Friday, July 11, 2003

Day 51

Friday 7/11/03
We woke up to sunny skies. After a breakfast of pancakes and eggs, we left Orchard.
Today the landscape gradually changed from cattle ranches in western Iowa to lush fields of corn and soybeans in eastern Iowa and Minnesota.
At LeMars, Iowa, we serendipitously discovered the “Ice Cream Capitol of the World”. Simba likes ice cream but was sleeping at the time and consequently missed our brief stay. It is the home of Wells Blue Bunny. We toured the Ice Cream Museum and watched two short films about ice cream. Afterward, we had ice cream cones for lunch and continued on our way into Minnesota. Crossing Minnesota we soon began seeing more and more of the familiar red and white Wisconsin license plates. As we neared Wisconsin we made one more rest stop. Our little Scamp looked even smaller, parked among the big trucks.
We finally entered Wisconsin by crossing the Mississippi River at Lacrosse.


We gassed up and dry camped for our last night at a Wal-Mart in Onalaska, Wisconsin.
435 miles today; 9949 total

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