Monday 4th June - Queen's Birthday in NZ5 Jun 2012
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| We’d decided to stay an extra day in Sheboygan to have a look around the area. We breakfasted at the hotel as usual, then went to Z Spot café to get our flat white fix. Travis very kindly gave us a Z Spot t-shirt – that was very kind of him. We decided to head north along the peninsula along Lake Michigan and see where we ended up. We saw an unusual looking power plant a bit north of Sheboygan. I had a feeling it may have been a nuclear plant. We kept going north and at lunchtime we were at a lovely little town on the lakefront called Kewaunee. There was a lovely restaurant right on the waterfront, overlooking the harbor. We chose a table by the window and had a nice relaxing lunch. We decided to not head further north, but to try to photograph an Amish horse and cart if we could. We headed back through Green Bay and Osh Kosh, towards Portage. We found the horse and cart sign and soon enough a horse and cart came by. We slowed right down as we didn’t want to scare the horse, and the driver gave us a “thank you” wave. Before long we saw several other horse/carts, and most of the drivers waved an acknowledgement at us. There was one farmer in a paddock with a two horse team ploughing a field, and several fields had ladies in long dresses and hats (some with young children) tending the crops. It seems like they would have a hard life, but I respect their choice and admire them for it. There are far worse things they could be doing. We got back to Sheboygan around 5.30pm and had dinner at Applebees (a chain restaurant a bit like Cobb and Co) before we headed back to the hotel. All in all we’d done just over 500 kms today. And sure enough, when I googled the power plant we’d seen, it was indeed a nuclear one. The first one we’d ever seen. |
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