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North America » United States » Minnesota » Austin June 2nd 2016

We traveled through Southern Minnesota on our way to Wisconsin to visit some friends of Bonnie. We stayed out in the country by Blooming Prairie north of Austin. Austin is the home of the Spam Museum which we visited and found more varieties of Spam than I ever expected. We also went up to Owatonna in a crazy rain storm to visit the Orphanage Museum. The Orphanage was at one time the 3rd largest in the US. In the 1938 it housed 500 children and had 100 staff. As I was walking through the museum, a man said to me, "Can you believe we walked in here and saw our grandfather in this picture right here?" His grandfather had been sent to the orphanage along with several siblings after his mother and two siblings had died ... read more
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North America » United States » Minnesota » Austin May 26th 2016

Geo: 43.6667, -92.9744Yes, yes, I can now officially confirm that I am months behind in my postings but apparently it's not all that easy to purchase a condo , make move arrangements, and wrestle with a number of other never-ending issues , all while continuing our North American road trip. I was tempted to pack it in but the noisy demand from our follower convinced me to try and catch up.And while I'm busy making confessions, I would also have to admit to the deep dark secret of liking spam (coffee, popcorn, and spam fuelled my moderately successful University campaign), so when the opportunity to visit the world's only Spam Museum (how can there be only one?) presented itself, we had to make the detour. Spam has to be the Twinkie of the meat world. DH ... read more
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North America » United States » Minnesota » Austin September 23rd 2012

Everytime we go to Hawaii, Peter eats SPAMĀ®. Apparently, it's a Hawaiian Staple. You can even order it at Burger King and McDonalds. They love it there. It's in "local" food - Peter eats it for breakfast in something called musubi...which is kinda like sushi, but with SPAM instead of raw fish... I haven't tried it... My imagination doesn't allow it... When Rich comes with us to Hawaii, he eats SPAM too (not sure what his habits are when he's not with us.) img=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NHliYx-I0H0/UE6fm7Q6T9I/AAAAAAAAANs/FqpF3KNHxm0/s320/Billboard.jpg leftSO, I thought it'd be REALLY funny to take them to the SPAM Museum, in Austin MN. (http://www.spam.com/spam-101/the-spam-museum,... read more
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North America » United States » Minnesota » Austin August 29th 2011

Here it is, the long awaited for............visit to the SPAM museum! I'll let the pix do the talking!! Oh yeah, we picked up some Wisconsin cheese and visited South Dakota and saw a palace made of corn! Also windmills galore! Way cool!!!... read more
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North America » United States » Minnesota » Austin May 21st 2011

So we were cruisin' with the camper all day long, until finally we were super duper tired. So we started looking for a campground to chill at for the night. Then we saw it. The Sign: Smokey Hollow Campground. So we decided to check it out...It was the most awesome campground we had ever seen. When we pulled up, the first thing we noticed was a mini beach. It was pretty awesome looking. The water was a very nice turquoise, and it was very warm (heated water system)! We did not end up swimming there because it was too cold outside; but if Mom & Dad had let us, I'm sure we would have, no matter what the weather was outside. We stayed there overnight, and the next morning we got to ride some really cool ... read more




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