i had some spare time this past week and decided to take a ride...i had never been in MN or ND before and they were saying the weather was supposed to be great up there (they weren't 100% correct lol) so i took off as soon as the rain broke and i could squeeze through...i crossed into MO from IL at St. Louis (should have taken a hint when my road was closed due to flooding but i just ignored it and continued on), rode up along the MS River into Iowa, crossed back over into WI, cut across MN into ND, rode down into SD, and meandered back home to IL...i didn't have a specific route in mind, just a couple things i wanted to see like the Black Angel, Kensington Runestone Museum, a two-tiered drinking fountain, and the gravesite of the oldest man to serve in the Civil War...i ended up doing 1650 miles with less than 100 being on the interstate, it was a great time in spite of the rain on Friday