And if you travel enough, you’ll eventually figure out that people everywhere talk funny. Every time I go back home, I realize how odd the people there sound, but then I realize that I still sound an awful lot like them. In fact, whenever I go home, my Wisconsin accent subconsciously comes out even stronger.

I think two years it the minimum before you start to notice it. That is, you have to live somewhere markedly different from where you’re “from” for two solid years before you start to really notice the accent of the people who grew up where you did.

As for the buildings…well, as I said, I only saw just a little bit of the isthmus. And remember, I’m a country boy at heart. To me, more than 2 floors is a tall building.

I didn’t know you were from Wisconsin. Whereabouts?

I prefer the garlic & dill cheese curds over the fried ones. Other things that Wisconsin has going for it: Sprecher Beer and especially Sprecher Root Beer; Cousins Subs; Oscar’s Frozen Custard (although some swear by Kopp’s); the world-famous Mt. Horeb Mustard Museum (not far from Madison, it wouldn’t have been far out of the way at all for Thib); Usinger’s Sausage, the finest money can buy (try the garlic summer, the natural casing wieners, or the onion brats); and of course, the Green Bay Packers.

Back to accents for a moment, the movie Fargo was the worse thing to ever happen to people with an upper-Midwest accent. Worse even than those SNL “Da Bearsss” guys.

Go Pack!