Madison
Travel Blogs from Madison, United States
Wisconsin State Capitol, Downtown Madison, and UW
... on State street. We ate at Tutto Pasta. Their food is OK, even though the salmon was pretty nice. Then we walked all the way to University of Wisconsin and took some pictures. I think Madison is a pretty nice city. Very simple, just like Eugene, ...
Local Airports
Got to Madison Airport this morning. IT sure is nice flying out of a regional airport. A lady on the plane next to me had her dog in a pet carrier. The dog was very well behaved. I checked an empty shipping case to China, the TSA ...
Jour 2 - étape London, ontario - Madison, Wisconsi
... non, c'est encore mieux. On a gagné une heure! Il est 17h vu le changement de fuseau horaire! Nous arrivons au confort Inn, Madison, Wisconsin. Ville assez populeuse, beaucoup de voitures en circulation. Pour ce qui est de l'hôtel, il y règne une ...
Cheese Heads
... and we had tornados in the area. The next day we decided not to go to the waterparks in Wisconsin Dells and check out Madison instead before moving on to Minnesota. We enjoyed Madison and had a good time walking down State street. We got some ...
More art and another capitol
... building built in 2001 but it's mostly the ticket office, a gift shop, a theater and parking. I left the museum and rushed to Madison to the Wisconsin State Capitol Building. It was full of kids when I got there. It seems to be the season for ...
Crowne Plaza Madison
... Crowne Plaza is being renovated, but in any case, they gave us a room on the Executive floor, and a free breakfast for one person so it was all good. Tomorrow we are going to go to downtown Madison and then it will be a long drive to Cedar Rapids, ...
Day Dreaming
I step outside the Van Hise building and the sun kisses my face and I close my eyes. I open my eyes and I find myself on the deck of the Galapagos Explorer II and I am warm for the first time in weeks. I am sitting on a woven deck chair on the private ...
GET OVER! GET OVER!
We made it to De Forest, WI in 7.5 hours. Not bad. The funniest part of the first leg of our trip was back in Michigan, around Jackson, this big gray truck pulled up next to me as I was crusing down 94 doing about 80. Beautiful, sunny, Sunday ...
Yellowstone Again
... enjoying some hot soup we pressed on into Yellowstone . Four years ago while driving through the park we walked through a RV camp called Madison, and what impressed Jo the most was the Bison walking through the camp, so it was this memory that took us to ...
Wisconsin is purdy
So, i had a pretty incredible time in madison, especially since i wasn't even expecting to stop there, but wanted a day to rest and it was a nice place. Wisconsin is absolutely gorgeous, though it's hard to tell fully because pictures are 2-d. So i got ...
Home again Home again
... hardy fisher people. I reconnected with my friends at line dance and actually remembered some of the dances. Stayed in Madison for 2 weeks while I caught up on doctor appointments. I was reminded why I left as the weather was damp and ...
Slippin and slidin on water slides and memory lane
... so intrigued Ro that he took a picture. Turns out, we just missed Steve Earle! We then went to one of the greatest things about Madison, the Vilas Park Zoo, which is a free public zoo right in the middle of a park in the city. They have added a lot of ...
Stuck on the Bridge
On our way back into Illinois, we had to drive across the Fort Madison Toll Bridge from Fort Madison back into Illinois. But we got backed up in bad traffic on the bridge, because part of the bridge was rotated sideways so that a barge could pass through. ...
PDO at UW Madison
The 2010 Fulbright-Hays seminar is organized by the US-India Educational Foundation. USIEF has ties with UW Madison - thus the location of our pre-departure orientation. Its mission is to promote mutual understanding among citizens of India and the US via ...
Making a quick trip through 3 states
A real, hot breakfast at the hotel then on the road again. We traveled into Illinois and took 294 around Chicago. Passed O'Hare International Airport. On 294, the rest stop is called an "oasis" and it stretches across the highway. Just ...
IM IN AMERICA!!!!!
HELLO! just a quick thing to let you know that i am here safe and aboslutely loving it! sorry i couldnt update this sooner but theres only one computer for the whole camp and ive literally been working 24/7 which is so tiring but good! This weeks just ...
Madison
... up there with them. I suppose the University of Wisconsin - Madison being the number one party school in the entire United States could have something to do with the crazed bellows coming from next door. It also doesn't hurt to be situated ...
How it all began...
This whole trip started last summer as a way to get mom, dad, J., A. and M. together to travel to Italy and Paris. This would have been a repeat trip for most (J. met up with us in Paris, but was studying in Germany at the time, so missed the Italy ...
Leaving Madison
Said bye to all the kids, the cats, and the awesome Midvale house and drove home to Green ...
day 36 (82 miles)
... george noticed that there was a quicker path from the county back roads we were taking that avoided going through downtown madison. unfortunately, we didn't discover that the route was quicker because the church was flagged in the wrong location until we ...
Madison, Wisconsin
Well, so far so good. We are stopped for the night in Madison, Wisconsin. The RV has been performing great with no issues at all. Kristi and the boys are at Walmart stocking up for Yellowstone while I rest a bit. Today was a solid 10 hours of driving, two ...
familiar feeling
... turned off our engines and pushed our bikes along slowly. We've gone through Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and now we're in Madison, Wisconsin. There aren't any 'border crossings' as such and sometimes not even a sign to tell you you're in another state. ...

