Green Bay, Wisconsin

 

6-9-2021 – Wednesday

We survived the night with no tv or internet.  Played Rummikup, read books.   This is our woodsy campsite.

Joe cleaning the windshield is a regular occurrence, usually happens more than once a day.  Today, after he did what he could, we hit the first car wash we saw and finished the job.  Temporarily.

Got an early start this morning (8:40) for our drive to Green Bay.  First on our agenda was Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers.  Of all the NFL stadiums, this is the one we wanted to see the most.  We found it pretty easily, went into the Pro Shop, bought tickets for the Field Tour (15 minutes, but we got to go in the bleachers  down to the field (another tour took you onto the field and into the tunnel, but we didn’t do that one).  It was all quite impressive.

Outside the building are these statues of Earl Lambeau and Vince Lombardi.

And in the Atrium is this giant statue of the Lombardi trophy.  Quite impressive!

See Joe standing at the bottom.

The field itself looked small, without the grid lines.  The grass is 95% real grass, and just 5% artificial.  They water it every day, and mow it every other day.   

And here is one of the goal posts.

Across the parking lot is the Don Hutson Center, their indoor practice field.  There are outside practice fields on each side of this building.

We asked about tickets.  There are no individual tickets for sale, all are season tickets.  However, there are usually some season ticket holders who can’t make the game, so there are tickets that can be bought from them.  Individual ticket prices start at $125, but I don’t know what they go for from the season ticket holders, I would guess they are much higher.  The waiting list for season tickets is 135,000, so get your name on the list now if you ever want a ticket.

Saw this “statue” driving through town.

 

From there, we headed to Sturgeon Bay, with Green Bay on one side, and Lake Michigan on the other.  From the highway, we worked our way over to the water, and found a place with a view of the bay of Green Bay.  Most of the shoreline is hidden by homes, some very nice, and others lake cottages.  We didn't drive to the end of this peninsula, or even to the town of Sturgeon Bay.

I picked up a few rocks, but nothing special.

Then we cut over to the Lake Michigan side and drove to the little beach town of Algoma.  This was a really pretty town, well kept, lots of flowers blooming in yards, beautiful beach, nice marina. 

We drove through town, and turned around at a field full of seagulls.

Joe really thought the scenery on this beach was great.

(At first I didn’t think she had anything at all on, but Joe had her zoomed in on the camera and could tell there was a little piece of clothing around her waist).

We did walk the beach a little.  It had been quite warm in Green Bay (town), mid-80s, but by the water, it was a chilly 73.  We looked for rocks, but they just aren’t the right kind here.  We found a little restaurant with a beach view, right across the street from the beach, and enjoyed a nice meal there.

Joe wanted to see the town of Green Bay, so we drove right through the center on our way back.  It’s an old town, but well kept.  We left Green Bay about 4:50 and got home at 6:30, not too bad.  285 miles today.

The highway to Green Bay was mostly woods.  But we came back into the town from the south, off the peninsula, and even on the peninsula, we saw lots of farm ground and crops:  corn, rye, alfalfa or clover, and a sod farm.  And some dairy farms. And lots of silos and barns.

We did see a little wildlife today:  4 sandhill cranes, 7 turkeys, and some Belgium belted cows.  I wanted Joe to turn around so I could get a picture of the belted cows, but he said, “I have all my u-turns and back-ups in for the day.”  Humph!  A little later, he passed a road named “Rustic Road,” which he mentioned.  I waited a mile or so, and snottily replied, “Too bad you have all your u-turns and back-ups in for the day.”  But I sure wish I had gotten a picture of those cows.

Back at the RV, we had a bite to eat, played Rummikup again (Stacey, after getting beat several nights in a row, I beat him tonight 75-0).  Read our books.  Adjusting to life without TV and internet, but now we have to go to town tomorrow to find a wifi signal so I can post 2 nights of the blog, do laundry, and try to find our next campground, in Michigan.