Americinn - Wadena, Mn

... American Historical Society has been working dililgently to turn this farm into an open air museum. The festival is the big event of the year and it featured entertainment, demonstrations, food, crafts and an antique tractor pull.

My paternal great-grandfather immigrated from Finland in the late 1800's. He settled in Joliet Illinois and worked in the steel industry. About as different from being a farmer in Minnesota as ...

... semis. I wish I would’ve had a radio. We could’ve had some real fun. LOL

I hit I-94 around midnight and finally got cell phone service back. Too bad it was too late to return any calls. I had already decided to drive until our next stop, my sister Heather’s in the Fargo-Moorhead area which is about 475 miles from the Farm we had just been at. I knew I ...

... he can not only say that he walked across the Misissippi but that he got his feet wet at the source of this mighty river. It's a good thing he had brought along a spare pair of shoes or it would have been an uncomfortable rest of the day.

Done at the headwaters we took the wilderness drive. We were planning on doing some hiking but our first venture out into the virgin woods was ...

... At any rate, it was here that Teddy Roosevelt came to live in a small cabin on his own ranch after the death of his wife. It is a remarkable story, his life here before becoming the 26th president and I am reading his biography now.The town has been restored and is a really neat western experience. The park itself called the Roosevelt national park is in two parts and the part we did was an hour long drive through badlands and beautiful ranchland where we ...

Good morning to all you followers. We made it to my sister Heather's house in Moorhead, MN. We drove all through the night and got here about 5am. It was good driving, all the girls slept. We drove over 500 miles over country roads from my Aunt's farm in Union Center, SD, where we left around 9pm and after a wonderful dinner and visit. More on that later. I just wanted to let you know we are safe and sound and not getting back into a car until tomorrow morning ...

... 8217;s ears may be getting sore, he hasn’t complained yet. All the worlds’ problems can be solved on a gigantic road trip with a great sound track. We are still loving the road trip and getting used to and thoroughly enjoying the responsibility of having no real responsibility and no plans.

Love and Peace to you all, the world problem solving, Bek and Jesse Train

Day 1 Today was a long day of sorts, we didn't leave home right away, in fact we didn't leave till early afternoon. I woke up at 6 am EDT to head into work to get all the loose strings tied up nice and neat in a bundle, then home to pack up my truck for the trip out west, after repacking it 3 times before I came up with a decent packing load (so stuff wouldn't fall out, or we wouldn't have to ...

Day 2 (September 1) it was an early start at 3 am, but it was cold in Glendive and it had started to rain(of course I was on the side of the picnic table that was getting wet) We stopped to fill up on gas and I sure was glad that the cleark was crazy just becuase she didn't look at me like I was a complete nutcase as I drug all ...

... available. nonetheless, as soon as my bike was off the roof and the passenger seat occupied, rain started pouring down. fortunately, it let up after 10 minutes. the upside of rain is that when it cleared, i saw the most amazing rainbows...though of course, my camera was in the van, and i couldn't take a picture. i had never witnessed either of these phenomena before, but i saw two concentric rainbows and then one rainbow that was distorted in the middle such that there ...

Trepidation is a word you probably don't see too often in blogs, but after doing another round of cleaning and checking my electrical system that is what I felt when I started the van up that morning. Living in the van, if it didn't move I was stuck and I was far from my home base ( I considered the van my current home) and as usual didn't have a lot of money to spend. Well it started but I knew there were problems ...