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pours microbrews and hosts free live music and free Monday-night films, while the in-
door ice-cream shop scoops hulking cones from the university dairy.
Shopping
Fromagination FOOD
( 608-255-2430; www.fromagination.com ; 12 S Carroll St; 10am-6pm Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm Sat,
11am-4pm Sun) The state's best cheese shop specializes in small-batch and hard-to-find
local hunks. Browse the basket of 'orphans' by the cash register, where you can buy
small quantities for $2 to $5. The shop also sells sandwiches, beer and wine.
Information
Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau ( www.visitmadison.com )
Getting There & Around
Badger Bus ( www.badgerbus.com ) uses Memorial Union as its pick-up/drop-off point for
trips to Milwaukee ($19, two hours), as does Megabus ( www.megabus.com/us ) for trips to
Chicago (four hours) and Minneapolis (4½ hours).
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Taliesin & Southern Wisconsin
This part of Wisconsin has some of the prettiest landscapes in the state, particularly the
hilly southwest. Architecture fans can be unleashed at Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright
ubersight, and Racine, where two of his other works stand. Dairies around here cut a lot
of cheese.
Racine
Racine is an unremarkable industrial town 30 miles south of Milwaukee, but it has two
key Frank Lloyd Wright sights, both of which offer tours that must be prebooked. The
first, the Johnson Wax Company Administration Building ( 262-260-2154;
www.scjohnson.com/visit ; 1525 Howe St; Fri & Sat) , dates from 1939 and is a magni-
ficent space with tall, flared columns. There are three tour options, ranging from one