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The rest of the day was not much. We drove up the two-lane road

on the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi and then crossed the river
and drove back down the Minnesota side. We were on a low ridge

on both sides with 500-foot bluffs above us. The views were

occasionally good but a lot of the time we couldn’t see too much.
There were a few little towns along the way. Stockholm with a

population of 89 was one of them.

I did have a chance to meet a very nice young man named D.L.
Nazch. He was a redhead with a little gap between his front teeth

and a nice Midwestern twang in his voice. He was also a Wisconsin
Highway Patrolman. Once we got past the formalities of the

warning ticket for my doing 65 in a 55-mile an hour zone, we got

out the Wisconsin map and he helped us map out our route up to
Lake Pepin. Sweet fellow for not giving me a real ticket.

Lake Pepin is NOT a lake. It’s just a very wide place in the river – 23

miles long and 2 to 3 miles across. There are islands in the river all
along the way. Some are wide enough to have a causeway leading

to them so that a few homes can be built. Wonder what happens
to them when the river floods?

Early dinner at a local steak house buffet that will never compete
with or cause concern at Ruth Chris’ Steak House. Lois and Sharon

are off doing a monumental laundry. I’m getting the pictures
together and listening to news of the tragic Air France Concord

crash. All for tonight.

LACROSSE into MN, HARMONY, ADAMS, BLOOMING PRAIRIE,

OWATONNA, MINNEAPOLIS to MONTICELLO.

Wednesday - We left Lacrosse in a driving rainstorm. Last night

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