Beyond cheese and the Green Bay Packers, Wisconsin is perhaps best known for the Wisconsin Dells. The Waterpark Capitol of the World, Wisconsin Dells is a popular year-round vacation destination. Several million people mecca to The Dells each year, road tripping…
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The year was 1989 and Michigan’s Adventure was in its second year as Michigan’s Adventure and not Deer Park Funland. I traveled to the park for an end-of-year reward with a group of fifth grade students graduating from the school…
The year was 2014 and I was road tripping across Minnesota, on my way to Walnut Grove, Pipestone National Monument, and ultimately Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A stop in Austin, Minnesota to visit the iconic SPAM® Museum was on my…
Indianapolis, Indiana is one of my favorite urban destinations in all of America. Unlike some major cities that empty out on the weekends, much of what Indianapolis has to offer tourists is quite literally in the heart of downtown. Within…
While driving through Southern Minnesota a few years ago, I realized we were in the heart of Laura Ingalls Wilder country. Pioneer author made famous by the Little House on the Prairie television series, Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in Iowa,…
Between the years 2010 and 2015, I visited just about every children’s museum, public museum, history museum, and discovery center in the state of Wisconsin (with the exception of the Northwood’s Children’s Museum in Eagle River and the relatively new…