2018 Summer RV Trip – Day 35, 36 & 37 – Friday Shopping, Eastern Peninsula, Trolley Wine Tour

Friday was supposed to be a day of bad weather with rain beginning around 1pm so the girls decided to get out earlier than normal, visit the Egg Harbor farmers market, then head up to shop in Fish Creek until the weather got bad.  I had a couple of repairs to make so I hung around the coach with the dogs and fixed supper.  Turned out the FM had only four stands (but one with good maters) and the rain went around the very dry peninsula and the girls spent several hours in Fish Creek.

Saturday began with this special Bev BLT & egg (it was awesome and here is a shot of the privately owned park model two sites from us. 

Then, we wanted to avoid the big time tourist spots and not fight the normal weekend crowds, so we made a driving/photo tour beginning in Egg Harbor where the downtown area and marina can be seen in this shot from the web.

The downtown area might be a block long and then there are businesses and houses intermingled both north and south of town for a little ways - population 201.

This is the marina with plenty of activity this final Saturday before the Labor Day weekend and official end of summer.

From there, we drove over to Bailey’s Harbor for a stop at Bailey’s Harbor Fish Co. to pick up some frozen walleye to take home and smoked salmon and trout to snack on.  We didn’t realize it from the samples we tried but when we tried the smoked fish back at the RV, it was almost too salty to eat so we’ll need to make it into something rather than eat it plain – I’m thinking smoked fish scramble.

From Bailey’s Harbor, we drove up the east side of the peninsula where not much is going on except we did see three Door County Trolley’s delivering guests and the wedding party to an outdoor wedding with very little parking – pretty clever I thought – and we got several views of the lake.

After Thursday’s scenic trolley tour, we decided it would be fun to do the wine tasting tour, not that we like wineries or anything, which we did on Sunday.  We loaded up at the trolley station for a 10am departure and our drive, Henk (Dutch), told his first corny joke before ever getting behind the wheel.  I believe there must be a school somewhere where tour guides go to learn their bad jokes but he soon had everyone grinning and off we went.

The tour included three wineries, one cider tasting, and lunch at the half-way point at Galileo’s Italian Food, which was okay but nothing special – I would have expected better pasta with bolognese ($13 per their menu) from an Italian restaurant and I’m not likely to return.

The first winery was the Peninsula Winery & Door County Distillery which we had already visited so we didn’t buy anything but I got some new pics.  This owner knows he is in the money-making business and in addition to the libations they provide gourmet olive oils, fudge, and other tourist goodies.

Next was the Simon Creek Winery which is located off the beaten path in a bucolic country setting.  I didn’t find any of their wines purchase worthy but the girls bought some of the port, sherry and chocolate dessert wines.

After lunch we visited the Harbor Ridge Winery which I’d been looking forward too after our neighbor said she liked the Riesling but I didn’t care for it and I believe we walked out of the winery empty handed and went next door to the cheese shop.  They don’t make cheese there but sell award winning artisan cheeses from across Wisconsin, but since most were in the $20/lb range and my taster is not that discerning we left there with nothing as well.

The last stop was at the White House Red Door for a tasting of cider but what they carried was from the Island Orchard Cider that we had previously visited and didn’t much care for, I escaped again with the credit card unscathed.

I think we all enjoyed our five hour day and Henk did an excellent job of discussing our stops and some of the local area – At $65/ea I’d recommend the tour.

Photos can be enlarged by clicking on them and the blue words are links.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by Almost Heaven South.

Larry

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