I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 538. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about beer and parks and

polka, Harley Davidson motorcycles and the World's largest music festival as we go to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. As you do your Christmas shopping this year I hope you're saving some money there in the

budget to join me in India or Japan next year more about that at the end of the

show but now let's talk about Milwaukee.

I'd like to welcome to the show Barbara Ali from Milwaukee who has come to talk to us

about Milwaukee. Barbara welcome to the show. Thank you very much Chris.

I was going to use the city's nickname, come to talk to us about the and I don't know if the city even has a nickname.

I'm not sure that it does. I mean cream.

The wet city? They call it Cream City.

That a lot of the buildings are built from.

And most people think it has a beer reference.

Could you put Milwaukee on a map for us, first all? Sure it's about two hours north of

Chicago so we're right in the middle of the Midwest. Excellent and why should

someone come to Milwaukee? Well Milwaukee has appeared on a lot of lists lately and it seems

to be coming of age for the last 10 years it's moving from an industrial city

into an eclectic art center with all kinds of

interesting food and drink and its budget still. It isn't very expensive.

Okay. Are there specific highlights that you would recommend before we get into a typical

itinerary for Milwaukee?

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