Travel Guide to Madison, WI

 Many travel guides, including the Midwest Travel Guide I picked up, are filled with lists of things you need to do in the place, either eat or check out or even stay. What they don't tell you are the things you may want to know about a city, the things you pick up only from being there for a while. With all the experience of one week, I can now bring you a travel guide to Madison with the following helpful information:

1. The entire town is a speed trap.
2. You can get a free cup of chai at Little Tibet on Johnson St. (I do plan to order actual food from them at some point, but I happened to go in and it was takeout only but they had a chai stand!)
3. A nice morning walk is to grab a latte at Cargo Coffee and then go down to the lakefront path at James Madison Park.
4. Kwik Trip is a way to get gas, and also a way of life.
5. Madison is not large; don't expect too much.
6. The trails in this city are fantastic and not just for bicycling: they make for a highly pleasant walk in summer, with wildflowers (and domestic flowers in people's yards) everywhere!
7. Go downtown on a Sunday afternoon in the summer when it's nice and quiet. You can go to Monona Terrace and chillax.