Dear Road Readers, Can you keep up with us? How does breakfast in Mankato, Minn, lunch in Floyd, Iowa, and dinner in Prairie du Chien, Wis sound? 3 meals in 3 different states kept us on the byways, through many amber waves of grain, and into so many quaint mid-western small towns. These towns all have several churches, a K-12 school, a gas station, bar, mortuary, and finally, a cemetery...all with a population of 597 or such. Mature trees line the residential road which is also Main St, and we see a small glimpse of a life style so different than ours. Green & yellow John Deere threshers are making intricate patterns through the fields. Clothes hanging out to dry and houses decorated with corn stocks (no shortage here) and pumpkins. Prairie du Chien is on
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