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Very early morning in order to make it to the boat docks by 8. Boarded the S.S. Badger and left Ludington at 9:00 AM sharp. The boat itself was massive, capable of holding hundreds of cars, along with two restaurants, a bar, a movie theater, a game room, TV rooms, staterooms, etc. Once we got well out into the lake it suddenly got very foggy. Visibility seemed to be about 100 yards, so about once a minute the fog horn would go off. (Once while I was standing far too near to it. I almost had to change my underwear.) 4 hours after launching, we arrived in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. From there we drove up the coast a bit to Two Rivers, where we visited the Rogers Street Fishing Museum, the Hamilton Wooden Type Museum, and the ice cream shop that invented the Sundae. The fishing museum contained the original lighthouse from Two Rivers, an old fishing boat, and various relics from nearby shipwrecks on Lake Michigan. The Wooden Type museum contained exhibits pertaining to the days when printing presses used wooden type. All the various machines used to create the type were represented, along with a massive collection of wooden type in different fonts and sizes. At the ice cream shop, I had a sundae with butter-pecan ice cream and hot caramel with rhubarb sauce on top. Fantastic. Finally, in my quest to eat my way across the country, I had an italian sub from some place on Marquette’s campus in Milwaukee, and a cheeseburger from Nicky’s on the south-side of Chicago. Both were quite tasty and sustained me on the long trek home, where we finally arrived at about 1:00 AM.
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