Freedom Trip - Day 4

Bremen, IN to Mishicot, WI
From Bremen to South Bend and the Notre Dame campus is just 30 minutes.  We'd planned to visit the campus to take a walk but were thwarted by a home game.  Georgia was visiting for a 7:30pm kick-off but by 11am all available parking was gone.  They were already partying hard in every front yard and empty lot.  We jumped out for a quick photo of the famed dome and then kept moving.

Today's drive, at 300 miles, was one of the longer ones, but we took it in pieces.

Before leaving South Bend, we got a couple of coffees.  This place doesn't look like much until you get inside.

There was an emerging theme reflected in this coffee shop.  The rust belt is slowly showing signs of life.  A lot of the old abandoned manufacturing buildings are being repurposed.

In this case, a stage for live music...

A library cum bar.....

And a coffee roaster and cafe. 

Part of it was also an art gallery.  We sipped out coffee and walked throughout.  It was early morning and empty.

Before hitting the road we stopped off at an old-fashioned drive in burger joint.  They had the speakers and swinging trays that could be positioned outside your window.  

We then headed for Milwaukee for lunch, swinging around the outskirts of Chicago. Of all the rust belt cities we'd seen, this one looked to be the most thriving.  The oldest ward in downtown was full of restaurants, bars, cafes and museums.  It was spiffy looking.

There was a lot of public art on the streets, like this large intricate sculpture.

We parked outside the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, which we'd mistaken for a museum.  It is a four year art college.

We took a walk around.  There is a nice mix of the old and new.  

It was sunny and around 70 degrees and there were lots of folks sitting outside.

We had lunch at a cafe across the street from the Institute of Art and Design.  As one would expect, the interior was rather designy and everyone working there was covered from ankle to neck in tattoos.  Many students were on their laptops.

We then took a short walk to the public market to buy some vegetables.  It was a lot more high class than expected.  There was a clam bar and wine tasting.  It was very different from the public market in Cleveland.

We arrived at our AirBnB, in a small town called Mishicot, late in the day.  It was a house in the middle of the soy fields about 30 minutes south of Green Bay.

We had the basement to ourselves which had been re-done into a roomy one bedroom with kitchen, bar, bedroom, bathroom and small office.  It was very comfortable.  We sat and watched the Weather Channel for updates on Irma.