Yes, Schlitz was the beer that made Milwaukee famous, but Miller is king today. So is Harley-Davidson, and boy they made a camping reservation difficult. We would show up on their 110th anniversary! The city was covered up by loud motorcycles. They were en masse downtown, but we rode our bikes in the midst of them. They seem to accept bicyclists. I guess it is about two wheels.
Below Irene attempts to pass some Harley dudes in the right lane downtown.
Bike lane in downtown Milwaukee on the way from the north end of town to central city..
Enough trains and submarines already. First on our agenda in town was visiting Mitchell Park Conservatory (“The Domes”), a botanical conservatory with different geodesic domes for each biome: Floral Show Dome, Tropical, and Arid Domes.
From the conservatory we walked to a bicycle trail with a new bridge and looked down upon a large Canadian Pacific rail yard. How many readers knew that the Canadian Pacific Rail Road owned so much track in the U.S.?
One day we went to a downtown park in Milwaukee and rode North along Lake Michigan. We then circled back towards downtown and rode through one of Milwaukee’s grand old neighborhoods. Here we found out Milwaukee has a water tower similar to Chicago’s.
We took a boat trip on the Milwaukee River that give us a good look at downtown. Then we went out into Lake Michigan for a view back to the city.
Milwaukee Ale House:
Here we biked downtown to an art show and the famous Milwaukee Public Market. Then we headed for the downtown waterfront and biked past the soaring Milwaukee Museum of Art where we found the parking lot packed with Harley’s looking for a place to park at the waterfront.
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