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It was with great excitement that we explored the countryside of Fargo as my O'Hara ancestors settled here from Ireland. I do not understand why they chose this area. To be sure there is a great deal of farming but the land and weather would have been unrelenting and harsh.The land is created by a glacier and is wide and sloping with small glades of trees only where the farmhouses are so I think were planted there. Now that we are in Fargo, we will be turning ...

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 ...

... it bolted off like crazy, cool!

Roosevelt National Park is pretty amazing, it highlights the conservation efforts of President Roosevelt, his life story and even contains one of the cabins he lived in when he visited and hunted in North Dakota. Roosevelt was pretty much responsible for saving the Bison from extinction although when he first arrived in the area he was so worried ...

... the road, so it seems there is also a horse industry in the area. Today we crossed the Mississippi River in Brainerd, Minn. It was just about the same size as the Mississippi in Carleton Place. We also crossed the Red River coming into Fargo N.D. We saw three trains today loaded with coal headed east. On a giant billboard we saw the message "Be Grateful" and we are!

... from the west to northwest at around 20mph I'm guessing and there must have been frequent gusts up to 30+ mph. We took US-2 into Superior, WI and across the bay to West Duluth, MN and briefly took I-35 south then exited west onto US-2.

We had no more got started west from I-35 and there was this huge steam engine sitting in front of us in a park so I naturally had to pull into the parking lot and take lots of pictures. It had a caboose hooked on ...

We didn't actually leave Olathe until just before noon. We hit mile zero of I-29 coming out of downtown KC and just trucked up on to Omaha by late afternoon. We stopped at the Union Pacific Railroad Museum and spent about an hour looking a all kinds of historical stuff they had collected there. The guy at the desk told me there was a train simulator upstairs and I had to keep it on the tracks. Turns out it was actually just a bunch of TVs that played a video loop and a dummy control panel ...

What a day! I warn you now, this is an expression of my need to vent. After a day like today, I feel tired, my patience is worn thin, and being home sounds truly appealing. Today even started wrong. I knew I had a 12.5-hour bus ride ahead of me scheduled to leave Winnipeg at 7:45 a.m., so I tried to prepare all my things last night to get as much sleep as possible. I never get a very good night sleep before an early morning though, probably from ...

So I am snowed in right now and I thought it would be a good day to get my blogging started. I am doing one through Saint John's, but I thought I would get a little more freedom with my entries this way. I am getting really anxious to start traveling. I just can't believe that first semester is over and I am almost heading to South Africa, but I still have just under a month left before I leave. I think all of the excitement is coming ...

What a wonderful day we had today. We left Minneapolis early and drove a few hours to Fergus Falls, Minnesota where we were meeting Brittany, Leslie's friend. Brittany's boyfriend Andy's parents (I know, a very roundabout relationship) live in Fergus Falls and we went to their house for lunch. It was really nice to have a home-cooked meal and they were very ...