We continue to explore the Great Lakes area. From Chicago we took a Greyhound bus to Appleton, where I had my only working day a half day meeting to select candidates for the Hall of Fame of paper making area. The day also happened to be my birthday and in the evening Pekka took me to see the Broadway musical School of Rock that was on a tour just in Appleton on those days.
We came to the Northern Wisconsin mainly to visit mom and grandma of Pekka’s daughter in law, but I was also interested to see the area where Finnish immigrants moved to work in the logging and mining early 1900. In this area you can still see the Finnish influence in the names and culture. As we went shopping the young cashier was delighted to hear we came from Finland and told her grandfather came from Finland. Here are Finnish museum, Sisu skiing and several Finnish names of the roads.
When we arrived here it was cold and still snow on the heaps, but today and the coming days temperature around 20 C degrees have been forecasted.
After Lake Michigan I really waited for to see the lake Superior. It has been an important route for fur trade and later for ore ships. Several ship wrecks also have occurred there when storms came and wind bowed from the arctic areas of Canada. We were there now off season time, but on the shores of the Lake there were nice little towns and villages with beautiful restaurants. Had a white fish lunch in one of those which was open.
