Day 51 - Green Bay to Milwaukee, WI

Days on the road: 51.
Miles today: 136.
Miles to date: 11,659.


I started off the day by taking in all that is Green Bay and visiting the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field. This is the football holy land. Steeped in history and lore, and the only team in professional sports that is publicly owned, the Green Bay Packers franchise and its green and gold colours represent all that is good and right in the state of Wisconsin. The waiting list is 83,000 people long and the turn over only about 600 seats per year.



The tour guides and fellow tour attendees were mid-Western nice, which is to say over-the-top nice. And all were die-hard Packer fans, to the point that they could have led the tour themselves. Also, I now know what it feels like to feel, um, petite.


After the intense baptism-by-football-and-cheese-curds, I made the quick 2-hour jump to Milwaukee to see what it was that Laverne and Shirley were onto. Turns out, not much. No photos of Milwaukee. I had hoped to take in a Brewers game, but they were unfortunately out of town during my brief stay.