Baymont Inn And Suites Madison West

The weather was the story today as we traveled from Chicago to Madison, WI. Things were great until we reached Madison and then all the elements combined to make an interesting evening. But we weren't deterred. We walked thru the campus and down State St to see the impressive capitol building. Monday morning we took off for our end point of Mitchell, SD. Along the way, we saw farms, cows, and more farms as we drove thru WI, Minn and SD. Before ...

Wow, can't believe it's been a year since I left my house and moved onto the road. With hindsight I wish I took more pictures. I was in great places where I didn't document with my camera. Hopefully this next year I will be again motivated to write in this travel blog and take more pictures.<br><br>While I was in Madison I had a great time! So many good friends! I took photos of the Dairyland Cowboys and Cowgirls barn dance, the Union Terrace and ...

... the popular and<br>delicious Chicago beef sandwich and I have to admit i caved and ordered<br>a huge plate of<br>msg-filled Chinese food from 'Panda Express' :) <br><br>We<br>were still pretty energetic so we decided to ride for another couple of<br>hours.... we hit a massive traffic jam about 30 kms into it and were<br>stuck for quite a while. More clutch-control exercises for me!! There<br>was a major car crash on the other side but traffic did ...

... a dry tank. We ended up detouring around some local airport in an industrial area - a very 'interesting' insight into Chicago's suburbs. But at least we found a petrol station in the end. <br><br>Going through Chicago itself was fantastic. The skyline is beautiful, and although we got stuck in brutal traffic for over an hour (going at about 10km/hr) this will probably be the only major city we actually ride through. But we were glad to ...

... Greek culture and is mostly full of Baroque architecture. It has 94,000 residents which is fairly small compared to Florence which has 365,000 or Rome with 2,700,000. The University i'll be studying at is ...

From Roswell we traveled north through a tip of Texas. No photos but lots of memories of seeing and smelling cows in feed lots. We drove through a nasty little snow storm in Kansas City, MO. and I now know how well Shorty Too travels in the show.<br><br>Madison was significantly colder than NM, the lakes were ...

... a lot of people ask me for my itinerary so I figured I would just include a very brief summary. We've had some problems the last few weeks with our trip, and instead of going on a 36 day trip, we are going on what is really 3 trips (one large one and then two little ones). We are flying out on the 8th and will get to Cape Town on the 10th. We plan on exploring and getting to know Africa our first few days and then early on the 13 our adventure starts ...

Hi ya'll this is Bob and I'm going to talk about the drive for us today. Ohio was a breeze. Even though we started late we did very well time wise UNTIL..we got about 20 miles outside of Chicago. There was an accident east of Chicago 2 semi's and it had traffic backed up 14 miles.. It took us 2 1/2 hrs just to get to O'hare. Then another semi just north the airport caused another 45 minute delay ...

... of the children who are in need of my help as well as the financial support of donations to the center. I am providing our correspondence (including the list of much needed supplies for the center) to those individuals who have expressed an interest in donating. The list of specific items that the center needs will surely help people in knowing where and how their montetary donations will be used to benefit the children at the Mercy center. As you and others have ...

... of Washington, DC that I've been to. I did some sketches of the animals and I might scan some of them to add but they are a little disorganized. As I remember my two favorites were the kangaroos and the orangutans that had a scale in the cage and you could see their weight when they got on it. Also the ...