Pit stops, Detours and Tourist Traps

[Jus Say Ventura]

Listen Ring drool, if you don't stop in Blue Earth, Minn on I-90 and check out the one man I always wanted to double up with in Team Wrestling - The 60' tall Hulk- you're gonna be playa dust when I get though with you. Though back he didn't use the name Hulk cause most Minnesotans are simple minded farmers and just couldn't connect with a green guy that was made from Gamma Rays and Jelly Fish and went by the name of the "Jolly Green Giant!"

While in Rapid City, SD stop at the "Cosmos of The Black Hills" on your way to see desecraton and symbol known to all indians as "We been fucked by the Great White Fathers as they have fucked our sacred Black Hills", Mt Rushmore". The Museum of Geology in Rapid City has a great collection of Cinozoic Mammals found in Badlands NP- which of course you should at least drive though it, Meat Head. An over-nighter into the Sage Wilderness area of the Badlands is a walk into one of the best Cinozoic period (Ogilocene Epoch) Graveyards. Here you will find bones of the earliest mammals including felines, horses and sea turtles.

Let me know what you find in the Cosmos in the Black Hills or I'll slam you down on the Playa. I'll be the bald guy with the Yellow Boas!

[jmdinn]

Austin Minnesota: [i]The Spam Museum[/i]

Also to be found on I-90 in the Minnesota/South Dakota regions:
[i]The Corn Palace[/i]
and a four story statue of [i]The Jolly Green Giant[/i]

And if you go through South Dakota and don't see the Badlands, you missed [i]everything[/i]. Rushmore is LAME in comparison.

If you can, swing through Yellowstone. I was there on a rainy, foggy, snowy September day and the beauty was [i]stunning[/i].

If you're an outdoors-y kind of person (w/redneck tendancies): Cabelas is a wonderland not to be missed.

If you're an animal activist kind of person: Cabelas is a horror show not to be missed.