Goodbye Sioux Falls, Hello Rochester Minnesota!

Hello from Rochester, Minnesota, the home of the Mayo Clinic and the Econo Lodge on S. Broadway St.! We left Sioux Falls this morning after having a great breakfast with our friends Dennis and Lori Bell. Dennis and Lori live in Tea, South Dakota which is just outside Sioux Falls. I met Lori through Craigslist when I posted an ad asking someone to take some photographs of some property in South Dakota when we were looking for Nicole. Lori answered the ad and when we came to South Dakota the first time we met she and Dennis and we have been good friends ever since. They took us to a place called Marlins for breakfast, great place!
We left Sioux Falls on I-90 east and drove just a bit north of the Minnesota/Iowa border. Tonight we are in Rochester and we plan to go to Chicago tomorrow. We want to see Wrigley Field.
Our drive across Minnesota was beautiful. There were some fall colors already and the scenery was very nice. I must say though the roads were not as well maintained as we have seen in other states. The shoulders were weedy and the medians were a bit overgrown. Listen to me being so snobbish!
Another site on our drive today was miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and MILES of corn fields. You think we have a lot of grapevines in California? Well, you've never seen anything until you see these corn fields. Everywhere you look both sides of the road, just corn all around. I thought the corn was in Iowa. Well, I can tell you they have corn in Minnesota too!
Not too many pictures tonight, but we do have one of our friends Dennis and Lori that I will include.
Plan to see Chicago tomorrow but don't know where we will stay yet.
Felt good today to be on the road again.
Love to all
Wayne and Colleen