The monotony of the trip across South Dakota was broken only by miles of advertising for and a stop at the famous Wall Drug. Thanks to Dave and Vonja's suggestion to visit the "biggest tourist trap in the US," we enjoyed our visit there and partook of their famous free ice water, 5-cent coffee, and donuts. And oops--how did those $70 jeans find their way into my shopping bag?
After stopping for the night at the border of SD, we zipped across Minnesota the next day. The remarkable thing about that state, other than the rolling hills and impressive farmland was all the alternative energy sources we could see, especially the wind farms. Those Minnesotans look like they have it all over the rest of us in that respect. Good for them!!!!
On Wednesday, I got my first view of the Mississippi River, and in fact we stayed at a pretty campground right on the river that night in LaCrosse, WI. What a nice little college town. Obama was campaigning there Thursday morning, and as much as I would have liked to drop by and say hello, we found a way to avoid all the traffic and hit the road again on our way to northern Wisconsin and Door County. Wisconsin is fantastically beautiful and so CLEAN!!! We passed hundreds of dairy farms and didn't see one junk car parked beside a barn! The fall leaves are coming on strong, and we're seeing a state I think I could be happy living in. Of course, the winter snows could change my mind on that, but we'll be long gone by then.
Friday, Tip will pick up his brother, Mike, at the Green Bay airport, and our friends Tim and Loretta will be driving up the next day from west of Chicago for our week-long stay in Door County and the visit to Bjorklunden, which was the original reason we started thinking about making this whole trip.
By the way, I'm sorry I can't figure out how to put the pictures next to the related text as I write the blog, and I can't even rearrange them so they're in some kind of chronological order. You may have noticed, in fact, that the pictures are completely in the opposite order of what I'm talking about. Pretty frustrating!
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