July 15th, Monday

Closer and closer to home ! Woke to the crowing of a rooster and the sun shining on us at the campground in Irvington. Perfect ! Headed east again through the State of Wisconsin where most of the country roads are marked by letters and not names. First time we have ever seen this way of identifying roads.

We have dropped to 390m of elevation, straight roads with no mountains, fields of corn and then changed to trees and woods. Just like the Maritimes. We drove along the #8 (north of the major highway #94) thru small towns with well kept properties and small businesses. All the towns were marked with a sign of the town and population even if it was only 93 people. Kind of neat. Met dozens of motorhomes and 5th wheels returning from a Music Fest in Rhineland. (info gathered at a lunch break at a picnic site). Areas along #8 would be defined as a bible belt area by the number of churches in the towns.

We saw a log church, dozens of antique stores, western facades on shops, little traffic, and not many places to get a coffee. Bernie's only complaint of the day. On crossing the Wisconsin - Michigan border we lost another hour and now into Eastern time. One of our laugh out loud moments today was coming to a "steep hill" sign and it was 1/100th of the size we went thru in the last couple of weeks. The second was following a DOT truck putting pylons on the road. It was a hoot because every 6th or 7th would go flying. Things are getting simple :-)

And then we found a great campground in Escanaba, chilled out with a frosty and ended with a steak barbecue