I ventured out to Bray Road once when I was working in Milwaukee. My band has a song called "The Beast of Bray Road" on our first record, and when you open the CD jacket the facing photograph is of Bray Road. I went stomping around looking for signs of Bigfoot with Linda Godfrey (who wrote the BoBR book) on another trip. I love that area!
The biggest disappointment that first trip was that I wound up in Lake Geneva, home of the late, great Gary Gygax, and learned there's no towering monument to him anywhere.
You probably don’t have time for this, but I just finished reading/commenting here, and was scrolling down my other newsletters and ran across this castle of cheese in Wisconsin with a cow that spouts cheese facts and if that’s not worth a side trip if you have any extra time at all, I don’t know what is: https://www.brokenpalate.com/p/wisconsin-has-a-palace-of-cheese
I know a woman named Mara who has been to the Cheese Palace. Her brother is a graphic designer and gave her an image with the sign perfectly remade to say, "Mara's Cheese Palace."
I just looked up House on the Rock and Holy Bejezus. Is it possible for one human trip to contain both that and a cheese palace? Only the bravest would attempt it. You’ll have to report back if you (and Sarah?) ever give it a go.
I dunno, I think an essay on that album would be pretty awesome. The dance move -- also awesome but if Leo is already wearing a look of terror I guess it doesn’t bode well for the rest of us. I had to go look up the Lenni-Lenape and I’m glad I did. Oh, and cheese-curd-a-palooza sounds amazing, can’t wait to read all about it & envy your tastebuds from afar.
I ventured out to Bray Road once when I was working in Milwaukee. My band has a song called "The Beast of Bray Road" on our first record, and when you open the CD jacket the facing photograph is of Bray Road. I went stomping around looking for signs of Bigfoot with Linda Godfrey (who wrote the BoBR book) on another trip. I love that area!
The biggest disappointment that first trip was that I wound up in Lake Geneva, home of the late, great Gary Gygax, and learned there's no towering monument to him anywhere.
I've got one of Godfreys books staring at me from a shelf. And that's a shame about Gygax. No giant 20 sided die? What the hell?
You probably don’t have time for this, but I just finished reading/commenting here, and was scrolling down my other newsletters and ran across this castle of cheese in Wisconsin with a cow that spouts cheese facts and if that’s not worth a side trip if you have any extra time at all, I don’t know what is: https://www.brokenpalate.com/p/wisconsin-has-a-palace-of-cheese
Unfortunately I'm not going to have to have much free time after Monday afternoon, so I'm confining my adventures to Madison.
This cheese palace, like so many cheese palaces before it, will have to remain a cheese palace of the mind then. Have a great trip!
I know a woman named Mara who has been to the Cheese Palace. Her brother is a graphic designer and gave her an image with the sign perfectly remade to say, "Mara's Cheese Palace."
I want to take a road trip to House on the Rock anyway, that's Cheese Palace time
I just looked up House on the Rock and Holy Bejezus. Is it possible for one human trip to contain both that and a cheese palace? Only the bravest would attempt it. You’ll have to report back if you (and Sarah?) ever give it a go.
That will be premium content™
I dunno, I think an essay on that album would be pretty awesome. The dance move -- also awesome but if Leo is already wearing a look of terror I guess it doesn’t bode well for the rest of us. I had to go look up the Lenni-Lenape and I’m glad I did. Oh, and cheese-curd-a-palooza sounds amazing, can’t wait to read all about it & envy your tastebuds from afar.