Friday, January 16, 2009

The Frozen North

Earlier this week, I had the privilege of traveling to rural southwestern Minnesota. Thanks to the quirks of our new GPS unit, I probably got to see more of rural Minnesota than I should have. I was on two-lane country roads for almost all of a three hour drive. Basically, it just looked like this . . .
. . . for miles and miles and miles. I saw more snowmobiles in one hour on Sunday afternoon than I've seen in my whole life. And this is what I look like after miles and miles of driving in Minnesota . . .
But I did discover that 920 AM is Minnesota's all polka station. Interesting.

Minnesota is very cold. In case you didn't know. I thought my ears were going to freeze off at one point. When your high temp for the day is still a negative number, that's cold. But then I came home to balmy Fort Wayne . . . where I discovered that Minnesota's weather had followed me home. Today's high in Fort Wayne: 2 degrees.

5 comments:

Cydil said...

Great post. Gotta love those GPS units. ;-) (I actually do, most of the time. Thankfully they can be muted).

Laura and Jamey said...

Do you really think the GPS was quirky? Did it send you back to Minneapolis a different way? Just curious.

Palmer said...

There's no doubt that the GPS was trying to get me lost. First, it kept trying to send me down back country roads, which undoubtedly would have eventually arrived at my destination but not nearly as quickly or safely. Second, sometime outside of the Twin Cities, it was showing me as driving around in some field rather than on the Interstate. Kind of disconcerting!

Nick King said...

Palmer - Daughter VERY cute! Norma and I LOVE to geochache. Done any of that?

Glad to find your blog. I have a couple projects I would like to get your feedback on (one done, one pending). See if you can find my longmire email address and send me a note. I will send you some materials to look at.

Nick King

Palmer said...

No geocaching here. Didn't even know it was a verb. Or a word for that matter.

Nick, I don't have your e-mail. But I'm not a candidate right now for you anyway due to my unexpected retirement in September. Maybe someday. I thought you left Longmire? My e-mail address is just my first name and last name at hotmail.