Minnesota has not lived up to its hype. (We invented the hype.) It is long and flat and green, with many silos. The state's lone positive feature is its NPR - we do a good 6 hours of Morning Edition, Fresh Air with Terry Sucks, and Talk of the Nation Science Friday.
At least the Mississippi river is fun - we see the first real geography in several days: impressive sandstone cliffs running down to the water.
Crossing into Wisconsin, we discover that Keith had to drive to Chicago and is stuck in epic traffic. We go to the Wisconsin Dells outlets and Tash purchases an entire outfit while Nat equivocates about whether to have ice cream, mini golf, both, or none.
The decision is made to get back on the road and we wash up in Madison around 4. Keith is still in traffic somewhere in Illinois so we shop up and down State Street, finding several more outfits for Tash and sweet $5 aviators for Nat.
As we settle in with Cosi lattes, we finally get the call from Keith that he's back in town, so we meet up for some Ethiopian food and reminiscing. We drive about Madison for several hours, taking out cat litter, visiting a lab with a freezer full of dead horses, and eventually going climbing at the Madison Gym.
A word about this last item - Keith is a routesetter so has keys for after-hours access. Climbing in the middle of the night at a gym with no one else there is an excellent thing and cannot be highly enough reccommended. Nat also learns some basic principles of routesetting and sets a sweet V3.
After a midwestern wheat ale at a local bar, we collapse on the futon at 230am. This is the latest we've been up in months.
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Hey...Minnesota also has Al Franken!
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