Waddington, N.Y.

   Here we are in the Carp Capital of the World, after spending several days in the wifi/cell phone black hole of Eastern Canada  --  now it's catch-up time. 
   I would have made an entry Fri evening, but I spent nearly an hour trying to download pics from my camera so I could post a few but they kept disappearing into the laptop, never to be seen again (I succeeded in downloading about 10 out of 110 pics) --  I was so frustrated that the potential for laptop breakage was too high to keep using it.  Anyway:
   Saturday we went to Milwaukie to see the art museum (MAM) -- Milwaukie Art Museum (dw:  "I've got two mams)  The museum was really nice -- worth going out of your way to see.  Some history of Art stuff, and a lot of modern works and outsider art things.  I really enjoyed it.  But the flat-out spectular part is the building itself.  Part of it was designed by that friend of crossword fans:  Eero Saarinen.  The show-stopper is the Quadracci Pavillion by Calatrava, Kahler and Kiley.  It's a jaw-dropper.  I'd reccommend Googleing it to look at the pics -- I'm not going to try to describe it. 
   After the museum we went to the Third Ward --- Milwaukie old town.  Sort of like a much larger Pearl District.  Looked at some of the art galleries -- again some impressive things.  A curious item:  A beer bar bicycle cart.  It was a wagon powered by 12 or 14 "stationary bicycles" geared to the wheels -- someone (presumably sober) to steer it and a center bar with a couple of taps.  12 or 14 people get to pedal around the city and drink beer.  ---  an amusing idea.  The whole area was nearly people free -- on a nice Sat afternoon.  A remarkable lack of people for the time the day and the size of the city. 
    Sunday we moved on.  Took county road "P" to Sheboygan.  ("Take Wi67 east, turn left and then it's "P" all the way to Sheboygan") -- A slight variation of dw's childhood joke.  Dw hadn't seen the Kohler museum to we stopped there.  I liked it even more the second time around. 
   After we drove further north -- stopping and camping at J. W. Wells State Park near Cedar River MI.
   Last night we camped at Chutes Provincial Park, near Massey Ont.  Starting about 2 a.m. we had thunder lightening and rain -- a couple of heavy showers.  Our $30 tent only leaked a little bit. 
   A few observations from the road:  Dennis S. on the mysterious running cows -- "You need to get out of the city more."  --- At the Cedar River MI. Plaza --  (a service station/quicky-mart/restaurant -- with a Fri nite fish-fry) -- there was a 5 ft shelf of books.  It was the Menominee County Library branch.  On county road "P" -- Lomira -- is a small church with a steeple that has a small roof like a flaired skirt about a quarter way up. ---"Seldom Seem Rd." west of Massey, Ont. --- Along hwy 17 west of Sudbury Ont. the many highway cuts -- low cliffs of 10 to 20 feet -- most of the cliffs are topped with small cairns of one to two feet high.  DA