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In this blog you can read a complete record of the visits we have made to The United States since march 2007.
Each of our trips has its own blog site Blog site. However we have now brought them all together onto our main Blog Page.
Our last trip, with a current name: Road Blog Spring 2013 is now complete.


Thursday, June 11, 2015

Lake Wobegon Days

Garrison Keillor never says where Lake Wobegon is, though gives many indications of its nature as the stereotypical small town lost somewhere in the middle of Minnesota. Well we have being staying in what must by the stereotype of Lake Wobegon. We have been camped in Sauk Centre County Park (pr. Sock).
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We are beside the lake, everyone goes fishing, it is a hundred yards from the wide 'Original Main Street' (as it has on the street signs). It has one stop light. it has gentle parks with lots of green grass around, as well as a number of small coffee shops, well frequented by the local ladies. It is indefinable in it's Lake Wobegon-ness, but this really is the place, it just exudes a quiet gentleness which you just know overlies all those small town politics.
As well as being a really nice place the people at the campground were really nice and we have had a lovely couple of days here.
We have also had some nice weather, with lovely sunsets and sunrises, so got some nice pics to show.
We met another English cyclist, this time with a conventional bicycle, he had cycled from vancouver since the start of May - about 60 miles per day. Nice chap, ex primary Head from Gloucester.
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