Minnesota and Take a Left

[lhuff]

I'll post pictures in a few days. I've got to get the stupid throwaway cameras developed and put onto CD, though. I think I know what my birthday present to myself will be this year. Stupid Camera.

High Point = Crazy Horse - I can't describe the peace and serenity that place
gave me.

Low Point = Colorado - I'm really going to have to give that state another
shot some day. I loved Mesa Verde when I was there a few years ago. I'm not really sure what happened this year. Oh well.

Best Food = Toss up between the Mexican Restaurants I ate at in Raton, New Mexico and Eastland, Texas. Both were excellent.

Worst Food = Taco Bell in Arkansas - Fourth of July and none of the family run places were open, just fast food.

Best Side of Road Attraction = Albert the Bull - mainly because he was anatomically correct - yes I was the crazy
lady taking pictures of the bull's testicles on the side of the road in Iowa. It just really cracked me up for some reason - lack of sleep,
etc.

Worst Side of Road Attraction(s) = Jackeloupe in Douglas, Wyoming and the Jack Rabbit in Odessa, Texas. Only
because I forgot to go and look for them.

Total Miles of Trip = 4,100

Purchases = Many shot glasses and postcards and lots of random things for Intrepid Roadtrip Partner's new apartment. Let's just say that I had a blast buying stuff for her in Roswell.

Weirdest Sight = How green West Texas was. There were black-eyed Susans as tall as me growing on the sides of the road.

Best Sight = Toss up between Crazy Horse and seeing my first Shreveport Signs when I was coming home.

Worst Sight = "Road Construction Ahead" - blech and all the flooding in Missouri

[PNW Judy]

It's great to hear what Laura spots are worth seeing and which aren't.

Sounds like you had a great trip. You write a great trip report.

[MrsPete]

Started off with the highly anticipated visit to my first Laura Ingalls Wilder sight, her house in Mansfield, MO where she wrote all the Little House books.

Two big disappointments in the trip we're planning to take in July: I just couldn't work in one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder homes, nor could I fit in a chance for my kids to see the Redwoods.

You just can't fit everything into one trip.

[Rollin']

Two big disappointments in the trip we're planning to take in July: I just couldn't work in one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder homes, nor could I fit in a chance for my kids to see the Redwoods.

You just can't fit everything into one trip.

If you are ever near Pepin, Wisconsin they have a Laura Ingalls Wilder museum.
We were riding back from Red Wing, Minnesota along the Wisconsin side of the
Mississippi River and came across this.