MN, IO, and WI

MN, IO, and WI

Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin

A Road Trip

April 13-16, 2018

Each year, I go to a state I have never visited.  I fly to a major city and rent a car and take off for four or five days to places unknown.  I didn't visit a new state last year so I had to visit two this year.  I also decided to tag on a third state since these places are so remote to me. So I mapped out a route and thought for sure that winter would be passed but this time but I was wrong. I was deep in to a  painful winter weekend.  I was under prepared for this cold weather.

• It snowed all damn weekend. And it rained and sleeted and had high gusts of winds. Driving was a dangerous challenge.
• Visited Pulpit Rock Brewery.
• Stopped in at Toppling Goliath Brewery.
• Went to the Karst Brewery.
• Crossed the Mississippi River from Wisconsin to Michigan and it was a thrill.
• Crossed the Mississippi River from Iowa to Wisconsin and it was also a thrill.
• Ordered a subscription to HuLu because I was so damn bored in my hotel room.
• I had an order of potato chips that were covered with three different cheeses and then came with a side of Gorgonzola cheese spread.  It's great to be in cheese country.
• I thought I would see more dairy farms and cows. I saw miles and miles of farms but they didn't seem to be dairy.
• There are thousands of fields of farms that melt in to the horizon.
• Visited the Grumpy Troll Brewery- WI
• The towns were few and far between and the populations were so small that there was very little commerce.

Unfinished Business- Because of the challenging weather, I saw very little of this area.  I still need to: 

• Walk down Main Street in Mount Horeb to see all of the trolls.
• Visit the frank Lyod Wright house in Wisconsin.
• Take a boat ride down the Mississippi River.
• Wander around Madison.