Down the Mississippi River to the bridge in Prairie du Chien, stopping at Effigy Mounds National Monument and several of the US Army Corps of Engineers Lock & Dams that we don’t often visit.

Saint Peter and Le Sueur, Minnesota.

Northfield Minnesota and the campus of Carleton College.

Madison Lake, Cleveland, and Saint Peter, MN. Gustavus Adolphus College campus.

Zumbrota, Hastings, Red Wing and Wabasha, MN. Hudson and Prescott, WI.

Visits to a few small towns in Southeast, MN and Northeast, IA.

Wykoff, MN, Forestville State Park, Spring Grove, and Winona, MN

A ride along the Mississippi River stopping in New Albin & Lansing, IA; La Crosse, WI, and Whalen, MN.

A visit to the Lime Creek Nature Center in Mason City, Iowa.

The Mississippi River in the winter.

A fall trip to Hastings and Stillwater, MN and River Falls, WI.

A day touring some of the lakes nestled in the Black Hills.

A snowy Custer State Park and then on to Hot Springs, SD, and ending at Sylvan Lake.