Amateur Traveler episode 842. Today the amateur traveler talks about lakes and

water parks, supper clubs and state parks, museums and cheese heads as we go

to the state of Wisconsin.

This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler.

Let's talk about Wisconsin.

I'd like to welcome to show Danelle Gay from Traveling Cheesehead.com and if you couldn't guess from that

today we're going to be talking about Wisconsin. Danelle welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

And with a website like traveling cheesehead.com,

I'm guessing you are from Wisconsin.

We're not just talking about Wisconsin.

Yes, born and bred here.

No, we do not all drive tractors.

We don't all have pet cows, but we do all love our cheese.

We always used to pick up a five pound block of cheese from the neighborhood dairy when we went back to see my mother's family near Appleton, Wisconsin, so I completely understand. She just couldn't find the kind of

cheese she wanted out in California.

Oh, of course not. We have, I think, over 600 different kinds and we have more master cheese makers in Wisconsin than anywhere else in the world.

So yeah, the cheese here, it's good.

Excellent.

Why should someone go to Wisconsin?

It is a great place to explore. It's got it stunning

natural beauty, unique history and just a vibrant culture from the great

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