Wednesday, September 10, 2025
It’s been eight years since we’ve been to Door County and we’re aching to return. We didn’t see half the peninsula on which is Door County so this we plan on seeing much more of it.
Historic District Minominee MI
We head south passing through about ten small burgs along highway M35 until we reach Minominee (8486 souls) and turn onto US 41, the last town in Michigan in which we’ll pass.
Once we cross the Minominee River we’ll be in the twin sister of Minominee, Marinette Wisconsin (10,968 souls) . Marinette is the seat of Marinette County.The first time through here we watched US Navy ships being built in a Marinette shipyard.
Here’s some more information on Marinette: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinette,_Wisconsin
South a few miles is Peshtigo (3000 souls) a town that was devastated in an 1871 wild fire. Between 1200 and 2000 lives were lost yet a bible in a church was untouched.
In order to continue this blog and other important functions like paying bills it was important to put my brains that were on the computer back where I can access them so I purchased another Mac Airbook at a Best Buy. The store is not on our route but not terribly inconvenient.- other than trying to figure out a good route there. Routing with a 35 foot RV with 20 feet of tow vehicle and hitch is not as easy as driving a 16 foot SUV into a parking lot. We only got one nasty horn blast (love you too!) driving into the mall that housed Best Buy. The parking lot was huge and finding good place to park was easy. In a short time we were out of there with the new computer which had been ordered and paid for online.
Green Bay is not only on the southern shore of Green Bay, the Fox River runs through it.
We’re back in the hunt doubling back a few miles and going east on Highway 57 through the north side of Green Bay (104,726). The city is named after the baton which it lies. Highway 57 takes us to a spot just south of Sturgeon Bay where it for no obvious reason turns int0 Highway 42. This is a newer portion of road which bypasses Sturgeon Bay itself. A good portion of the road is a four lane divided highway yet the posted speed limit is 45 mph for miles. We reach the first of two, yes, two roundabouts and lose a lane. I assume the traffic has to be 10 times heavier during the peak season here because I haven’t seen traffic heavy enough to justify a traffic signal and two, yes, two roundabouts on this road.
Green Bay Wisconsin
Although it’s 43 miles to Sturgeon Bay from Green Bay the highway goes through nary a town and even skirts Sturgeon Bay. The next town we actually go through, Carlsville, and that’s our turnoff. Carlsville is tiny population wise, consisting mainly of farms and a few tourist trap shops on the side of the highway. Its census is included in that of Egg Harbor. We follow County Road “I” deep into cornfields and cow farms. One cow farm is huge. Across the street from the farm are huge silos. The county roads around here are not named, they are given a letter of the alphabet.
We turn left on Oak Road and Garmin fails us. We drive right by our destination so the gps resets and we go around the block (blocks are huge in farm country) and we take another run at it. This time we are on the money and pull into Geitner Homestead Equestrian Center.
More on that in our next blog. Until then, Adios my friends.
Travel With Jil and Mike 