A few days in Spring Green

Except once in while when I'm riding my bike, I am quite aware of just how flat the land truly is in and around Chicago. For mountains, we must look to the walls of buildings lining Michigan Ave. or LaSalle; so it's a pleasant change to find myself surrounded by at least rolling hills.

Spring Green at about a 3 1/2 hour ride, is too far for a day trip, but makes for an easy weekend destination. Save for the unending stream of often disappointing, always nerve wracking, fencing trips; we had not gone away much lately; so we were happy to join friends on a quick trip.

The first night there we saw "Comedy of Errors." It was performed outside, the actors were good, the weather was perfect.

The architectural style of the House on the Rock could best be describes as a cross between the Hobbits, and a van from the 70s. This is what King Arthur would have built, if he was 5 feet tall, orange shag carpeting had been invented, and he was "Tripping on acid."

House on the rock has a massive collection of, well, collections.

This is clearly not the work of a curator carefully selecting the choicest examples exemplifying a particular style. This is about "The more, the bigger, the better.

From dolls, to guns, room-sized nickelodeons filled with a complete symphony of instruments, each slightly out of tune, playing while 10 other machines each playing their own tune, can be heard.

The very idea that there is a place called the Mustard Museum, demands that you visit.

We also went to this cute little Norwegian town. Cute to look at today as a visitor; but it would have been one very difficult life to have to live.