Day
71 – 7-21-15 Tuesday We departed the campground at 7:15AM and drove
a couple of miles and stopped at a McDonald's before getting on the
Interstate. We had breakfast and used their WiFi to get the Blog
caught up and take care of email. We got fuel at the station beside
McDonald's. When we started to get back on the Interstate we
discovered there was no on ramp from that side of the road and had to
drive about 13 miles through the country and through a business
district to get to the next on ramp. We saw a few of Minnesota's
10,000 lakes.
Our
route took us around St Paul and Minneapolis (which all run together)
on the beltway and about half the route was under construction. We
didn't have to stop but at one place where multiple lanes were
merging. The lanes were squeezed down and switching one way and then
the other to accommodate the construction so that made the driving a
little more tense. We made it through without too much stress and
without any scrapes and bruises. We
tried to be in the area between the morning and the noon rush hour
and that worked out because we went through there about 10:30AM.
The
landscape gradually changed from openness and kind of flat to woods
and rolling hills. We soon entered Wisconsin and began to see a few
dairy farms with tall feed silos and lots of corn and soybean fields.
We also saw a lot of signs advertising Cheese. We stopped at a rest
stop to have lunch and moved on to Madison Wisconsin where we stopped
for the night at Lake Farm Park Campground and checked in and set up
on site #1 – a pull through with 50amp electrical hookup. This is a
Dane County owned/operated park. It is a nice campground, free WiFi,
large spaces with gravel pad and grass, those on the back side are
under large shade trees (mostly are used by people in tents since
there is no electrical power to these sites), showers, dump station
and paved streets.
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| Our site # 1 |
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| Campground view |
Our
planned route for tomorrow would take us around Chicago Illinois but
decided to modify our route so we would not have to deal with all that
traffic.
As of today we have driven 10,303 miles on this trip and will drive a little over 1000 more before we get home in mid August.
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