flying out of Escanaba Michigan with stops in Detroit and New York with Palm Beach International being our final stop this afternoon. Hopefully we will reach our home in Cudjoe Key at a reasonable hour tonight.

... fee of 6 Dollars per 20 minutes, as one of us was always waiting outside in the car. So, off we went with both cars to the O'Hare airport and to Thrifty to return the old car. Again, everything went smoothly, and they even knocked off another 60 Dollars, as we complained that in Miami they had given us a higher price for the second driver as posted on the internet. We then decided to hit the ...

... back to Bucharest, the cabbie spoke not a word of English, but he had his radio on, and in a tiny little Dacia cab, 100 meters from the Black Sea in a little Romania town not one person in 1000 has ever heard of in the USA, on comes the Eagles, of all bands - "One of these Nights". I'm not a huge Eagles fan, but anyone growing up in the 70's in California ...

... that, nice to sleep in my own bed. Nice to be able to speak without trying to decipher an accent or use another language. Sooo nice to be cool. Fun to drive a car again after two weeks. A lot of travel...maybe 13 cities in 8 countries in 18 days...exhausting. Anyway...I will load all the pics from the trip this week and post a link here. I write these blogs somewhat for me, to print them out and have a memory of the trip years down the road ...

... placed is not to be missed if you have kids. Make sure to get a counter seat or you will miss the main attraction, which is a large scale (larger than "O", smaller than "G") model train that circles the counter delivering drinks and entrees. The people are friendly and the food is great; everyone had a great time. Collin didn't exactly know what to make of the train but he was certainly enthralled.

... of radar... The only answer is to check the weather in the morning and if it looks bad, to skip work and go early to catch an earlier flight to Detroit and wait there all day for my connection to Dusseldorf. Detroit weather looks clear. I should have thought about this when I booked...I only have an 85 min layover ...

Gills Rock, Wisconsin, is not a formally incorporated village or town, it is the next stop on the highway past the village of Ellison Bay, located in the township of Liberty Grove, and less than a couple of miles down the 'snaky' portion of Hwy 42 that heads to Northport Pier and the ferry ...