This was definitely not a meandering day. I need to be in Mt. Shasta, California by Thursday evening, and I have four days to do it. I chewed up a lot of miles today, almost all of it on interstates. The speed limit was 70 across most of Minnesota and hit 75 in North Dakota. I tried to keep in in the 70 to 72 range to get better mileage, but when EVERY vehicle on the road, including tractor trailers, passed you, it gets discouraging. I eventually gave up and set the cruise at 75, and then only most of the vehicles passed me. :-)
Traveling the Interstate Highway System gives you a very distorted view of the country side. All of the motels, gas stations, and bill boards are so generic. What little farming I could see involved fields of corn, sunflowers, milo, and wheat. I saw some sweet corn being mechanically being picked in Wisconsin (but that was on a two lane road) and some wheat stubble being tilled by huge tractors in North Dakota. I really miss the view from the two lane roads that I spent so much time on last year. But then again, as I said in my first post, this trip was less about wandering and more about getting from point A to point B, and the interstate highways allow you to do that in a hurry.
Tuesday Zoey and I head to Livingston, Montana..........
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