MINNESOTA trip
Sep. 2-7 2024
PART 1
Stand at ease, troops! It's a tough world out there, and you might not be here tomorrow! Our assignment today is this fact-finding mission to Minnesota and surrounding states. March on!
On I-74/465 in Indianapolis, we see that I-69 has been completed here from points southwest. Though widely opposed on environmental grounds, this was a new freeway link to Evansville - in case you wanted to see the floods that had plagued that area in the preceding weeks.
Does it play in Peoria? Peoria, Ill., is a standard on northwesterly trips, and this is a view of the city from I-74.
IL 40 in East Peoria.
This sign for the Ronald Reagan Trail has a profile of ol' Ronnie - and it's faded, much as our dreams did under his reign.
West on Skyline Road south of Dubuque, Iowa.
Skyline Road becomes Monastery Road.
Does it play in Peosta? This is a roundabout on Sundown Road.
Old US 20.
Graf Road.
Girl Scout Road at Millville Road.
US 52 near Guttenberg. Deep in the background is the Mississippi River and Wisconsin.
US 52 again.
North on CR X56.
CR X56 again.
From an overlook at Pikes Peak State Park, this is looking across the Mississippi to Wisconsin, about where the Wisconsin River flows into the Mississippi. I think the bridge is a rail span over the Wisconsin River.
Looking up the Mississippi. I think the bridge is for US 18 - not the main Marquette-Joliet Bridge but the one that crosses east of the island.
The Blue Bunker conquers Pikes Peak State Park! This park near McGregor, Iowa, overlooks the Mississippi River. The woods in the background even appear to be on a bluff. The magic number for this trip was 51. I was 51, we were briefly on US 51, I got home 51 days after I turned 51, and this was campsite #51 - as in Area 51.
Fog menaces the world in McGregor. This road was IA 340 until 2003.
This might be D Street.
Church Street.
Judging by its condition, I thought the Biz US 18 assembly had to be left over from when the road here was IA 340, but apparently not.
This is C Street (as in "C Is For Cookie").
Probably C Street again.
This may be where C Street trails off into Point Anne Lane.