Out and about.

Today I needed to drive a lady I meet through church, down to a city/town called Lacrosse as she had a DR Apt and will be coming back tomorrow ( somebody else will pick her up ) but anyways, its about a 2 hour drive south from my place. On the way down we climbed up some rolling hills and stopped at this scenic overlook. There is just something soothing to the soul when I see scenes like this.

Then we drove on and got back in the low lands ( Ha ha, it's really all low lands in Wisconsin!)And we saw a big sign about " pick your own apples " so we followed that sign and came to this place that had a corn maze for kids to go get lost in, a large pile of hay for the kids to play in and then a little county store that sold apples, their own honey, their own maple syrup, their own jam and their homemade fresh pressed apple cider. We didn't really have time to do our own picking so I bought a big bag ( the smallest one there!) of this year's crop of Honey Crisp! Man oh man are they good!

Then we drove on down to Lacrosse and I slowed down and kicked her out. OK OK ! I didn't really do that. I went inside with her and made sure that all was still a go and then left. I laid down some rubber when I peeled out! No I didn't do that either! What I did do was drive over the bridge into MN and drove Hwy 61 north and that takes you along side the Mississippi river, I pulled over and took this pic, Its amazing when you think that this river goes and goes all the way down south into the ocean.

OK, now this pic to the right is not the best pic ever but I wanted you all to see what the temp was! Eat your little cold, wet and rainy hearts out! Also note that around the light post there are pumpkins and fall decorations. They had that on all the lamp post and the town square had a bunch of hay bales and pumpkins all stacked around. Fall is a big thing here in Wisconsin. I didn't get a pic of that as there was a big old truck in the way. Also this town had diagonal parking on main street! How cool is that? This town was called Wabasha, this is where I crossed back over into Wisconsin and came back up to my place. It was about a 5 hours of driving all told, but I did some extra driving to go sight seeing. And maybe I got lost , not saying that I did, just maybe.