Road Trips and Hike Reports

I'm writing this almost a week after our trip ended.  We actually got home on Sunday the 28th around 4 pm but I've been dating the blog posts with the day I'm writing them which is usually covering the day or 2 before the writing.  To keep that inconsistently consistent I'm dating this entry for Monday the 29th which was actually my first day back at work. We left Madison fairly early Saturday morning.  Embassy Suites has a well known full breakfast with made-to-order eggs so we actually ate breakfast at the hotel.  The trip on I-94 to Milwaukee went well and we had a few hours to kill before boarding the ferry for Michigan.  We walked around the third ward of Milwaukee which was very charming. We had a treat at the public market , I bought sunglasses at Warby Parker and overall we got a couple of miles in walking around this very historic but gentrified section of town.  The public markets in big cities are kind of amusing to me.  Ostensibly they are...

This trip has been on the books for a long time.  I contemplated having it be a train one way rental car the other trip but ultimately it has taken the originally planned form… Driving both ways. We left Saturday from home quite early which was good.  We stopped at the casino in Nigarga Falls NY which was bad but somewhat fun.  The drive through Ontario Canada to Michigan was better than last time.  Why people near Toronto literally do almost the opposite of what their road signs say (slower traffic keep right) is beyond me, they have worse lane discipline than California or Illinois or any other state I normally hold in low regard for driving basics.  But it wasn’t all that busy and once we got onto ON-403 and later ON-402 there were so few cars it wouldn’t have mattered what lane everybody drove in at all.  It was truly very very quiet.  The (relatively) new 110 KM/h speed limit is a help too since twith even the slightest rounding up that’s easily 7...