On the way to Big Stone Lake

Well, we are in Litchfield, MN and we have been on the road for 58 miles – still about 70 miles to go.  So far so good.  Marcus is sleeping, but that took a bit.  We are hopeful he will be out for the rest of the outbound drive.  I am hoping to do a final blog where I actually show the crazy map of where we drove today!

We have big plans for the day to hit between 4 to 5 state parks starting with Big Stone Lake, which is the headwaters of the Minnesota River.

We drove by the headwaters of the Minnesota River in Ortonville, MN.  The water here was clean and not too muddy: not my experience of the Minnesota River.  Guess it picks up the mud later.  Here is the dam where the river leaves Big Stone Lake right by the South Dakota border. 

Also, since we were so close to the border we decided to drive across the South Dakota state line... this makes the 13th state for Marcus!

Here is a video of the trip out!  The quality isn't the best, so you can't really see all the steam rising off the fields from the sun melting the snow.  For a long part of the drive we felt like we were driving through clouds in the western part of Minnesota.