On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:59:06 -0500, "Gregory Morrow"
> wrote:

>
>Lou Decruss wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:44:40 -0500, Janet Wilder
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >One summer we went to see Door County. Some RVing acquaintances had been
>> >raving about it. It was very touristy. I remarked to a lady in the RV
>> >park that I was surprised with the amount of tourist kitch. She was a
>> >local and said that the area where people from Chicago went for
>vacations.
>>
>> There's lots of areas like that. Most are pretty empty in the winter
>> so the cheese-heads can get down to some serious beer drinking. <g>
>
>
>And drunkenly crashing their snowmobiles through the ice on their way to the
>tavern...

Ain't that the truth!
>
>> >It could have been a lovely place without the tourist-tentacles. I did
>> >enjoy a fish boil and we did a lot of sightseeing on the lower part of
>> >Door County where there are pretty farms and cherry orchards and hardly
>> >any vacationers from Chicago.
>>
>> Oh yes there are some beautiful areas there. SW Wisconsin is very
>> hilly and some of the views in the country are amazing.
>
>
>Lotsa good locally - made cheese 'n stuff around there...and Madison has
>what is considered the best farmer's market in the entire US.

The August issue of Chicago magazine has an article called
"destination Madison" speaking of the foodie attributes of Madison.
The cheese, beer, Dane county farmers market etc. all make it quite a
city. I also like Monroe and New Glarus. Mt. Horeb is a cool place
too.

http://www.mustardweb.com/history-museum.htm

Lou