Wisconsin State Capitol
Our quest to visit all the U.S. State Capitol buildings continues, with a tour of the Wisconsin State Capitol building, located in Madison. The building, which was completed in 1917 at a cost of $7.25 …
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Eating Our Way Through Madison, Wisconsin (Mostly)
test Of course we went to the National Mustard Museum in Middleton (a western suburb of Madison). I can’t say it was very exciting–mostly a bunch of mustard jars from around the world to look …
Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center
The Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center is a “sort-of” Frank Lloyd Wright building in Madison, Wisconsin. Wright proposed his first design for a “dream civic center” in 1938, but it wasn’t actually built until …
Sandhill Cranes (and Other Birds) in Madison, Wisconsin
We spent a week or so around Madison, Wisconsin, parked up for much of that time at a campground in William G. Lunney Lake Farm County Park. The meadows and marshes in the park had …
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A Mad Dash Across Some Great Lake States
In early May, we needed to make an emergency trip from Kansas back east to New Jersey (1,100 miles in just over a day, woo-hoo!). After a few weeks on the East Coast, we reversed …