Okay, here's some pics of my ride. Bear in mind, things look better when the fields are planted and the leaves are fully grown, and my cheap camera doesn't help matters much.

I live in a fairly boring area of Wisconsin....go east, and you get to Lake Michigan. Go north, and you get into some serious forests. Go south, and you get the Kettle Morraine and Dells areas. (You can go west, but that's a bit boring, too...

This is the view from my driveway. It looks nicer in person.

Here's a typical farm scene....plains Texans get claustrophia in my state, because no matter where you look, there are trees and farms all around you.....

That's swell...

This is the little flooded woods I pass by.....in two months, it will probably be dry as a bone, and the news announcers will start worrying about how low the water table is again...

We love our trees in this state....often you will see a huge, lone elm or maple in the middle of a plowed field, and know that the farmers have plowed around it for generations. You can tell when a house is new because it doesn't have any big trees around it yet....

One of the more wooded areas of my route. This is where I saw my first deer while biking.

Cows! 'Cause it's Wisconsin.

Here's the view from the top of Cemetery Hill. You're looking at the side I roll down--the one time I tried to climb it from this direction, I threw a chain....

That's the Crystal Springs golf course to the right, where the cars are parked.

Like any farming area, there are plenty of old, derelict barns around. Some are just starting to fall apart like this one....it's very common, though, to see just the stone base left behind, looking like battlements, from a barn where the wooden upper is long gone. Or you may see nothing left but a solitary old stone silo, standing in the middle of nowhere, like a wizard's tower....

And here we are--lovely downtown Seymour!

Like most small towns these days, Seymour is full of empty storefronts, since the inhabitants tend to run to Green Bay or Appleton for anythign they want. The small towns of America are rapidly becoming suburbs of the cities, full of city commuters.

Let me show you the points of interest, apart from the truly excellent library....

Seymour is one of a handful of small American towns which claim to have invented the hamburger.

Let me tell you the legend of Hamburger Charlie:

There was an old guy named Charlie who used to make hamburgers in Seymour.

That's it.

Supposedly Hamburger Charlie invented the hamburger. Seymour was sued by one of the other towns who claim to have invented the hamburger, and Seymour won through having historical proof of having had hamburgers before the other town had proof. I've heard the trial was just a publicity stunt, though. However, Seymour HAS made the world's biggest hamburger, twice. We're in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Here's the Hamburger Museum, which they closed after the collector who loaned the museum all his hamburger memorabilia decided he wanted it back.

The railroad museum is open two Sundays a month, if the moon is full and the omens are right, and a naked angel has been recently seen spanking Julius Caesar with a cricket bat.

Actually, I'm told it is actually occasionally open. I've never seen it happen, though.

Still, it's a cute little building, made from an old railroad station right next to Nagel Park.

And for the piece de resistance, here, across the road from the railroad museum, is the Charlie Grill, on which the world-record breaking hamburger was cooked. Just behind the grill runs an abandoned railway line, which will shortly become a rail-trail from Green Bay to New London, one hopes.

That about wraps it up! Hope you've enjoyed your commute with me, and your virtual tour of Seymour!

Nice! Thanks for the virtual tour!

Cool pictures, Ink. I've lived in a number of small towns and your pictures make me a little homesick. Thanks.

Great insight.

My film is in being developed!

Those pictures take me back. I used to ride through southern Wisconsin as a teenager.

Great stuff, Inky ... thanks.

i need to move so i can have a better commute

Great tour Inky, thanks.

Some routes I ride look similar but the terrain is more "rolling".

I would love to ride in Wisconsin some day.

Thanks for sharing the pics it is nice to visualize your commute I must do the same. I have heard of your claim to fame on the Hamburger and being a gourmet I must do a pilgrimage there to see the birth place of the Hamburger



What I would really like to know is where you get your drinking water from and are you guys willing to share some?

Like I said, it's a particularly boring part of the state. But my $20 digital camera makes it look flatter than it really is...it sucked the roll out of the landscape and the spring out of the green, and left it looking flat and dessicated.

I was being unfair when I said it was boring to the west, too....there are forests there, and Rib Mountain and eventually the Mississippi bluffs.



In August, we usually have a Hamburger Festiival, with ketchup slides and the Bun Run other activities. You may want to drop by then.

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What I would really like to know is where you get your drinking water from and are you guys willing to share some?

Ahhhh, country well water, that pecular mixture of H2O, sulfur, unidentified black specks, rust and farm run-off.......and, for some people, occasional frogs.

Inkwolf, that was pretty cool! The funny thing is I live in the small town of " Seymour Indiana" almost dejavu to me.

Nice pics Inkwolf. I like your trees, and your old barns.

Anders