Sunday, October 9, 2011

Fall Day Trip



Saturday, we took a day trip to Wisconsin.

We love going to Wisconsin, it is our favorite weekend getaway location. We have a long list of things we like to do in the Madison and Milwaukee areas, as well as in the Kettle Moraine State Forest Region.

Yesterday morning after enjoying a delicious break at the Pilot Club of Iowa City breakfast we hit the road and headed up to the Kettle Moraine area.

Our first stop was Baker. Baker is best known for their string cheese. We found out about them and Kettle Moraine when we were visiting another local dairy and someone recommended that we check out Baker and Kettle Moraine. We were not disappointed.

Baker makes great string cheese and we drove by a number of the dairy farms that supply them with milk on the way, so that was neat.

Next we made a quick drive through part of Kettle Moraine State Forest to get to Beechwood, home of Beechwood Cheese Co.

We first had Beechwood cheese curds during a visit to Sprecher Brewery. We bought a small package of them while we sampling Sprecher products after a tour once. After that we looked up the location of the dairy and discovered it was less than an hour from Milwaukee and we've been going there ever since.

We then headed back to Kettle Moraine State Forest where we drove back and forth down Scenic Drive (that's the actual name of a road that runs through a beautiful stretch of the forest), walked around and enjoyed the beauty of the forest.



This a video we made of our drive through the forest. I was driving and my husband was running the camera.

As you can see from the video, the forest was gorgeous with all the leaves turning and falling.

After we enjoyed the forest, we drove to Milwaukee where we went to Kopp's for a cheeseburger, fries and chocolate frozen custard. It was delicious. I'm not a big fan of restaurant or fast food burgers, but Kopp's is one of the three places where I will happily eat a cheeseburger. Their fries are handmade and tasty, but what Kopp's is known for is their custard. It is so smooth and full of flavor. It was a great way to wrap up the day before we headed back to Iowa.

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