Eating Our Way Through Madison, Wisconsin (Mostly)
test Of course we went to the National Mustard Museum in Middleton (a western suburb of Madison). I can’t say it was very exciting–mostly a bunch of mustard jars from around the world to look …
The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
test Of course we went to the National Mustard Museum in Middleton (a western suburb of Madison). I can’t say it was very exciting–mostly a bunch of mustard jars from around the world to look …
The Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center is a “sort-of” Frank Lloyd Wright building in Madison, Wisconsin. Wright proposed his first design for a “dream civic center” in 1938, but it wasn’t actually built until …
We spent a week or so around Madison, Wisconsin, parked up for much of that time at a campground in William G. Lunney Lake Farm County Park. The meadows and marshes in the park had …
In early May, we needed to make an emergency trip from Kansas back east to New Jersey (1,100 miles in just over a day, woo-hoo!). After a few weeks on the East Coast, we reversed …
Doug and I spent a few hours in the Morton Arboretum birding and enjoying the trees and flowers. Even though we walked a few miles, we only saw a fraction of what there is to …
We used the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, as a stopping point on a long drive. Its origins date back to 1949 when local resident Mary Marchand Woods bequeathed her estate to …
We’ve had the Wharton Esherick Museum and Studio in Malvern, Pennsylvania, on our radar for a long time now, but it has been nearly impossible to get tickets as each hour-long tour can accommodate just …
The Washington Memorial Chapel is located in Valley Forge National Historical Park in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Though located within the park, the church and surrounding property is owned by the Episcopal Church. The chapel was …
We had to make an emergency trip home to New Jersey, so we naturally took some walks and tried to find new birds while we were in town.
America’s National Churchill Museum on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, Missouri, certainly feels out of place! I mean, Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, so what’s a full-blown museum to him …