We do basically the same thing when we take a trip home in central IL. Even when we have to go to Madison for medical tests, we drive up Rt. 12 to Elkhorn, take I43 south to Beloit and get on I90 to Madison. It’s longer but less stop and go. So, you probably know, we don’t get many tour buses coming through here. Twin Lakes maybe gets a few when it comes time for Country Thunder. We don’t go to that, but we can sure hear it, even way over here. :-)
Is it the VA in Madison? I tied there as well, except I usually see my doctor at the clinic in Rockford. Haven’t been to the hospital in Madison in a year or more.
My parents are buried in Mound Prairie cemetery West of Twin Lakes on 104th St. So we get back once a year or so. Also have relatives living West of Burlington, just North of hwy 11 (NE of Spring Prairie).
I could see tour buses running along hwy 12, but there’s not much draw in the surrounding country (except Lake Geneva, of course). I doubt Twin Lakes gets many, they don’t have the resort structure they once had.