Day 4 - Another aggressive drive planned for the day. Mitchell, SD to Gurnee, IL is another 10 hour drive. No big plans for the day. Stopping at Corn Palace which I have no idea what it is...one of my DSMs (for those of you who don't know, that's a District Sales Manager) mentioned we should stop there since our hotel is 1 mile away from it. And then we're gonna stop at the site where the Jolly Green Giant was founded to witness what a 60' Jolly Green Giant statue looks like.
Ok...Corn Palace - a place once can't really describe. Its basically a Movie theater, High School Gym, Flea Market that looks like something out of the Red Square in Russia - but everything, all the pictures, decorations, stucco is made out of corn cobs. (Did you know there are 12 different colors of corn)! This place is the highlight of the town and is the MOST corny (no pun intended) place I've ever been. Don't know what would be better...this place or the largest ball of twine!
After Corn Palace we hit the road again to discover that the landmark statue of the Jolly Green Giant was only about 1 mile off the Interstate in Blue Earth, Minnesota. Ok...so the second most corniest place of the trip! Have no words to say about this....you just have to look at the picture below!
So after spending 2 minutes looking at the biggest, green statue we hit the road again. While looking at the map, Loren discovered that the birthplace of her husband Rick was literally 10 miles off the freeway...so we planned another stop to Spirit Lake, Iowa. We stopped and drove thru the town, went to the Wal-Mart in Iowa and continued the drive to Illionois.
After crossing the Mississippi River (very cool) we continued straight thru til we reached Loren's home. A welcome sight for us weary travelers. Had an excellent, much need good night sleep....
More to come....
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