Last day of travel Iowa to Manitoba, Canada

8 am Iowa 22C
Mt Pleasant, Iowa to Boissevain, MB Canada
865 miles, approx. 13 hours driving time

Lots of painted quilts on barns!  So fun!
Holland, IA 14.497 @ $3.449 $50
pink skittles
Construction on the #218 so we took some side roads #20, #14, #8

We're seeing many little to large country farms.  Their rhubarb is already going to seed, ours isn't even popping up yet!

We noticed the thinning of traffic as we headed back north towards Canada.  The land is looking more "familiar" to us as it is has more farming.

Mei bought "Funyons" with great buyers remorse.  Then she saw some "Flamin' Hot Funyans!"  When we arrived back home, our friend from California told us how she had adored Funyans when she was a teen.  They were not our thing, but the chickens seemed to tolerate them.  Next time we'll stick with the gums, chocolate bars, cereal or sweet tea.

They still have very nice tourists stops, and we sure appreciated that while we were travelling.  So nice to get a bit a feel for a state when you are literally breezing through.

Iowa Pig Poop ?

Minneapolis.  Opened our bottle of "sweet tea"  All in favor. YUM!  We'll buy some more of that next time.

Of course I'm looking at the quilts!

Beautiful tourist booth, rest area for our picnic

We did notice some lack of landscaping around houses?

 Then we're getting more northern and the rest stops along the highway make you a little scared...

We're almost home, it's getting colder and less populated.  Colder, less traffic and we know we're almost home when we start seeing Bison Transport Semi's with Manitoba license plates.

I drove while Gregg got some sleep. Gas stations in Dunseith, ND were closed, so good that we had enough fuel to get home.  Reached the Peace Garden International Border Crossing at midnight.  We had all our receipts in hand, all written down and added up and categorized for them.  They asked the typical questions "How long", "where", "drugs", "alcohol", "weapons".  $847.93 declarable goods, plus the girls little purchases. We were waved through and arrived just after midnight to my folks near Boissevain, MB.  Ahhh sweet sleep!

A whirl wind trip and we arrived home to the grass just starting to get green and "the first hot days we've had".  Guess we hadn't missed anything while we were sunning ourselves in 30C weather :)  YEAH!

Girls are already plotting how to go back again next year.  So we told them, well, if you save up your portion of the costs, we'll go again.
**** Note to self **** Be careful what you promise, it looks like you'll have to come true on it!  Girls worked in the summer at a few different jobs and saved up their portion for the trip!  Now I'm scrambling to sell some more aprons, hats, etc to make up my portion :)

DISNEY WORLD 2015 trip is in the works! Stay tuned! May 1-15