Friday, January 22, 2010

Wisconsin

Appleton
Houdini Historic Center

Bailey’s Harbor
Yacht Club and Resort

Baraboo
Circus World Museum (kids as clowns, jugglers)

Chequamegon National Forest
Apostle Islands (kayaking)
Meyer’s Beach
wild blueberries
Birch Grove Campgrounds

Dells
Stand Rock, Witched Gulf, Phantom Chamber
Noah’s Ark (water park)
weird sandstone formations
Circus World Museum
largest concentration of water parks (3 miles of Highway 12)
Rain Tree Resort
Am Club and Polish-Am Buffet (smorgasbord)

Door County
Peninsula State Park- Eagle Tower
dunes, historic lighthouses

Fish Creek
Oilery (sample freshly pressed olive oils in variety of flavors)

Franksville
Kraut Festival (June)

Green Bay
Packers Experience (summer)

Hayward
Lumberjack World Championship (July; 21 events: boom run, ax throwing, pole climbing)

Horeb
Mustard Museum

Madison
Chocolate Shoppe (unusual flavors of ice cream)
State Street (food)
Ian's Pizza (varieties: chili cheese frito, avocado, burrito, chicken pot pie, barbecue steak and fries, lasagna marinara; daily specials)

Manitowish
canoeing (10 connected lakes)

Milwaukee
Kopps Frozen Custard (custard has egg yolks; many varieties--about 300, check online for tomorrow's flavor of the day)
Festa Italiana (summer)
State Fair (early-mid Aug)
Mercado El Rey (menudo, beef taco, tongue)
Polonez Restaurant (stuffed cabbage, pierogis, meat and sauerkraut, zernina (duck and noodles)
ethnic groups: Polish, Hispanic


Monroe
Swiss Colony (Snowman melti--peanuts and coconut oil)

New Glarus Bakery (Swiss, nuthorn)

Oshkosh
Ardy and Ed’s (drive-in rest)
AirVenture Fly-In (acrobats in sky, July)

Seymour
Burger Festival (August)

Sister Bay
Al Johnson’s Restaurant (goats eat sod roof; Swedish pancakes)

Sheboygan
Bratwurst Festival (August)

Spring Green
House on the Rock (16 themed buildings all built on a rock: 19th C shopfronts, living room, aviation, Infinity, library, overhang room--218 feet long of windows high in air, world's largest indoor carousel--20,000 lights, 269 animals but no horses)

Sturgeon Bay
Latham Smith Lodge

Warrens
Cranberry Museum

Wausau
International Watercross Association (snowmobiles racing over water)

West Allis
State Fair (Aug)

White Gull Inn
Old Post Office Restaurant (restored general store)
Perry’s Cherry Diner (cheap)

Wisconsin Dells
Wilderness Resort (pool)

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Corn Festival (Aug)
Collector Showcase Museum (barbies)
Nicolet National Forest (Brule River)
Canoeing (Black River State Forest, Flambeau River, Wisconsin River, St Croix and Namekagon, Brois Brule
Kettle Moraine State Forest
Lake Geneva (tour on cruise line: watch mail delivered by boat)

Trivia
more Poles than any other state
produces 25% of cheese

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