We did a little shopping at the Gitche Gumee Landing Giftshop and the Nonesuch Gallery (aka Brad's Guitars) and then we packed up and started heading south on US 45. We could have followed this highway from Ontonagon all the…
Lake Superior has fifty-six lighthouses along its 2,730 mile shoreline. One of them -- a retired one -- can be found in Ontonagon. The current Ontonagon Lighthouse was constructed in a "schoolhouse" style in 1866 to replace an older wooden…
Highway 45 continues north from our overnight stop in Three Lakes. It goes through the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan all the way to Lake Superior. I've lived in Wisconsin for forty-eight of my seventy-three years but have only been…
Except for our usual summer week on Washington Island, we haven't traveled anywhere in almost two years. With the weather forecast for a warm sunny week, it was time to make an escape! So, we loaded up the car and…
As you would expect to find in many large old European cities, Munich has palaces. The Residenz, on the edge of Old Town in central Munich, is the former royal palace of the Wittelsbach monarchs of Bavaria. It was not…
Sitting only 30 miles from the Alps, Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria. It's Germany's third-largest city behind Berlin and Hamburg. Many consider it to be one of the most livable cities in Europe. Arriving at…
We caught a train in Munich and headed south to Füssen, a small German town in the Bavarian Alps about a mile from the Austrian border. Though we had already visited castles on the Rhine River, we were on our…
We got up early to take a walk before breakfast. The streets were quiet and only a few other people roamed the town. Yesterday's tourists had either gone back to the cities or were still asleep. The sunlight peeking over…
Catching the morning train out of Bacharach, we left the Rhine River behind. Its upstream path continued south to its birthplace in Switzerland; our path swung to the southeast. In Germany (other European countries, too, I suspect) you can get…