On Thursday, September 3, 2009, we left our hotel in Illinois and got on Route 90. We had only taken 80 so far so 90 was a new ballgame. We soon found ourselves in Wisconsin, the land of the cheese!
Now we typically try to pare down our cheese intake but when in Rome, dudes. So we started looking for a good place to get our cheese on and in DeForest, Wisconsin, we found our place: Ehlenbach’s Cheese Chalet.
We had a titty attack when we saw it and pulled off the road. This is what we found inside:
There were so many different kinds of fresh cheeses, crackers, bread, wines, homemade baked goods, souvenirs. It was so cute in there!
They even let you sample the goods. We tried one cheese that was chocolate fudge flavored. Damn that shit was good. We ended up buying some cheese and crackers and a coupla postcards. Ugh so good.
Then we went outside to take pictures of the giant cow they had outside. Love it.
I had terrible allergies for some reason that day. Oh and don’t worry the animals were in the car but we were only in the Chalet for a hot minute and the windows were rolled down. We kept running to check on them.

Kristyn definitely wanted a picture of the veins on the cow's udders. I think it was a good choice myself.
But I can’t say they were thrilled with our need for pictures of udders and ourselves.
Who could blame them? But the pictures were necessary methinks.
We got back in the car and set back off on our way, eating cheese and crackers until we couldn’t take it anymore. A coupla hours later, we stopped at a weird little rest stop that had this out front:
I guess because my allergies were bothering me, I started whining about wanting to get out of the car and take more pictures. It may seem like we’ve done a lot at this point but if you figure it took us eight hours to get to the other side of PA, eight more hours to get to Chicago and then about six hours to get to where we were in Wisconsin, that is twenty-two hours in the car with only a coupla lookyloo stops. I was bored, yo. So we stopped and took this picture:
And this one:
We were just going to drive a couple more hours and find a place to stop when we saw a sign that made us stop the car dead. We pulled up to this place:
We knocked on the door and were let inside by a nice man who introduced to:
That guy above is alive but I can’t say the same for these guys:
Cuz we found ourselves inside the a Taxidermy Studio!!!
To be continued…
1 – i still don’t understand why the giant cow *needed* to be so anatomically correct to have veiny utters. eek!
2 – is that a speaker in that giant cow’s mouth? did she moo!!!
3 – two vegetarians in a taxidermy studio. um. what???