I wanted to go to church today so I found my hotel on Google maps and picked the church geographically closest to me. This is the interior, but of course the photo doesn't do it justice. The sanctuary is round, reminding me of the church my late grandparents attended. The ceiling beams and the ceiling over the organ are painted with an intricate pattern. The first song we sang was new to me and had a definite authentic celtic lilt.
When I lived in England, I learned the saying - Start as you mean to go on . I thought about this as the hotel manager explained to me that he was calling because I had left my journal in the hotel room but he would be able to have it shipped back to me if I could provide a pre-paid shipping label. This was the second distressing phone call before lunch. The first distressing phone call was to say that due to high winds expected across Lake Michigan, our ferry to Milwaukee was cancelled. I really like ferries and I had been looking forward to the ferry across Lake Michigan for weeks. We stopped at Panera for lunch and to discuss the situation. My lunch was a disappointing sandwich. And then there was a lot of highway south of Lake Michigan and around Chicago. And Spotify kept slipping weird mellow folk music into my upbeat driving playlist. And then about 20 miles before Oconomowoc, the sky did this, and I think we will consider this the new start of the trip.
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