Wisconsin-Bound

I fly the red-eye to Wisconsin on Monday night and arrive in Milwaukee to the greetings of Natalia and Wes. Sweet reunions, arrivals gates, good stuff. We go back to their apartment and I fall fast asleep. I spend the day acclimating, to the time difference, the weather, the cheese state. We all three have a great night hanging out with each other and in the morning I take the badger bus to Madison to work with the New Voters Project (www.newvotersproject.org), which is one of the best things I have ever participated in, thanks to incredible friendship with the hard working, skillful, optimistically cynical, and ever-inspiring mr. tulkin.

Many stories are born out of the following days. Some are highlighted in the following days' blogs, and some are to be retold only in person. I will share some of the quirks and experiences from Milwaukee to Madison to Milwaukee to Madison to Milwaukee... and back...