Albert Lea, MN

	Dateline: The Badlands, SD, May 30 "I don't know why the call these the Bad Lands - they smell pretty good to me."
	Dateline: Wall Drug Store, Wall, SD, May 30 Photo Op. Wall Drug Store is the classic American success story: buy everything around you while the prices are down (the Great Depression) and load it with tourist crap - and stoooopid things to pose on.
	Dateline: Wall Drug Store, Wall, SD, May 30 I was forced into this. I swear.
	Dateline: Murdo, SD, May 30 Star Restaurant. Only open during the summer, they make pie using fresh blueberries. Ooooooooo....
	Dateline: Murdo, SD, May 30 So it's 3:30 in the men's room and 2:30 in the women's. No wonder I'm always late.
	Dateline: Welcome Center, MN, May 30 Gale winds topping at 50 mph force us to reconsider the whole camping thing tonight, although we figure we'll drive another hundred miles or so and see if the situation improves.
	Dateline: Albert Lea, MN, May 30 Weather stayed breezy, so we checked in to a motel. (Fun fact: Al Franken grew up in Albert Lea, MN.)
	Dateline: Albert Lea, MN, May 30 But they didn't take pets.
	Dateline: Albert Lea, MN, May 31 And their coffee was swill.
	Dateline: Albert Lea, MN, May 31 RoadPuppy gave 'em a piece of her mind.
	Dateline: Albert Lea, MN, May 31 I don't think so.
	Dateline: The Spam Museum, Austin, MN, May 31 KILLER MUSEUM!!! If you're ever in Austin, MN, you gotta go here!
	Dateline: The Spam Museum, Austin, MN, May 31 You can pose with Spammy...
	Dateline: The Spam Museum, Austin, MN, May 31 You can even dress up like a real Spam factory worker and pack Spam-shaped beanbags into cans and label 'em. (Nancy did one in 26 seconds.)
	Dateline: The Spam Museum, Austin, MN, May 31 You can even buy Spam merch, like this to-die-for snowglobe!!! Must...keep...credit...card...in ...pocket....
	Dateline: La Crosse, WI, May 31 Busted at the TacoBell. Three weeks of supporting local family restaurants ... we just snapped.
	Dateline: Tomah, WI, May 31 What might happen if Michael Graves designed a cheese shop. (The column of yellow and white on the entrance to the left is little cheese squares.)
	Dateline: Tomah, WI, May 31 What might happen if two North Carolina tourists walked into a Michael Gravesesque cheese shop and pulled out a flaming hot credit card.
	Dateline: Oshkosh, WI, May 31 Nancy went to the Target across the street, so I had to take my own photo, Becca-style, in front of the Kinko's.