I had meant to explore southern Door County Sunday after church, but the wind was so cold I put it off for today. I was mostly on a mission to find some of the Belgian roadside chapels, but we made some other stops too. Continue reading
Those of you who have been following my blog for a while may remember how upset I was about a year ago when a reporter from Harpers classified Workampers as senior citizens who have to work to survive and get taken advantage of by their employers. Another reporter compared Workampers to the Joad family from Grapes of Wrath or to Woody Guthrie. A rash of reporters began contacting Workamper News asking for people to interview so I offered to be one of those people. Several months ago I was contacted by John Glionna of the LA Times who, at the time, was looking for a modern migrant worker-type story and I told him if he wanted to interview me he had to tell the story like it is. He agreed to interview Mark and I and two other Workampers and do our stories justice, so this weekend he and a photographer from the LA Times, Francine Orr, are here following us around and asking us all sorts of questions about our lifestyle. I believe he’ll write a good story. I’ve asked him to do a guest blog: telling a little about himself, explaining his story idea and what he’s hoping to get out of this. I’ll let you know when his story is published so that you can find a copy of the LA Times and read it if you so desire. And now, without further ado, here’s John… Continue reading
Today I had a couple places I wanted to see, but we actually got more in than I had expected. I had seen in the local paper that there’s a Mahjongg group at the YMCA in Fish Creek. I have played the game on the computer so I wanted to see it in real life. Continue reading
The first question that entered our minds when we came to Egg Harbor was, “How did it get that name?” Today we took a trolley tour and found out. Continue reading
We’ve decided that we’re going to spend at least one day of our weekends touring the towns of Door County. Our weekends are going to be Tuesdays and Wednesdays so this is the first installment of Touring Door County. Continue reading
Mark had an appointment in Green Bay yesterday so we made the nearly two hour trip there for the day. He had started fasting after 7:00 the previous night and his appointment wasn’t set till 12:30 so we were hoping he could have the lab work done early, but no such luck at this VA. By the time he finally got to eat it was about 2:30! At least we got some errands done before his appointment since we were in “the big city” so early. Continue reading
Mark’s first order of business this morning was to unload his Harley from the back of the truck. I don’t believe I’ve ever talked about what goes into this process. Here’s the story in pictures: Continue reading
This afternoon we left Green Bay, WI and headed northeast up the peninsula that divides Green Bay (the actual bay) and Lake Michigan. Part way up the peninsula we entered Door County, a place we’ve been told is very popular, very beautiful, and has lots of things to see and do. Continue reading
So many of you have written with names for the birds I posted on my blog yesterday. Here is what some of you had to say: Continue reading
We leave on Wednesday for Ellison Bay, but in the meantime we’ve been working on getting some things done. This weekend we ceased working for a bit and had some fun. Continue reading