Sheraton Madison

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 ...

... other people selling water at the lights rubbish car yard after car yard you can get an idea of what the area is like by the quality of the cars in the car yards with the cars getting better as we moved up the street. This goes on for miles and miles. <br><br>Somehow we ended up under an overhead railway just like the movies. We were stuck behind a bus and couldn&#8217;t move when a loud explosion happened behind us. Everyone on the street jumped the car in front of us pulled over ...

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

Barb and I started our journey with a three hour bus ride to O'Hare. When we checked in for our flight, we were pleasantly suprised that British Air had provided us a complimentary upgrade to its "Economy Plus" seating. With the wider seats and more legroom, we must say that it was the most comfortable long haul long haul flight we've been on. The free drinks and in-flight entertainment made it all that more enjoyable.<br>

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 ...

... and yet in my travels I encountered far more destinations that I would like to visit again, and others that I would like to visit sometime during my life. I must confess, however, that nonstop travel is definitely not for me. I realized that I appreciate places more when I am there on short visits and am then able to return to a home base. In an odd way, London, and not America, was that home base both in a physical and emotional sense. A place that felt ...

... from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on December 18th. From there, you will just have to see what happens to me. Peace, Anders p.s. me and spelling, appropriate use of capital letters, proper grammer and sentence structure do not really get along. So, dont expect much when it comes to proper writing.

... house for snacks: 'Do you like birds? I like birds. We have nice birds here.' Her parents had quite a spread set up and I was very pleased with her mothers hospitality...that was until she started into her Evangelical spiel. I learned that this so called 'free' tour had a cost. Not a monetary one, but a handful of International Fellowship, evangelical, church related propaganda, as well as an earful about how evangelicals love ...

... was just to prepare for leaving. I still had plane tickets to pick up, "last-minute" items to buy... several times, and, of course, my home for the next year needed to be organized into a little black bag. Thankfully I had amazing help along the way to get this all done - HUGE THANKS Mom, Dad, Tina, Erica, Paul, Chris and Adam!!! Well, after all this is done and I have recovered from a mild-flu I got while burning myself out - I am ...