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Looking for a hotel that does everything just right while surrounding you with Milwaukee’s brewing history? Then you belong at the Brewhouse Inn and Suites in the renovated Pabst brewery complex. This boutique hotel is Read More …
The area around Mankato, Minnesota, has an active visual arts community, and the Carnegie Art Center is a great place to see some of their work on display. Since 1981, the city’s historic Carnegie Library Read More …
Arriving in Milwaukee on a rainy afternoon, we knew exactly where to head for a late lunch: the Milwaukee Public Market. Located downtown in the city’s historic Third Ward, the Milwaukee Public Market is a Read More …
There are lots of reasons for me to love Jay Cooke State Park: beautiful fall foliage (or spring flowers), weird geology, rushing cascades, easy-to-reach scenic overlooks, and historic buildings. But there is one thing that Read More …
We’ve had a balmy fall in the Upper Midwest this year, with mostly warm days and frostless nights. While this is lovely weather for exploring, it has slowed the progression of fall color as the Read More …
Watching the Milwaukee Art Museum open its wings It’s not every day you can watch a building take a morning stretch, unless, of course, you are in Milwaukee. Here visitors and residents alike have that Read More …
Minnesota’s Jay Cooke State Park is spectacular in any season, but it really shines when the leaves begin to glow with fall color. I’m not sure why, but in the dozens of times I’ve driven Read More …
Time is a shapeshifter at California’s Mission San Juan Bautista. San Juan Bautista is a place where the past slips into the present, where both the church building and the religious life conducted within it Read More …
Saint Croix State Park is one of those places that isn’t really that far away, but isn’t right along the way to anywhere either. The fact that it is in a rather out-of-the-way location (and Read More …
One of the good/bad things about tours is that they force you to go places you would not go on your own. In my case that includes pretty much anything connected to sports. I use Read More …