Circle Trip - July 3, 2020 - Day 7


Day 7: Door County

 The morning brought another beautiful day. 

 As always, our morning challenge was to feed Magellan. We could have stopped for an "all-you-can-eat" breakfast at Paul Bunyan's. But we're more refined than that.




 So we searched for a diner, and with blind luck, found this little place.



We drove to Door County, and had to feed Magellan again. We stopped into a Northwoods tavern to do so:

Buttercup is so enamored with bratwurst (what he calls a "braatwurst") that he ordered a bratwurst patty sandwich. The owner of the tavern gave him language instruction, and told him it was a "brot wurst." I then had to include language instruction on how to say "Leinenkugel." I finally gave up, and told them to just ask for a "Leinie" and he would receive a beer. 

 The Boys loved the tavern, as they were playing Patsy Cline on the juke box. I don't know who that is, but it sounded really old. 

 On the way out of town, Buttercup stopped into a consignment shop to see what he needed. I think he needs a side car on his motorcycle.


There is a restaurant in Door County called "Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant and Butik." The restaurant has a sod roof, and goats graze on the roof. 

Buttercup found a newspaper and reported that someone had objected to the goats on the roof, and the case made it all the way to the United States Supreme Court - which rejected the goat-hater's petition. That God for that. We need to have important issues of the day resolved. 

Taps:

We spent 370 miles on the road today, driving from Minocqua to Door County, Wisconsin, and circumnavigating Door County.

Tomorrow, it is an early rise and then the drive home. 



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