By Gio Arteaga
For starters, I would like to preface this article by saying these are my personal opinions about the state and I see them with all love!
For about a year and a half I have been in a long-distance relationship with my boyfriend Kayden Lee Welch. I have been to Wisconsin a total of five times so I can call myself an expert and am very familiar with the layer of the land that is Wisconsin. Every single time I set foot on that big metal tube, waiting anxiously while shaking—partly because of how bad these pilots are— and my own anxiety; there’s something that really does shock me: there are no mountains. As someone who’s from a valley with mountains enclosing us inwards, being out there is freeing, but also pretty vanilla because (to everyone’s surprise) there’s nothing to do. Below are a few things you should keep in mind before visiting with family and the kids!
Expect to do close to nothing (almost)!
Wisconsin is a state that’s part of the Great Plains in the Midwestern United States, so the only thing separating you from not seeing the entire state or the trees, and even those are sparse! Some solutions to this problem are brain board games, meeting family, and knowing someone with a pool.
There’s decently good food…but…culvers…
Okay this is going to be a tangent, I have had a few fast food places in my life, but nothing that we have in the Bay Area even comes CLOSE to the beauty that is Culvers. This beauty of a midwestern food chain has the most curated food menu I have ever seen, from burgers, tenders, frozen custard, cheese curds, and the soft pretzels. I’m going to say a bold statement, the soft pretzels from Culvers are better than the measly Auntie Annes or Wetzels Pretzels. The buttery golden crust that is on the outside of these soft pretzels. So, my order recommendations are as follows: one large order of the soft pretzel bites—served with cheese, cheese curds, a three-piece chicken tender meal, and an order of vanilla frozen custard.
There’s a really cool waterpark but also the waterpark is two hours away.
Something that’s really foreign to me is everything being a minimum of 45 minutes away from each other. Being from a place where everything is a maximum of 20 minutes from my house, which is still far, however, my boyfriend goes to school in a small town called Elkhorn (that’s really nice by the way) but is 45 MINUTES AWAY FROM HIS HOUSE! That is bizarre to m,e and it really applies to everything from food, friends, and even his work. In this instance, there’s a waterpark in the Wisconsin Dells called Noah’s Arc Water Park that claims to be the “biggest waterpark.” While it’s nice, again, it’s TWO HOURS away from this water park that’s extremely mid-tear, but is very cool.