and so the road trip begins...

so today is the day i left minneapolis and hit the road...  first stop was aberdeen, south dakota to see my aunt robyn and my niece jimmi, who goes to school at presentation college.  yay jimmi!  and go saints!!

before leaving town, i downloaded the roadside america app - which wasn't free, but so far has been fun and worth it - to make sure i didn't miss any little oddities and quirky attractions along the way.  first stop, of course, was, the world's largest ball of twine in darwin, mn...

also saw a few other things that weren't listed in the app, but were still turn-the-car-around picture worthy... like this cadillac-ranch-carhenge wanna-be volkswagen..

and these awesome halloween hay bales.

got to aberdeen and had supper with jimmi and aunt robyn, then went and checked out jim's dorm/campus...  cruised around town and had to take a picture of the hitch-n-post because as a little (cow)girl, this was my favorite store in aberdeen...

we also spotted this "before i die" board
downtown so stopped to read and fill in...  i've seen these in minneapolis but never stopped.

our posts were as follows:

dawn:  buy an airstream and travel

aunt robyn:  go to hawaii

jim jam:  meet channing tatum

some of these were crazy, like "eat a dozen cupcakes, but only the frosting..." and the spelling on some was horrendous, but we figured it was due to the board being close to bars...








tomorrow it's off to eagle butte to pick up my nieces and then to rapid city to reunite w/ my lucy.