Hope's Travel Blog

Blue Mounds State Park is not easy to get to from the Twin Cities. It's in the south-west corner of the state. Thankfully, it's near I90, but it still takes you 4+ hours to get there. It was worth it though. Most of the park is prairie, which is something you don't see in the cities. They also have a lovely heard of bison, so you get a brief sense of what it might have been like long ago. Below is a picture above the cliffs of Sioux Quartzite that make up the "blue mounds" (see the web link for the reason behind calling the pink cliffs blue) and two members of the bison herd. There was a barbed wire fence separating us that I got my camera around for the photo.

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Here in the good old U.S.A. you can get everything drive through. You can get married, buy liquor, get coffee and food. But only in Luverne, MN can you stop by the wayside chapel to worship. While trying to worship, or get a picture of the place, a territorial bird dove at us. We were clearly intruding on it's space. So we peeked inside, snapped a few photos and were on our way. But such a curious little thing by the side of the road.

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New Ulm was really boring. We stopped by there on our way back from camping in SW Minnesota. I probably should have consulted a web site or two (such as www.newulm.com) before going, since I think we missed everything good. Except the Zen Franklib shown here.

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