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We risked travel while Wisconsin is the Corona virus hotspot of the country.<\/p>\n

We left Madison Monday afternoon. This is Tuesday morning in Door County. Supposed to be vacation, but I had a meeting and 2 online classes on Tuesday and another meeting on Wednesday.
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I’m happy to report that people are being very good about masking up in Door County. I didn’t see any business that didn’t<\/em> have a masks required sign, and a bunch of restaurants had pretty slick order and grab and go set-ups. The main downside was a trashcan full of carry out clamshells at the airbnb – 2 foam, one something that looked compostable. And a pizza box.<\/p>\n

We were going to take bikes but it was rainy when we left and looked like it’d continue so we left them in the garage.<\/p>\n

The pizza box was from our first night – there’s a good wood fired pizza place right by the entrance to Peninsula State Park. It has a cute logo. \"wild<\/a>We just didn’t stop on the drive there (or the drive back – more on that in a minute). So, we arrived, after 3\u00bd hours in the car, checked into the airbnb, and then took a walk in the Park with our umbrellas, and stopped to order the pizza by phone. While I was calling, the clouds lifted enough so that we could see the sunset, which was nice until the people with the noisy white pick-up spewing diesel fumes arrived to take their picture of the sunset, with the truck idling.<\/p>\n

The other food that came in all those clamshells was barbecue on Tuesday<\/a>, Cookery breakfast<\/a> on Wednesday (that was the compostable clamshell, and we decided tied for the best meal with the pizza. We split an egg sandwich and a cinnamon roll that came with a nice handful of salad on the side, add your own vinaigrette), and Mexican on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Tuesday in between my meetings we walked in Peninsula again – no umbrellas required. We watched the Great British Baking Show instead of the debate, but heard plenty about it later. I think my favorite part is all the reactions by women, like they should have the next debate moderated by a panel of moms and kindergarten teachers.\u00a0 I think they should just cancel the rest of the debates, and now with Trump’s Covid diagnosis, that just might happen.<\/p>\n

Wednesday was our longest walk when we went up to Newport Beach. We thought about renting bikes but turned out to be wise when we didn’t – it rained off and on. I forgot my rain coat with the hood, and bought a hat.<\/p>\n\n\t\t