May 26, 2010 , we departed Baraboo, Wisconsin heading west. Crossing the Mississippi River we moved into Minnesota. We stopped in Austin, Mn. for lunch at Johnny’s Spamarama Restaurant
and then we went across the street to the Hormel Spam Museum.
In the late 1940’s through the early 1950’s Hormel Girls toured through the country as a drum corps, a chorus and an orchestra promoting Hormel products, mainly Spam. Going into a region the girls would fan out to go to the grocery stores in that region displaying Spam products and distributing coupons. Hormel sales had a great increase with these girls but the expenses became too great to continue. We continued on to Jackson, Mn. where we camped for the night.
Today the 27th, Thursday, we left Jackson, Mn. continued on westward into South Dakota. We stopped in Mitchell for lunch and to see the Corn Palace. The Corn Palace is decorated each year with various types and colors of corn according to a theme. This year’s theme was “Through the Ages”.
Moving on we stopped at a rest stop with a magnificent view prior to crossing the Missouri River.
We have traveled this route before but the view as the Missouri River comes into view is breath-taking each time. The winds were quite strong and increased as the day went on. We stopped in Belvidere for the night at a KOA. We were all feeling beat so we were happy that we could get dinner at the campground and not need to cook.
