Crossing the Mississippi

We left Fond du Lac driving on newly constructed roads that were not in the GPS, so the GPS got lost....NOT US, it was the GPS. After numerous "recalculating" attempts, it turned itself off in frustration.

We went south on 151 to Madison and then on route 60, followed the Wisconsin River round numerous bends to the Mississippi.

We then went north along the Mississippi on route 35, stopping for lunch at one of the locks where we saw a loooonnggg barge pass through, long enough to have had to be split in two parts to get through. We crossed the Miss. River at Lansing where Bev felt the need to lift some weights (see photo below).

We continued north on the Iowa/Minnesota side of the river to route 16 and then headed west.The south east corner of Minnesota is very hilly and has great twisty roads. After a long day we stopped to camp at a municipal park in Lanesboro within walking distance of the local saloon.........yeah, it was hot and the beer was cold.