At More Wildlife

Jo and I enjoy an evening walk several times during the week.  It is a great time for us to discuss each other's days along with solving the problems of the world as we get in a little bit of exercise.  As we now live downtown Milwaukee our walks are even more urban than in the past.  We are walking past high rises, apartment buildings, and the lake front.  As we were out this last week we noticed a fairly sleek and interesting colored "dog" running along the opposite sidewalk by itself.  This is unusual since most people keep their dogs leashed in the city - keeps them from biting random strangers I suppose.  Then as the "dog" got closer we realized it actually was a coyote.  Understand we were in downtown Milwaukee, although along the Milwaukee river front, it is a fairly densely packed urban area.  Certainly not what we expected to see there - maybe on my trip to New Mexico.  It was pretty healthy looking so food must be good and didn't seem particularly worried about us - or really even that interested in us.  Oh the fun things you can see and do in Milwaukee.  Come for the beer and cheese, stay for the wildlife sightings.

This last weekend after enjoying, and I use the term enjoying loosely, a 40 mile bike ride to Cedarburg and back we hit the Milwaukee Lobster Fest.  We were hoping to score some New England style lobster rolls - which for the uninitiated consist of nothing more than the correct bun (looks like a hot dog bun but a bit thicker), hot lobster, and hot butter poured over everything.  Unfortunately, while the menu online touted New England style rolls they weren't to be.  They did have something close that we allowed to fill in - hot buttered and toasted bun with a smear of mayo and cold lobster.  Still tasty but not what we were hoping for.  Still it hit the spot after the long ride.   

The long ride is in preparation for our attempt to ride our bikes from Milwaukee to Madison via the Glacial Drumlin trail.  More on that later - assuming I survive!