The temperatures have been consistently around 35 or 36. That is 97F. Hot but largely comfortable as we went further west - it is a "dry" heat. Oddly, it was incredibly humid in Winona, and then we found out that Winona has the warmest temperatures in all of Minnesota.
Wisconsin is pretty, rolling hills with lots of farms. Minnesota is similar, a little flatter but entirely farming (crops and wind). South Dakota is completely flat but also almost all farming, as far as the eye can see, to the horizon and beyond.
- Wisconsin is known for it's cheese (Green Bay Packer cheeseheads). There are signs/billboards everywhere advertising everything cheese. So how come we did not see a single dairy farm? All we saw was corn (more on that later).
- Wisconsin also likes their Adult "super"stores. These were in the middle of nowhere so who is the customer base?
- did you know Sparta, Wisconsin is the "Bicycling capital of North America". I didn't, but a billboard told me, so I Googled it. It's true, although there is a complete absence of reasoning as to why. By the way, the population of Sparta is 9,600.
- when in Sparta, you can visit the "Deke Slayton Space and Bicycle Museum"...Deke is from Sparta.
- Minnesota has invested heavily in wind farming. We kept running into massive wind farms that ran as far as the eye could see on both sides of the interstate.
- have you ever noticed that every regional airport, in the middle of nowhere, is an "International" airport?
- the main interstate we have been travelling on, I-90, is either asphalt or concrete depending on the state's preference. Concrete in Michigan, Minnesota and SD. Illinois and Wisconsin are asphalt.
- when they do road reconstruction, they don't fool around. If you are going to shut down and rip up one direction of highway, why not do it 100km at at time. I kid you not.
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