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Thread #46570   Message #692558
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
17-Apr-02 - 11:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers
Subject: RE: BS: Advice for US Midwest Travelers
Hey, Wisconsin has all sorts of great stuff. In Janesville, (where Coyote Breath has visited) there is a white buffalo. To the Plains Indians, the birth of a White Buffalo was comparable to the second coming of Christ. When the White Buffalo was born a couple of years ago, people came from all over the world to see it. The Japanese took pictures. One indian walked from the Great Plains to Janesville... a trip of several hundred miles, left a gift on the metal fence that leads into the Pasture, turned around and walked back home. If you want to see the White Buffalo, there is NO ADMISSION CHARGE! This is Wisconsin, where they don't sock it to you every time that you turn around. When you're driving down the river road, toot your horn. Me Mom might be sitting out in a lawn chair as you drive by.

Or, you could go up to the Wisconsin Dells and have breakfast in a lumber camp mess hall with food served on tin plates, family style. In New Glarus,there's a Swiss settlement with great traditional foods, and a settler's village. Up in Spring Green, you can visit Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio, and nearby you can go to the House On The Rock... one of the most indescribable places on earth. The tour inside the house is three miles long. That's right.. Or you can go to the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, where Barnum and Bailey wintered their circus (I know it sounds stupid..) In Madison, you can see the cultural Center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright overlooking Lake Mendota. Or, you can go to Milwaukee and watch the Brewers get whupped.

Every State has a wealth of great places to explore. After you finish Wisconsin, you can try Illinois, or better yet, hop across the Mississippi to Iowa and Missouri.

Jerry (a Nutmegger now... for our friends across the sea, that means I live in Connecticut, the nutmeg state. Nutmegs were used as a form of currency in Colonial times.. what kind of a state prides themselves in being the home of nuts?)