Yooperland, Lakenenland & the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum

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Yooperland, Lakenenland & the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum

We finally made our way into the Shipwreck Museum. The story of the Edmund Fitzgerald was front and center as we entered the museum. The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975. The entire crew of 29 men were lost.

The original bell is now displayed at the entrance of the museum. Gordon Lightfoot’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was playing in the background and the song haunted us for the rest of the day.

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Old Legends, Old Friends, New Plans

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Old Legends, Old Friends, New Plans

We could have stayed a week enjoying the relaxed atmosphere and great company, but the road beckoned us to move on. We were heading for Duluth, a city we’d never visited before, with the thought of spending the day and night and then continuing along US-2 into Michigan. But plans do have a habit of changing.

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Windmills, Waylon, and a Tribute to Mules

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Windmills, Waylon, and a Tribute to Mules

When I think of windmills, I immediately think of Holland, but then we learned about The American Windmill Museum. It’s one of those places you read about in a tourist brochure and then wonder if it’s worth visiting. It sounded interesting, so since we were in Lubbock, we decided to give it a visit. It was wonderful.

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