Sunday - July 24 2022 - Munising MI to Madison WI

 

Breakfast at the motel (pretty good) and then filled up with $3.97 gas across the road. It feels like gas is getting cheaper (certainly cheaper than the $5.70 in Canada) and it got cheaper as we went south today. We said goodbye to Munising but we will be back when we can spend more time. Today we go to Madison WI where we have not been. It is the capitol of Wisconsin and also home to the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Great country music channels here (I am slowly making a convert out of Deb) and a couple podcasts burns up the road. Left over pizza (cold pizza is the best) in the car for lunch.

Got to Madison and blown away by how beautiful the capital building is. Bonus tidbit, All the granite came from Vermont!. The information guy says they must have wiped us out because it's such a big building. We will make more..

The a nice walk down State Street which is a pedestrian street that runs between the capital building and the UW campus on the lake shore. UW has a beautiful campus right on the water and it was a beautiful summer Sunday so everybody was on the waterfront. You can get food and pitchers of beer and sit on the tables right in front of all the boats on the lake.

There was an engineering competition which involved cardboard and duct tape to make boats with people in them. By the time we got there it was mostly wet pulp but lots of big smiles.

Then the long walk back to the capitol building where we parked (for free). I think Sunday afternoon was the perfect time to hit the down town.

Deb navigated us south of town to the hotel for the night. Load of laundry and then a light dinner (remember the pizza). John Deere in Moline IL tomorrow.