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A Memorial Day Road Trip

Filed under: Photography, Travel — Kristi at 4:16 pm on Thursday, May 28, 2009

My Memorial Day Road Trip Mosaic

I do not think I mentioned over here, but I am in Minnesota for a visit at my parents’ farm. It had been over a year since I had last been home. On Memorial Day my sister and I got up and out the door by 4am to go to an area state park and get photos of the sunrise. When we arrived, the park was gated. We decided to make the most of our situation and go get breakfast a great greasy spoon truck stop nearby only to find out they did not open until 6am. So, we turned around and headed back into town to breakfast at Perkins to waste some time before heading out to tour the areas to the northwest of us.

We stopped at Swift Falls County Park, Glacier Lakes State Park, Historic Terrace Mill and ended at Sibley State Park and crashed back at home around 1:30 after stopping at the greasy spoon for lunch and phenomenal pie. The highlights of our photocentric roadtrip are in the mosaic above. You can check them all out, plus a few, on Flickr.

We’re going to camp (and I use that term loosely) at Sibley on Friday night in hopes of catching a colorful sunset and sunrise, so positive vibes of such sent our direction are greatly appreciated :-)

9 Comments »

Comment by Kim

May 28, 2009 @ 9:49 pm

Wow…your photography skills are getting better and better! Nice pictures!

Comment by Jennifer

May 29, 2009 @ 3:39 am

Ooh - I love the pictures. Looks and sounds like a great visit. Have fun “camping” tonight. Heck - cabins, tents or under the stars - if you have a sleeping bag - it counts as camping.

Comment by cyndy

May 29, 2009 @ 6:38 am

Those greasy spoon’s always have the best pies :-)

You could make a calendar for Minnesota! Your photos are lovely…(postcards too!)

Comment by Chris

May 29, 2009 @ 8:21 am

Pretty pictures!

Comment by Stephanie

May 29, 2009 @ 12:07 pm

Awesome pictures! I really need to sell some stash so I can buy that new camera. Have fun with the family.

Comment by mrspao

May 30, 2009 @ 12:00 am

How beautiful!

Comment by Amanda

June 1, 2009 @ 2:23 pm

Great photos…they would make nice notecards for correspondence!

It looks like that would be my type of camping. Provided the campsite’s facilities are porcelain. I don’t mind a bit of walk to get to them as long as I can sit a cool slick seat;-)

Comment by Heather

June 2, 2009 @ 7:45 pm

Gorgeous photos.

Comment by Carrie K

June 3, 2009 @ 5:48 pm

It all sounds fabulous! Sorry to hear that the good vibes didn’t help with the sunset/sunrise pictures but those rail wood shots were gorgeous.

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