Wisconsin 7-23

Today we were up and out early. We hit the road at 9:15 after hooking up and dumping the tanks. We took a county road to state highway 210 to I-35 to Duluth. There was a lookout over the harbor and looking out over Lake Superior. We never really planned to get as far north as the Great Lakes, so it is exciting to be here. Amazing that these huge bodies of water freeze in the winter and cars drive out to the islands on them.

We stopped in Superior, Wisconsin and had a late breakfast after getting visitor information at a visitor center. We noticed a change in the trees and the road kill. In Minnesota and the Dakotas we saw a lot of dead raccoons; here in WI we have seen about 6 dead porcupines already. There are a lot of aspens here too. The forests are really pretty. We are traveling highway 13 along the top of WI along Lake Superior’s shores. After traveling 164 miles we found a county park with campground in a little town called Herbster. We got in at 2:15. It is $17 for just electric, but that’s o.k. we have a full water tank and being camped across the street from the lake back off the highway is wonderful.

It was sunny, in the low 80’s and very humid when we got in, but a big cloud is moving in off the lake and it is cooling down fast. It is still humid though. We are under a thunderstorm watch right now, duh, just have to look outside at the HUGE black cloud over us and see the white caps forming on the lake and hear the thunder!

Gotta go have dinner….