Thursday, June 30th, 2005 From Mankato, we decided to head over to Wisconsin to visit another Little House site, so we took highway 14 to highway 60 east all the way to the Wisconsin border. We’ve never spent so much of a trip driving on non-Interstates, and we really enjoyed checking out all the small […]
After visiting the museum, we explored a couple other stores in Walnut Grove. This was made difficult by the already-discussed ripped up main road. While Carla and the girls visited one store, the boys and I stayed in the truck in air-conditioned comfort, parked in the back lane, and listened to some local radio, where […]
June 29th, 2005: We continued down highway 169 to St. Peter, then turned off onto highway 99, then highway 14 to New Ulm (what happened to Old Ulm?) and continued west through Sleepy Eye to Walnut Grove, of “Little House on the Prarie” fame. I really like driving these quiet highways in the US countryside. […]