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Madison Slideshow
Madison
Travel Blogs from Madison, United States
And we're off...
Sort of. We leave Madison around 6:00 p.m. tonight, fly into Detroit, and from there it's straight to Paris. We land at 11:30 a.m. local time. More importantly, it's supposed to be 59 degrees in Paris tomorrow. And sunny. No ice, no bitter wind, no ...
Starting out
... rig home, home and being in Cleveland. Then additional blogs will catch up on the summer trips, and my current travels. I left Madison and drove directly to Cleveland. The rig was named during one of my trips this summer with my friend Edna. ...
Welcome to Badger State
... Metallica "Death Magnetic" with skulls to boot. This was not going to fly, I now HAD to get a shirt. Unlike Chicago, main street Madison was quaint, no malls or lights or chain stores, I went into a 2nd hand store and found a shirt for $8.50, finally the ...
Badgers for a day
... an excellent free breakfast, and made friends with a Wisconsinite (very friendly, as were all of the Wisconsinites we met). Madison is beautiful (at least in the summer), in part because of its geography. The downtown portion of the city is ...
Madison
I arrived yesterday from Minneapolis to Madison. I need to thank April and Chester (plus Mike) for a great stay in Minneapolis, I had a lot of fun and a lot of good food :-) Madison is a very liberal town for being USA. Artsy hippie gayfriendly, the way I ...
Northbound
... 14 years. Former neighbors when we lived in Fort Wayne, and Phil was our dentist. Another great time catching up. Then on our way to Madison, Wisc. by way of Oak Lawn, Ill. In the rain, of course. Weather turned better in Oak Lawn as we stopped to visit ...
I'm putting my first pin on my map
Welcome to my travelogue. I'm going to try to keep dropping English right here before I reluctantly return to the US to attend law school...or something. This way you can see my photos, read my inner monologue, and generally roll your eyes at the ...
The start of the trip
Today is the start of my trip. Mom and dad, the very nice and loving parents that they are, drove me from Stevens Point back to Madison this morning. Had to hit up the Lands End outlet store on the west side to use up some of the gift card I won a while ...
Detroit - Motor City
Meine Ankunft in Windsor war eher unspektakulaer. Der Bahnhof der etwas abseits von der Stadt gelegen ist, ist mit dem oeffentlichen Nahverkehr verbunden. Aufgrund der etwas laengeren Zeit, die ich ueberbruecken musst, bis meine Schulfreundin mit ...
My friends bragging on Madison made me go!
... the campus, at the bottom of the hill was the state capitol, and in between a slow-traffic (mostly bikes) carnival of college shops, restaurants, bars and great vibes. Hat off to all my Midwestern friends who have been talking about Madison forever. ...
On the way back home
On our way back to chicago. Made a pit stop in Madison. (I think the Q sign was in ...
Madison, WI
Thursday, July 14th We drove in to Madison to check it out and decided to park near the capitol building so that we could walk around some. We ended up walking up and down State St. This was a cool street full of restaurants and small boutiques. We had a ...
my midwest base(ment)
After packing up my little perch in San Francisco, loading into a POD parked illegally, up millions of steps, and watching that thing drive away with all my stuff in it, I finally had a sense of relief. First step complete in starting my new ...
To Blog, Or Not To Blog
Hi Everyone! Thanks for taking the time to follow me on my very first blog! I went back and forth on the blogo-sphere decision because I have always had mixed feelings about being an author on one of these things. I never really thought people would ...
Off to the plane
We are off! Stay tuned for more updates! thanks for all of your support! Carol Lynn & ...
Countdown til Departure
34 Days until I leave!! I can't wait, who wouldnt want to go on a cruise around the world and get credit for ...
April 28, 2012--The Beginning
... continuously imploring us on the loud speaker, "Please clear the aisle so that we may begin the beverage service." It seems United's decision to use planes configured for commuter flights (more seats, fewer bathrooms) on a 5 1/2 flight wasn't a good ...
I'm leaving on a jet plane
Well it's 11:15 p.m. and my flight leaves at 6:30 a.m. tomorrow which means I have to wake up at 4:00 a.m. so you might be thinking to yourself what the heck am I still doing up? Haha. OH well I can sleep when I'm dead. I have my big ...
We made it
We pulled into our drive way about 8:30pm...exhausted. We were up since 6am Barcelona time ...which means it was actually 3:30am 9/19..not 8:30pm 9/18. Max did an awesome job flying. The flight from Barcelona to Toronto was about 9 ...
Off to Yellowstone NP
Back acked to Mallard Lake and spent night there. In for a swim. Water cold but invigorating. Parked in Yellowstone Cabins parking ...
Last night in the USA
... it begins...this blog is all about my adventures traveling to India with the Fulbright seminar in coordination with the United States India Educational Foundation, a program that introduces India's cultural heritage to U.S. educators. It's a joint venture ...
Wisconsin Bound
... band for a while, which brought back some college memories. We meet Ashley at the Student Union, which sits on one of Madison’s two lakes, with a beautiful patio under maple trees and overlooking the lake. We talked for a while (trying to explain ...
Pre-backpacking departure
Well I've got about 1 month before I depart with my best friend monica for costa rica!!! I happen to have caught a cold and so have been plotting and making headway on my plans for our backpacking adventure :) For anyone interested in the preparation ...
Madison
... Dells where they have one of the three Mir Space Stations that were built (one went into space, one was used as a ground version foer the misson, this was a spare). In Madison, I stayed with Andrew and Beth Ravesncroft. Great to see old ...
Home sweet home (well not mine)
Hello! So the first week is over and the kids left on friday was a fun week apart from i had some rude kids but all was ok. It was thunder storming and raining ALL week but that didnt stop us. We had an all camp activity on thursday which was fun and ...