Today, we were scheduled to travel from Red Wing to Winona a distance of 64.5 +/- miles. The good news is that we made it and it was a wonderful ride. The bad news is that it took us 75 miles to get there. We have learned a valuable lesson today. When the Minnesota TOD says a road is closed ahead...............well you should believe them. In our case, we (mostly me and to a lessor degree David - Rex had no comment) said what the heck let's see what the problem is. Figured it was a bridge out and we could ford the stream and get to the other side. Well the bridge was out, and the Minnesota DOT was absolutely adamant that we could not cross even though we could see the other side, and could have walked across. Don't mess with DOT in Minnesota. Anyway we backtracked a few miles and went down a gravel road for a few miles. We did see some wonderful country. More corn and soy beans that you can imagine. The corn fields were as far as one could see. We made good time and are averaging 11 miles per hour. David is very excited as he has found his new favorite place........called Kwik Stop............they have great donuts and burgers and shakes............he says we are going to live on them for lunch every day. We are still working on logistics. We had a little tougher time getting a hotel room this evening as Winona is home to two small colleges and they are having freshman orientation and the first hotel was booked up. We did ok, and David got us a good deal. Most of the travel today was along relatively level roads so we made good time. Rex and I have told David we are going to do 80 miles tomorrow...............he smiled and said that sounder great.....Ha.
Pictures are going to follow as Sam and I are working on logistics.
Have fun. Cheers.
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