Best Western Minneapolis

3 friends on a mission to see the best of the western United States in 1 month.

... ; Beforehand, I had dinner with two friends involved with SABR.  They gave me a quick tour of downtown and uptown Minneapolis.  See photos. I will be leaving again this week for Independence, Missouri, where I will be speaking and signing books ...

... , willows, and cedars, rather than several kinds of maples as was true further east and south. Deann's house is in Minneapolis, in a neighborhood of small cottage types of houses that appear to have been built in the 1940s mostly. The ground slopes so ...

... the neighboring campgrounds where we took photos with a giant orange moose. Definitely, hick-town, WI. 9:50pm. Minneapolis, MN. Best Western Normandy. (AKA Roach Motel) We cross the beautiful Mississppi River and enter Minneapolis, MN!!! ...

... hear everything outside the hotel, other rooms, hallways. Best Internet Service: Mystic Lake Casino Resort, Prior Lakes/Minneapolis, Minnesota AND Best Western Medicine Hat, Alberta. High speed wireless - fast, easy to connect. Mystic Lake didn't use a ...

... ’s which we had also found online a couple weeks ahead of our trip. It is located in the same complex as the Best Western High Country. Our meals consisted of strawberry waffles for my parents and a huge cinnamon roll for me. The roll was the size ...

... organizationally. Appropriate. The city itself was rather nice, at least from what we observed taking the back route to our hotel in Minneapolis.  This section of our trip was our "modern culture" time, so we are taking our fill. Last night we ...

... park and the food was excellent. Unfortunately, we were a little rushed to make a 7:30pm show at the 'Comedy Club.' It wasn't the best show, but there were some highlights. We were expecting 'stand-up,' but it was more like SNL skits. We were just glad ...

... 't a bad thing when the boys talked me into taking them to see "Transformers." Of course, they loved it. Keegan said it was "the best movie I've ever seen!" I don't know about that, but it was pretty good. After the Mall, we went over to Dan and Deb's ...

... quite over as we drunk the night away until the early hours and then in a puff of smoke I was gone and on a plane to Minneapolis.  The Green Tortoise bus may have ridden off into the sunset without me but in spirit it would always be there.  Go ...

... diners clapping for her while she performed interpretive dance to some pounding sound track. The next day, we traveled to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden on the outskirts of town, famous for the sculpture of an enormous cherry balanced on a massive ...

... have to use a computer lab for internet, but I'm getting ahead of myself. So we left beloved America at 5:05pm from Minneapolis. However, we didn't actually take off until somewhere just after 6pm, something with adhesive junk on the plane's wing. Like ...

... her clothes, she wanted her souvenirs!! I was able to sleep on the 12 hour flight to Amsterdam, however, the flight to Minneapolis was impossible. I watched 3 movies and sat there thinking, "I just spent 5 and a half weeks in SOUTH AFRICA.. and it's ...

... East to West and North to South with rainforest as some people I know seem to have assumed; the people have long worn Western secondhand clothes and the rainforest has continued to get relentlessly cut down for 100 years now. Big countries and corrupt big ...

... and then all together with a little cream and maple syrup, warm and gooey:) I tried to replicate the porriage at Hell's Kitchen downtown minneapolis - it was actually pretty close. (by the way, if you have not been there yet - go right now and get a bowl ...

Pictures speak a thousand words. So I will let them speak for me on what we explored today. Put a lot in one day, 71/2 hours driving to get here and then getting our room and then back out to the Mall of America and back to our room to let you all know ...

... A thundershower we passed through left a grand double rainbow in its wake, which we dually admired. After a night at a pleasant roadside Best Western, we were ready for our first National Park. We entered the Badlands first thing in the morning to get a ...

... spent in lodging establishments: 18  Worst lodging establishment: Days Inn, Murdo, SD Most comfortable hotel bed: the pricey Best Western, Dickinson, ND (oil tycoons must demand comfy beds?) Most nights stayed in: South Dakota No nights stayed in: ...