Heading to the Badlands!

Yesterday we started in New York and drove through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois without much fanfare.

Today was a *real* adventure. From Illinois, we went through Wisconsin and when we got to Austin, MN we passed a sign saying "Spam Museum next exit". Really, how could we *possibly* pass that up? Laughing so hard we had tears in our eyes, we drove down Spam Blvd to the parking attendant who informed us that our "Spambassador" was waiting for us inside. Inside the lobby we were met with the "Real Great Wall" (pictured below) which was made up of 3,500 cans of Spam. The brochure said, and I quote: "At one can per day, this wall could feed you for almost 10 years. Dreamy."

So.......we had our picture taken with "Spammy" and it looks like he got a little too fresh for his own good!

I have never laughed so hard through the winding isles of Spam and more Spam information and displays!! I'm not gonna lie, this is THE least likely place in the Universe for a committed vegetarian of 20 years to be!! I'm just so glad we both have the quirkiest sense of humor to even end up here!  As we left Spamalot, fighting off our urges to buy souvenirs, we noticed the Mayo Clinic has a hospital just around the corner.  Coincidence?

From MN we traveled on to South Dakota where we are now settled in for the night.  Let's just say.....South Dakota is just a tad different from MA.