Madison, WI

Well, let's see if you can guess the capitol of Wisconsin.  You can take your time and let me know later!

After leaving Livingston on Tuesday morning, we headed through the rain to Fargo.  It's always a great trip traveling through the Yellowstone River valley.  The river is really running full, but not at flood stage yet (and I emphasize the "yet").  Montana is called the Big Sky Country, but on Tuesday the sky was all covered with clouds and dripping rain.  Sometimes I think we should hire ourselves out as rainmakers wherever they are having a drought.  Crossed over into North Dakota - we left the Yellowstone River at Glendive to head north to the Missouri River by itself. 

Arrived in Fargo during a driving rainstorm which abated after a while.  Had dinner at Michelle and Adrian's and after dinner, Karen, Melanie and Melissa joined us for a glass of wine and conversation (OK, maybe there was more than one glass of wine, but who's counting).  On Wednesday, we left and originally were headed for Duluth and on through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; however, because that route led through Canada and was a little longer, we decided to cut southeast through Minneapolis-St Paul and then down to Rochester.  Since it was the wrong Rochester (we are looking for the one in New York), we continued.  Would have been nice to stop in LaCrosse and play golf, but alas the rain gods said that was not to be.

Minnesota and Wisconsin are both beautiful states to drive through - they're so green and scenic at this time of the year.  The crops are all starting to come up - it's a good thing they got the crops in because the ground is so saturated now, no wheeled vehicles could travel through the fields.

During today's travels, we got off the Interstate and took some of the US highways to see some of the countryside.  Stopped at one of the cheese outlets in Wisconsin and picked up some cheese curds - nice snack.

Arrived in Madison, the capitol of Wisconsin (see, you didn't even have to Google that little bit of information.  Should be an easy drive over to Rochester, NY from here - we plan on taking a couple of days and just enjoy the scenery (and also miss the Chicago tollways and traffic).  Hopefully, we'll get some sunshine for the rest of the trip.