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On our first day, we went to a Maritime Museum at the northern tip of the peninsula. We saw a sign with the explanation of why the Edmund Fitzgerald sank […]
Travel With Us — At Your Pace
We’re a couple in our 70’s who love to travel and find new and interesting places. Come with us and experience places you may have visited, places you never knew existed, and places you’d love to go to, At Your Pace.
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This group of posts takes a few side trips in South Dakota. First we go to De Smet where Laura Ingalls Wilder lived as a child and young woman, then to Sioux Falls to see South Dakota’s version of Niagara Falls, before we get back to the Missouri River in Chamberlain, South Dakota, where the Corps rested and recuperated after working hard going against the current. Finally we drove north to Bismark, ND, for the 4th of July and the Corps of Discovery’s winter of 1804-1805 at Fort Mandan.
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Tuesday saw us at another maritime museum in Sturgeon Bay on the canal between the bridges. The highlight was getting to explore an actual tug boat. Built in 1919, it […]
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We went to the Door County Historical Museum on Sturgeon Bay in the afternoon while it was raining outside. The entry room was so interesting, because a local taxidermist had […]
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The last day in Door County was so cold and windy. Take a look at the waves at Sister Bay on the Sturgeon Bay side of the peninsula. Since it […]
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Curiosity led us to wonder how Door County developed. The first residents were Indians who hunted, fished, and trapped furs. When the French trappers came, they traded with the Indians. […]
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Debra Stewart
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I did not realize his (JD) home was intact after Katrina.
I learn a lot from you.
Thank you.
Stay warm.
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Rob
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Does that map mean you have never been to Nebraska or Idaho?!? Praying for safe travels…
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