Day 16:
Since we got in so late from the ferry crossing the night before, we slept in until 8:30 am, getting up in time to slide into the hotel breakfast before they cleared things away. We had a shorter ride scheduled to the Appleton area, and didn't need to leave right away, so we threw in a load of laundry. When we left Manitowoc, it was in the low 50s with intermittent drizzle/rain for the ride to High Cliff State Park on Lake Winnebago just outside Appleton. We decided to camp, because the rain had stopped by the time we arrived. The camp host we met told us there was a no-cost and available tent campsite for bikers like us. The state park was sprawling, with amenities that surpassed our prior disappointing private campground experiences. Linda and Henry's medical school classmate Charlie (Charlene) and husband Mike Uhing drove up from Milwaukee to greet us with a fabulous picnic spread about 4 pm. Most of it was devoured, as there were no places to get lunch on our route into the park. A state park warden approached us while we were in the midst of our mini-feast. We thought we were going to get busted for talking too loudly, or some other misdemeanor. He only wanted to let us know that the camp host had mis-informed us, and that there would be a charge for the campsite after all. No biggie; we were happy to pay for the campsite. We topped off the evening with a dinner at an Asian fusion restaurant. Charlie and Mike dropped us back at the campsite, and we agreed to meet them the next morning at a diner in Menasha for breakfast, about an hour's bike ride out of the park towards Plover, our next destination.
Maps of today's rides:
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/3750986694
https://www.relive.cc/view/u3607814365
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| Manitowoc, WI |
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| Manitowoc, WI |
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| Brillion WI |
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| Maple Grove, WI |
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| Whitelaw, WI |
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| High Cliff State Park |
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| Mike and Charlie Uhring brought dinner to our camp site. |
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