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FALL 2016 ISSUE 02 / VOL. 01
Main: Empty two-lane roads like this section of Route 57 are the reward for visiting Door County in the off-season. Right: During the summer, you might see goats grazing on the grass roof of Al Johnson ' s Swedish Restaurant in Sister Bay. highway surface, but now roadwork led us on and off shoulders, with traffic always following too closely. From Green Bay to Fond du Lac, a crush of vehicles pushed us along an endless business / industrial corridor.
At Fond du Lac, we returned to U. S. 151 just in time for heavy rush hour traffic, which carried us to Madison. This time we found the bypass, but there were many stoplights. As the temperature topped 86 degrees, we crawled past the city, with added heat radiating from the road and the ST’ s engine. Beyond Madison, traffic thinned out and we reentered Wisconsin’ s pastoral beauty, able to relax again.
After a night at a clean, nondescript motel in Dodgeville, we arose to a humid morning with threatening skies. We donned our rain gear