#8 Fairmont MN to Oakdale WI

#8  Fairmont MN to Oakdale WI

Minnesota  is corn country!  Nearly every field shows some stage of growing corn.

 Many fields have baby green sprouts poking out of the soil. 

Some fields look freshly plowed. Those with some water show rich looking dark soil.

 Other fields lie with the remnants of last year’s crop.

We stopped for fuel at a station surrounded with large farm equipment. This red trailer looked bigger than our RV. Photographing farm equipment in the mid-west is probably like visitors to the west coast photographing seagulls. LOL

West of Rochester wind farms abound.  The size of the wind mills continues to amaze me. It is hard to realize that one of the three rotors takes an extra-long trailer to move it down the highway.

Roads continue to be rough for travel.

We then began going down a fairly steep grade. The Mississippi River makes the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin.

We began crossing the Mississippi.  A long bridge takes you to French Island and then on to Wisconsin.

I missed the main Welcome to Wisconsin sign.

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More Mississippi

Wisconsin looks like the other states through which we have been traveling.

We stopped at the Oakdale, Wisconsin KOA. 

Since no eating places were near here we ate at home. Later Derrille and Jay took their nightly walk.  They were treated to a view of 5 deer and a rabbit!  Derrille appreciates our schedule where he can still walk and do his mat exercises each day.

Tomorrow:  Joliet, Illinois