We awoke to a sunny, hot day in DeForest, Wisconsin. Today we would travel to the farthest point west in our journey: Minneapolis-St. Paul. After breakfast, we again packed up and headed northwest through Wisconsin. This part of the trip rivaled the Pa. turnpike for scenery -- read "boring." Today's death march involved a second day of Luna bars for lunch...and here's Nancy eating one as she drives along. It's really hard to find nutritious food on the road, but I'm on a Luna bar strike right now!! Of course, tomorrow we'll be in Minnesota, land of varied restaurant choices and food trucks galore, but at about 1PM CDT today, I could have used more than water and a Luna bar! But the real truth is that they are tasty and nutritious, and the alternative was something questionably edible out of a vending machine. AND we did have Bob's wonderful gorp!
Here's some of the awesome scenery in Wisconsin -- zzzz, zzzz.
We drove through some rain showers and also came to a dead stop about 16 miles from the
Wisconsin/Minnesota border: apparently, there was an accident about 6 miles down the road. Took us 15 minutes to go about 2 miles -- grrr. Finally, we made it to Allison's house at about 3PM. I took the house tour, and Allison was gracious enough to let us use her washing machine. She took us on a driving tour of greater St. Paul and showed us the course she'd been on that morning for an inline skating race - very impressive. St. Paul is a lovely city, and today was absolutely gorgeous: no humidity, temperature in the upper 70's, and a light wind.
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| View of St. Paul's Cathedral out our hotel window |
We stopped by the Mississippi River and chilled for a while before dinner.
Drinks were on the rooftop of a restaurant attached to our hotel where we enjoyed the sun (not hot) and a cool breeze. Dinner was at Axel's Bonfire in St. Paul. Allison's friend Josh met us for dinner, and we had a great meal and lots of laughs.
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