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From Home to Alexandria, MN

September 3, 2013 By sheilab 2 Comments

Rendezvous

Our first glimpse of Larry and Linda at our rendezvous location on Cty K south of Turtle Lake.

What a great day!  We met up with Larry and Linda, went over our back road route to Grantsburg and off we went.

I have to admit to wondering how I was going to spend the time as we crept along at 40mph but navigating is a full time job. And when I wasn’t tracking our route, I was thoroughly engaged in watching the scenery. Traveling slowly allows you the time to really see what you are driving by.

We made two stops en route. The first was at a wayside rest in Governor Knowles State Forrest to go over our route to Alexandria. The second was a dirt road tailgate lunch west of Ogilvie.

We were intrigued by rock corner markers  in Benton county MN. A cylinder of woven wire fencing  about 4 or 5 feet high and 4 feet in diameter filled with field-stone rocks.

We arrived at Dennis and Barb Angland’s home, Sheila’s brother and sister-in-law,  near Alexandria, MN at 3:55pm having traveled 249 miles. Barb had snacks and refreshments ready, the table was set and we enjoyed a wonderful end-of-summer feast. Sheila’s nephew Bean, wife  Tina and kids stopped in to visit too.

After dinner we brought the cars to show to the men’s club at Dennis’ church.  The men were very interested,  had lots of questions and shared their own tales of cars. It was hard for Dennis to gather them back in for their meeting.

Then it was back to their house for some conversation and a good night’s sleep.

Click for larger images:

It was foggy when we started out and difficult to keep the windshield clear.
It was foggy when we started out and difficult to keep the windshield clear.
Planning the route to Grantsburg.
Planning the route to Grantsburg.
Checking things over at a rest stop.
Checking things over at a rest stop.
Corner fence posts of rock in northern Benton Cty, MN
Field stone corner markers in Benton County MN.

 

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Comments

  1. Charley Hover says

    September 13, 2013 at 10:11 pm

    Hi Linda and Larry. Sounds like your having a trip of a lifetime.

    Reply
  2. Charley Hover says

    September 14, 2013 at 8:41 am

    Hi Linda and Larry (you too Sheila and merv). What an adventure.

    Reply

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