Wisconsin- Wisconsin Dells

On our way back home to Illinois, we opted to do the 10 minute longer drive and chose the route through Wisconsin.

We were welcomed to Wisconsin by super cell thunderstorms, blinding rain, and even some hail. We had to pull off on the shoulder twice because we could see nothing.

After about 40 min of nail biting, 40mph driving, we break out of the storm line and the sky is lovely again. We drive uneventfully for around 2 more hours and stop in Wisconsin Dells. 

I imagine this place to be a cross of Branson, MO and Las Vegas, NV.. I've never been to Branson, but along one strip of road they have an amusement park, complete with water park, another stand alone water park, tourist traps, an 'Indian tradepost', a hotel in the shape of the Roman coliseum, people EVERYWHERE, and those people walking out into the road whenever they want, shops selling cheap trinkets, and a few neat places, like a science observatory and a zombie obstacle course. 

We stopped at the Top Secret upsidedown white house. It was $5/person to walk through, so we decided why not? We needed to get out of the car for awhile and stretch our legs. It was neat, kinda quirky and fun. Its pretty much exactly as it sounds, they built a building to appear as though it fell from the sky and then attached everything to the ceilings so you feel like you are in a building that landed upsidedown. 

Tours are self-guided and you can go through at your own pace. Its pretty dimly lit, and in my opinion would make a very good haunted house. You get to go through 'secret tunnels' and they have a tunnel that spins around you and makes you want to throw up. 

If we hadn't been so tired and still had a 5 hour drive ahead of us, right next to this Top Secret roadside attraction was a deer park where you could feed and pet deer. Also, I would have ROCKED the zombie obstacle course. 

Once you get off 'the strip' traffic goes down to nothing and Wisconsin Dells is like any other small town along the interstate. We stopped at their Walmart to buy a case of water and some snack food so we wouldn't have to stop, and got back on the road.

Did we EXPERIENCE Wisconsin? Eh. Not really. But the point of this roadtrip was do stop and do something in each of the three states we were driving through, so that's what we did.