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The
Midas Wars: Episode 2 This
is part 2 of a three part series about the road trip I went on this summer.
Three college friends and I decided to partake in a road trip. The four
friends: Cap'n Mike, Dan the Band Man, The Rob and A Rob (me) were going to
drive 400 plus miles to our destination. What is our destination? The
World's Only Corn Palace.
Day 2
All four of us are packed into the
1975 Midas motor home ready to embark on our quest to The World's Only Corn
Palace. One problem…the weather isn't cooperating. Here we are about ready
to through a major metropolitan area (Minneapolis) in the Midas motor home
and it is raining. I don't mean a few sprinkles; I'm talking about a genuine
Midwest monsoon. I decide that even though I am the only one with experience
driving this rig, I'd rather have Dan drive since he knows the roads better.
All is going well until the window starts getting fogged up. I turn the
Defroster on and I am thinking that everything will be fine, it isn't. The
defrosters aren't working, they are turned up all the way, and we can barely
see out the windshield. I grab the miniature fan that was brought along to
serve as our A/C and I point it at the windshield. This works for awhile
until we realize that the defroster does indeed work if I would have
realized I need to pull out another lever in order to turn the fan on.
Now we must figure out the route we
are going to take in order to reach our destination. The Rob takes out his
Roadside Attractions book and we find all the interesting attractions in
Minnesota that could possibly be hit. We go off of the freeway and decide to
drive the whole way on country roads. I decide to take a little nap in one
of the beds in the motor home.
I awaken to sounds of shouts, doors
opening and people running out of the camper. Apparently we are in Darwin,
Minnesota, home of the World's Largest Ball of Twine. We run to the gazebo
that houses this legendary ball of twine. This beautiful ball of twine is
something to behold, made by one man too. After a trip to the gift store
where we all buy t-shirts and talk to a lady who tells us that Weird Al goes
here all the time, showing us a picture of the two of them in front of the
ball of twine. We are now full of energy having seen one of the great
wonders of the world and all climb back into the Midas motor home for our
trip to continue
Our next stop ends up being Granite
Falls, Minnesota. After getting lost a few times and asking locals 'where we
can find a big old rock' we finally are pointed to the home of The World's
Oldest Rock. That's right; apparently Granite Falls has the World's Oldest
Rock. Quite an amazing sight, behind a shed is this big old rock and a sign
that says it is indeed The World's Oldest Rock. A few of us need to sit down
and catch our breath after casting our eyes upon such an amazing formation.
After some uneventful driving we
finally arrive to our campground in Mitchell, SD, home of The World's Only
Corn Palace. I don't know if any of you have been to South Dakota but there
is something that is missing in that state, and that something are trees.
One of the promotional items of the campground we are staying in is that it
has 'shade'. Shade is more valuable than gold and oil in South Dakota. We
set up the camper, eat some hotdogs, watch some Emmanuelle 2000, and swim in
the 4 foot pool than finally go to bed. All of us have dreams about the next
day and our aspirations to finally see The World's Only Corn Palace.
To Be Continued |
