We left early Friday morning, dropping the Hounds off at the Parents place, and headed out across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Just a lovely drive - the sky was clear, traffic not so bad, and the leaves were just hinting at turning color. We had lunch in Iron Mountain, MI, before dropping down the eastern side of Wisconsin to Green Bay and then looping up to Sturgeon Bay, WI.
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| The Barbican Inn, Sturgeon Bay, WI |
We arrived in Sturgeon Bay about 5:30 - an 8 hour drive going the way we did - and checked into The Barbican Bread and Breakfast in downtown Sturgeon Bay. A walk was needed to shake off car butt, which gave us the opportunity to select a restaurant. We chose The Inn at Cedar Crossing (of course I forgot to take a picture!) and sat down to a fabulous meal. The Husband had elk and I chose the broiled whitefish. Delish!
We woke Saturday morning to the sound of rain pouring down on the side of the house. Yikes! Breakfast was delivered at 8am - this was the one odd thing about this particular B&B; no community breakfast room. Meals were delivered to one's door, which was nice in a way to sit and have breakfast in your jammies, but it was more like a picnic breakfast than anything. With the misty rainy weather, we were limited to mostly inside activities and headed out to check out a local winery.
The Simon Creek winery was just north of Sturgeon Bay on 120 acres. They only had 22 acres planted to grapes, and had plans to expand further. Tours (if looking at the metal tanks could be called a tour) happened only 2x a day. I got the feeling that this was a "crank 'em through" place: sample the wine, buy the wine, and get the next group in. We bought four bottles and headed out to find a lighthouse.
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| Tis a long way down! You can see the waves breaking on the reef. |
Cana Island north of Bailey's Harbor ended up being our next destination. We lucked out with the rain lifting long enough to allow us to go up top. Loved the wind coming off Lake Michigan. It smells different than Lake Superior - warmer I suppose. As we ended our tour of the light keepers house and grounds the rain began again and we headed to the upper most point of the peninsula (nothing there but the ferry) before dropping back down the western side of the peninsula to Sister Bay.
And wow - we found the tourist hot spots! The western side is where the resorts, shops, restaurants are to be found. Not that we like touristy spots, but they can be fun. But again, it was raining and tummy's were demanding lunch so we just walked the street of Sister Bay and selected Mission Grille. Absolutely outstanding! It was an old church converted into a restaurant and my only regret was we couldn't sit outside on their lovely patio. The meal was delicious and with such a nice presentation I had to take a picture. Needless to say, we left stuffed and happy.
After lunch we continued our drive back down shore, stopping at one Orchard market to pick up some cherry pie and cherry turnovers for later. As we came back into town, we found some live jazz, shared a polish sausage and just sat for a while. Such as traveling is, we called it a day and headed back to the B&B to just chill out and relax.
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