BACK TRACKING BUT SEEING IT DIFFERENTLY

Tony's View 

We started out later today, knowing that we only had 40 miles to get to the next stop. We pulled out of the hotel/campground parking lot onto our favorite bicycle trail. This trail runs right along Lake Michigan and shows off the many colors of blue Lake Michigan shimmers. We followed many of the same roads that we did on the way up north. It is still amazing to us that we saw different things than what we saw last week. The picture to the left was a place we stopped to take a break and talked to many people parking here and walking to the lake.

The picture to the right is another place we stopped for a break which was about noon. Many employees were leaving for lunch. This is the location where Kohler makes their generators. The signs says "he who toils here hath set his mark". There were too many cars going by for me to leave my mark. My mark would of been similar to what dogs do. 😆
We went on from here and got into Sheboygan.  I made sure the route was detoured this time so we could go to DeLand Park. You see our good friends and neighbors across the street are the DeLands.
I have to say those nice things about Bud and Theresa Deland because they take care of our house when we are gone and they let us visit them in Florida in the winter. It was a cool park and it's claimed to be the best beach in Wisconsin.

 We took our picture by two of the bigger Deland Park signs. Notice the potential rip current. We had the guy taking our picture to take it at the right time.




In the picture to the right, I was looking over DeLand Park beach while standing by our bicycle. Joan decided to take a walk to the beach to check it out. She took off her cycling shoes and socks, and walked out there. The picture below shows her walking out to the beach. Once she gets back, she used my towel to clean off her feet. Yes, my towel.

To the left is the remains of a three masted schooner named The Lottie Cooper, a recovered wood ship. It was wrecked on April 9, 1894 and 6 men died. There was several plaques explaining the entire situation. After we left there, we went to a restaurant that was farm fresh healthy food. A lot of cool food, but I walked out still hungry and it was expensive. From there we went to the hotel. The hotel has a fancy pool with slides, a hot tub and several other things. We got to witness a 7 month old boy get to go swimming with his Mom and Grandma. They were so excited that they called in the Great Grandma and Grandpa. Tomorrow we are going to Holy Hill which will be a 55 mile ride. We adjusted our route to Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians. Clyde and Carol are going to pick us up there with our truck.

Joan's Side Note

Smiles at DeLand park:

Lunch & keeping an eye on our transport

1. There was a chance of rain today, but we had all clear skies.  I kept my jacket on because it the high was only in the low 70s. After checking out DeLand beach, I walked up to use the foot wash and pressed the button. Oops, the shower hosed me... wrong button. Good thing I was prepared for rain.

2. While Tony was waiting for me on DeLand beach, some young guy asked him if he was playing Pokemon Go.