A Late Start and a Long Drive

We were late getting underway on day four due to my shower. We made the decision to eat breakfast at the hotel and then hit the road at about 10:30. We had a long drive ahead of us. We were heading for Madison Wisconsin - a 750 km drive across Minnesota and Wisconsin before stopping for the night.

Although we crossed through both of these states on the way out, our track this time was farther south so it was just a bit different than before.Mother Nature was showing her full fall colours and the scenery was really beautiful!

One of the things you see a lot of, particularly in Wisconsin is billboards on the side of the road that are quite entertaining and we looked forward to reading them. Some said "Smile","Be Kind"and "Have a Nice Day" as well as "Release Your Inner Otter" I was so busy reading the signs that sometimes I forgot to take a picture of the,/ One in particular that I thought was clever was "Got Fiber? We Do!" from a company that sells Fiber Optic cable. we also saw a Water |tower painted with a smiley face.

Minneapolis was the largest city that we traveled through this day. Most of the large cities have a bi-pass or ring rod that takes you away from the main traffic in the city. | did manage to snao a picture of the sky line.

The last place we got gas had some wood carvings near the gas pumps. One was a bear, one was an eagle and the other was a very big Perch.

Someone once told me that our on the prairies that it was common to see Tractor trailers with 3 and 4 trailers being pulled by a single unit. In fact, we rarely saw any trucks pulling 2 trailers. We were driving in Minnesota when we saw a Fed Ex truck with 3 trailers. They were shorter trailers but there were 3 of them. This was a pretty common siting during the rest of our trip.