Day 27 – Ashland, Wisconsin (Thursday May 28, 2015)
I left Superior happy to put the bad memory (re: traffic) behind me and set off east.
I think I had lunch in Iron River but I can’t quite remember because I am writing this a week later. Anyway I had lunch. I am sure I had lunch.
I travelled less than 70 miles today. I could have and should have gone farther by the people in Wisconsin didn’t have any confidence that there was anything beyond their border. No one could really give me a good description of the towns to the east – in Michigan – and I didn’t particularly like the prospect of travelling distances that were too long to cover in the daylight.
So I stayed in the Best Western in Ashland. (I had supper somewhere too but it was not as memorable as lunch.) The hotel was a 1980ish reconstruction of a historic hotel that apparently was burnt down twice. The hotel was nice but it didn’t have a laundry and, to be honest, the historic architecture and history was lost on me. All I needed was a bed and an uneventful sleep.
The property was on the shore of Lake Superior that is adjacent to a small marina. It sat next to another property that had some chemical contamination – big tourist draw. I’ll have to ask David what polyaromatic hydrocarbons are. With all the signs, fences and big tent like buildings like they have in the X-Files, they can’t be good. Apparently they were in the water too. There were information posters assuring the public that as long that the goo wasn’t disturbed there was nothing to worry about. Pretty disturbing. But they were doing their best to show professionalism and reassure us all. Good thing I have had all my kids.
