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Menstown, April 5th, Sauk Rapids

(call me for details and secret passphrase)

For those who don’t know much about Door county there are a few basics….it’s located in the peninsula near Green Bay.  There are a ton of great sites which have travel info and reviews, but the this one is the best.   We looked about over 40 places to stay, some really nice, some crappy, and the place we picked: Black Smith Inn.  This bed and breakfast is a bit spendier than some places, but definitely worth it.  Our room had a balcony view of the harbor, whirlpool, and was overall had a cozy feel to it.

Bailey’s Harbor is pretty quiet and a nice place to come back to every night, but not much to do there.  Just a few shops to walk to.  There was one nice place to eat, the Restaurant Saveur (no site right now).  Three course menu with great sweet potato ravioli.

Most of the tourist action in Door county is in Fish Creek.   Tons of shops to visit, great restaurants.

Peninsula State Park was gorgeous this time of the year.  All the leaves were turning.  See the pictures link below.  Most of the nice outdoors pictures were taken there.

Egg Harbor also has great shops and restaurants as well as the only beer brewery in the county.  Shipwrecked is a bed/breakfast, restaurant & brewery.  The beer was kind of flat, so i was pretty disappointed.  Their food made up for it however.  The Bistro at the Liberty Square also had great food.  I had a fantastic walnut burger.  We also stopped at the Village Cafe for some excellent breakfast.  Being a huge french toast wonk, I had to try out their version.  WOW.

Here are the pictures.

[tags]Door County,WI,Baileys Harbor,Black Smith Inn, Bed and Breakfasts, Restaurant Saveur, Fish Creek, Peninsula State Park, The Village Cafe, Shipwrecked Brewery, The Bistro[/tags]

Favre passed Marino as all time touchdown pass thrower.  Pretty damn cool.

Rob, a vikings fan, had to wear a packer’s jersey and cheesehead hat because he had a big mouth before the game.  Friggin’ cool.

I’m not a huge TV guy at all. But I’m a big fan of Sunday morning TV and news reading via internet. I usually drink half a pot of coffee while doing this. Back in my single days it was a bigger event where I had the luxury of investing even more time.

Meet the press with Tim Russert – MUST SEE. This show is a great way to start of the week. Tim usually has extremely knowledgeable guests and interesting questions to ask him. This morning Hillary Clinton has bombarded with questions regarding her flip-flopping on the Iraq war. Tim pwned her with a few video clips and quotes showing her change in stance. Not 5 minutes after Hillary was off the show, Alan Greenspan was talking about his new book “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”. A co-worker of mine is having issues getting through this book because it was “boring”. I guess thinking about Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, it does seem like that book would be a snooze-fest, but after his interview I might pick up a copy. Russert pointed to a recent quote of Greenspan: “I think Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we’ve had in a while.” Greenspan responded by saying many of his stances on free trade, globalization, welfare reform and fiscal restraint coincided with Republican values versus Democratic. On a side note, Greenspan is married to Adrian Mitchell, a NBC reporter. They joked about the first date in which Greenspan brought Mitchell back to his apartment to read an essay he wrote about monopolies. Not a move i’ve ever heard about….

C-SPAN – Washington Journal. this show is too cool to miss out on. Always interesting debates, add live callers with stupid or smart comments, you have an entertaining show. Pretty much anything C-SPAN rocks though, not just WJ. Steve, you’ll understand some day.

Evangelical Religious Shows. How does this carry the quality theme? Entertainment, not content. I can’t help NOT to watch these shows. Today I was lucky enough to catch a local ministry hosted by Mac Hammond. This was spectacular. Mac and his wife Lynne seem to be 2 down to earth faithful folks trying to guide people in the right direction. While watching the show I googled “Mac Hammond” to find many, many accusations of IRS related issues. According to City Page the Living Word Christian Center’s annual report states the church collected $24,047,130 in contributions in 2005. I can’t seem to find the report anywhere on the internets. But, WOW, I’m in the wrong industry. This horse’s ass babbles on for an hour on Sundays and brings in $450,000. Dang G.

So morale of the story…check out TV on Sunday mornings next week with a tall cup of coffee and a computer. You’re missing out on some good stuff.

[tags] Tim Russert, Meet The Press, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Alan Greenspan, Mac Hammond, Living Word Christian Center[/tags]

I’ve only seen a handful of Airstreams up until today when I saw 40-50 within a 1 mile radius.  This Airstream-only park off highway 10 has tons of cool amenities: swimming pool, golf course, horseshoes, tennis court, activity center, clubhouse, and WiFi!!!!!!!!!!!  Their site is kinda old school, but shows how sweet the facility is.  It’s a peaceful, quiet campground site with beautiful oaks surrounding every site.

I snapped a bunch of pics from my new Sanyo Katana II phone only to find out the bluetooth doesn’t send pictures….just business cards and contacts.  Oh well, back to the drawing board for a new phone…that’s a whole other post.

Check out the pics!

[tags]Air Stream, Clearwater, Earl Wolleat, Minnesota Airstream Park [/tags]