Comfort Inn Madison

... Wisconsin, we proudly donned some cheese heads and Sammy got his picture made with the giant farmer holding cheese and a sausage. You'd have to be there to understand. Minnesota has really taken on environmental issues with hundreds of huge windmills. The last stop of the day was dinner in Sioux Falls, SD. We ate at Bob's made famous in the Roadfood book. It was as described. We love it and the owners. Time for bed. On to Mt Rushmore........

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 ...

We rode for 630km today .... a bit more really because we did a few detours trying to find a place for a deep-pan pizza lunch (very difficult since most places are closed on Sundays, which we didn't know - or expect!) and at around the 200 km mark on my odometer, we found ourselves on the Chicago Sky route (this narrow highway 'bridge' with no shoulder) and so we had to turn off quickly to try and find any gas station or risk me running ...

I spent most of yesterday riding the bus from the Twin Cities to Madison, and saw countless water towers and cheese billboards along the way. I knew I wanted to come through Wisconsin (yes, mostly for the cheese!), but I wasn't sure about Milwaukee - another large Amercian city to be seen between Minneapolis and Chicago. I opted to visit the capital of Madison instead, partly for its many claims to "fame"; most cyclable city, most pedestrian-friendly, gay ...

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 ...

... 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 ...