We spent Friday night in Grand Forks, ND and had dinner at a Culver's Restaurant. There seems to be Culver's all over the upper Midwest and they're a nice place to stop and eat if you're on the run.... fast food with table service, immaculately clean and a huge menu.
We left on Saturday morning headed east on Rt 2 and crossed a small bridge over The Red River of the North into Minnesota. Lunch in Duluth was our next stop. With the Labor Day traffic Rt 2 moved really slow through the small towns and we decided to give up on our idea of crossing the Upper Peninsula and Mackinac Bridge.
We had lunch at another Culver's in Duluth then turned south on Rt 53 in Minnesota towards Eau Claire Wisconsin. From there we hopped Rt 94 to Madison.
We had a little trouble finding a room in Madison, I never gave a thought that it could be the season opening home game for the Wisconsin Badgers football team. We got lucky with a Clarion Hotel close to the main highway after an unplanned tour of the downtown Capitol area.
After breakfast we drove southeast around busy Chicago and into turnpike land. We crossed Indiana & Ohio and stopped for some dinner and gas in Youngstown. It was about 6 pm, too early to quit for the day so we continued on into Pennsylvania; roads moved well on Sunday night of Labor Day weekend. We decided not to stop and were home by midnight.
After a warm Toby greeting I was ready for sleep, with one last day of the holiday weekend to wake up and enjoy at home.
I'll have one more post to wrap up for this trip. Jim & I were both very happy with our driving adventure and spending time with our Scot relatives made the Canadian Rockies so much more fun.
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