KOA Campground, Maple Grove, MN

June 11. Yesterday’s drive started with 2 hours of detours, dead ends, back roads and aimless wandering.  Flooding and construction were the culprits.  We arrived in the Twin Cities much later than we’d hoped, missed having dinner with the siblings, and found the campground we’d selected to be full up.  Bummer of a day; weather sucked, too: overcast, chilly, sporadic drizzle/rain.
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Some interesting things we passed along the way:

1.  Buffalo Bill’s Ranch; North Platte, NE

2.  John Wayne’s birthplace; Winterset, IA; who’d a thunk the Duke was from IA?  Should have beenWyoming.

3.  Pottawattamie County, IA; great name, huh?

4.  Uncle Mike’s in Beebeetown, IA; don’t know what it was, just a name on a building for a business that once existed - but anything in Beebeetown’s gotta be good don’t you think?

5.  The Spam Museum, Austin, MN; it saddened us that we didn’t have time to stop in for a lard sandwich.  Want fries with that?

6.  The Bridges of Madison County, Madison County, IA; remember the schlock-gag me book and movie? Clint, to what depths hath thee fallen!  What happened to my squinty eyed hero of the spaghetti westerns?