We decided to break our long drive with a stop off at Madison as the guide book had described it as one of the friendliest cities in America plus it was supposed to be a great place to get “artesan cheese”, yum!
When we arrived we had just missed the farmers market but we hadn’t missed the protestors blowing vuvuzellas in the street protesting over their senator and trying to oust him from office.
We had a lovely wander through the streets passing second-hand clothes shops and hippie new age shops. A lady recommended we walked down to the uni campus which was quite close. The uni buildings were awesome and definitely reminded me of the sort of unis you see in American films.
After a scrummy hot dog and walk along the lake front we headed back into the town. I would have loved to have gone to a uni like this one (The University of Wisconsin) you could have learnt to sail on the lake and gone swimming in the summer and then eaten copious amounts of food in their huge cafeteria.
It must have been wedding season in Madison as we saw five wedding parties whilst we were there. Grey must be the colour du jour for bridesmaids as two of the parties had them in it. Orange was also another bridesmaid colour we saw, I’m definitely glad I didn’t choose that colour as they looked like massive tangerines!
Our plan after leaving Madison was to drive as far as we could before we had to give up and then find a motel for the night. We got as far as a town called Rochester.
Hey Guys. That corn place looks amazing. Why don’t we have more places like that in England. The out door cinema looks just like in all the films too. How do you get the sound, is it big speakers or do you get some personal ones for your car or maybe broadcast the signal to your radio! Where some photos of some of the long never ending roads you must be taking 🙂 Hope your both having fun, although you are missing out on all the glorious rain and hail we are having 🙂
Sounds as though you are having a wonderful time and you have some amazing places still to come judging by the pages from your book that I have sent you. Looking forward to hearing more. Do you want me to contact Susan at all for you?