Ashland WI

This morning Hot Rider, my dad and I are riding to Ashland Wisconsin for a 3 day tour of that area. All in all we are looking about 1000 miles. Should be really weather.

If not for the courage of the fearless crew....

What a co incidence...friend on mine out here just came back from visiting his kids. He cut up over to the upper peninsula and then over to Ashland. Small world. Enjoy!

That is weird, but cool. We were supposed to be with HOG for this rife but they chickened out. As of right now, we are in Spooner WI.

My friend said the the Upper P was mezmorizing.

I have been close to the UP, about 5 miles away. Great riding in that general area.

Got into Ashland at about 4:30. Pictures to follow our trip. Currently at our hotel drinking.

Best part of a road day is getting to the hotel and chillaxing. Jam on brother jammer!

Ok our trip has concluded. Our basic rout was that we headed east on MN Hwy 7 to I494 to I 90 to WI 35 heading north on that. Nothing too fabulous here other than crossing the Mississippi and the St Croix river. Overall going up there was Mediocre. Nothing special other than being with my dad and wife. We got into Ashland and I had one little issue with my GPS, but we got to where we needed to be which was our hotel.

Here is our hotel. Really nice.

Rain was expected but it held off until we were checking in. While it was raining we got settled into our rooms. Hete is a look at the rooms. These rooms were really clean and very nice. Kind of reminded us of log cottage in the city. And for $100 a night, way way worth it.

Once we got settled into our rooms, we sat outside for a bit had a drink. At this time I decided I was going to reset my highway pegs because my dad brought a tool kit.

Good times!!

From here we decided we were hungry and went to a place within walking distance. The place also was a microbrewery called South Shore Brewing CO. This place also hosted two restaurants completely different from each other.

Here is a view as we were walking up. Next here is a shot of the restaurants from the window. A picture of the brewing vats. Just a neat picture of a ships sterring wheel.

What was there fare? Burgers? Seafood? Steak? was the beer cold or slightly colder then room tempeture? Any Dublin Brown or dark beer?

We chose to eat at the Deep Water which was an upper scale place. Very nice, GREAT FOOD, but the beer samplers were phenomenal. I found one that I really enjoyed and ordered one with my meal.

After our meal we decided to bring a growler home of an agreed up flavor. Here is a pic of us enjoying that flavor outside of the room.

The beer wasn't super cold but not warm. The menu had a lot fish and seafood, some Italian and yes steak and a couple of bugers. Price? Not sure, dad picked up this check. And the beer were mainly darks with a couple of stouts.

When in Arizona we go to one of my sons favorite places give beer, World of Beer. They have several hundred beers ! How can a guy decide????

We were up until midnight drinking and laughing. We spoke about many things, some serious, and some not.

The next morning we were actually out on the road at 0930 hours and we were heading north. We rode U.S. 13 north all the way to the Apostle islands and followed it all the way to Superior WI. That stretch was just over 100 miles.