Cheerful People & Cherries to Top off the Day

Joan's View

Yum Yum

We are loving the journey and today was another great day. We rode 56 miles today so we made several stops. The first stop was in Egg Harbor at the Chocolate Chicken for some coffee. We laughed and talked with Nancy & Sarah, sisters who were vacationing there and sitting outside the cafe. They told us how their extended family of 77 people met there to do fun activities and reconnect. They meet every 4 years at different places in the country. It sounds like a great idea for the Schroeder family in the future.

Nancy & Sarah outside the Chocolate Chicken

Panoramic marina break

The Hitchhiker

We continued on where I picked up a hitchhiker on my fairing, and it rode for about 6 miles with us. Our next stop worked out great because I was in need of a potty break and we came upon a fishing marina with a restroom. We sat in the picnic shelter and devoured some more cherries. We watched a little girl get super excited about catching a pretty good size fish. We know Bud Deland would love it here.

Tony took us on a little different route back to Sturgeon Bay, but we still got to check out the unique houses along the water. In Sturgeon Bay, we saw a huge ship building yard and since the drawbridge was up, we took another break at a park where a musician was playing. It's so nice that the drawbridges here are concrete instead of the grates that can get bike tires stuck in them.

Continuing on, we made another pit stop... wait for it... for CHERRIES! This time it was a U-pick at the Robertson farm. We love U-picks because of the tradition our family has from our RVing days. We've picked cherries (& peaches) in many states. We picked cherries with the Winslows & Fairbanks in the Finger Lakes. We've picked in Michigan many times and have made it a destination because of that fact. We've even picked in Seattle among the list of places. Tony found after talking to a guy at breakfast  this morning that the cherries here are 2 weeks later than usual because of the snow they received in April. How fortunate for us!

Back on the road as we got closer to Algoma, we started to recognize buildings and landmarks, like Bear Creek, because we had been on the same road a few days earlier. We stopped for lunch at this great Cafe and sat outside to keep an eye on our bike. We had a few more conversations there with people asking about our bike and a guy with his rescue dog came to lick us (the dog, that is😛).

One more stop at Piggly Wiggly for some food to take to our bed and breakfast, and just a few miles further, and we are at our bed and breakfast.

We have a door to a patio that overlooks the water of Lake Michigan. It's so peaceful & relaxing!

One more thing - Mondays are are my day with my Grandsons, Luke & Todd. We found a great Mr Todd sign today so I thought it appropriate to also add a picture of Luke & Todd.

My Monday fun

 Tony's View
We had some great routes today. To the right is one of the many neat routes we were on. No whoops today, yea! When we were at the Chocolate Chicken, I ran into some people looking at our bicycle. I went over to talk to them only to find out that they were from Cincinnati. They actually were staying at the same hotel as we did in Two Rivers, The Lighthouse Inn. They were into bicycles and we talked for quite a while. The little girl was just like my daughter Marla. She tolerated all the bicycle talk but you could tell she was patiently putting up with us. In the picture with them, he was typing in our blog address and so I have to make sure I am nice.

When we were talking to Nancy and Sarah, Sarah told us she has never been in a blog before. She can't say that anymore. Funny thing is when we were on the bay side, the street we were on was Bayview and on lake side it was Lakeview. Pretty creative. The beer I got from the local place was brewed in Algoma, where we are staying. As you can see from the picture, it is fermented in small batches. The story on the bottle is interesting. The brewery started in 1868 and went out in 1886 during the civil war, then restarted the company again in 2013.

Looking forward to stopping at The National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help on our way to Green Bay. We are meeting up with Ryan, Penny and Craig Eley tomorrow.