Chicago!

I got into Chicago Wednesday evening, and have been anchored here since.

The trip down was lovely.  As planned I spent two nights in Escanaba, and had a long walk around town on my lay day.

Saturday had NW winds, and I went down the coast to Menomonee where I stopped for late lunch, then further south to anchor here.  I thought I could get into the river, but it was too shallow.

The next day I cruised across to Sturgeon Bay, and went ashore for a couple of hours to visit the museum and grab lunch.  From there I went out the canal and south to Algoma, where i stayed on the wall and had a nice dinner out.

Monday I cruised down to Sheboygan and stayed on a wall in the river.  Another solo looper was staying at the yacht club for a few weeks, and I almost booked a slip there.

The weather had been nice – following breezes and mostly sunny – and we had two more days before a nasty system came through with strong east winds. I was tempted to keep going. The deciding factor came Tuesday morning when a non-urgent specialist appointment in Toronto for Nov 6 was bumped back a couple of months. I had planned to travel from Chicago for that. Without that constraint I’m now free to head downriver earlier.

So I left Sheboygan Tuesday, spent the night anchored inside the breakwater south of South Shore Yacht Club in Milwaukee, and came down here Wednesday. Lovely travel on the lake.