Morning Commute

Main Street Marinette

Here's a synopsis of my morning commute from the apartment to the shipyard.  Most mornings, I walk in.  It only takes about 20 minutes, including stops for coffee and a paper.  I draw the line at walking when the outside temperature gets much below 20 degrees.  It's just too cold.

Turn onto Main Street at Book World

This is a great little bookstore, and right across the street from my building.  I especially appreciate the fact that they carry flyfishing magazines!  A great place to kill a couple of hours.

Dew Hills Coffee Shop, and the nice lady that gets my coffee.

First stop: Dew Hills Coffee Shop.  The people are very friendly, and the nice lady always warms up my travel mug before I get my coffee.  $1.63 for a 20 oz. refill.  Awesome.

Knights of Columbus, and across the street the laudromat where I get a paper

Then, down the street past the Knights of Columbus (Bingo every Sunday night, 6:30!), and stop at the laundromat to get a paper.

Shipyard in sight.  The square-ish building in the center is the Tech Center.  Our project office is out of the picture to the right.

I continue down Main Street to Ely, the street leading to the Shipyard.  Turn left at the Presbyterian Church, and down the hill to the yard.  Tech Center to the right, Water Treatment Plant to the left.

Main Gate of Marinette Marine Shipyard.  

The main erection building where the ships are assembled is straight ahead.

At this point, I turn right, and head across the parking lots to our office modular.  At this point in the project, we really have no need to go into the construction yard, since we are in the design verification phase.  The ship only exists on paper right now, be we are getting closer to cutting steel every day.  If all goes well, we'll start construction in October.