2008-08-16 Foxboro, WI to Minneapolis, MN

1997 Mazda 626

Foxboro is a place that can be described by the phrase "Tucked Away". It is away from any major interstate system but has one state highway going through it. Being new to the place at night, and due to the fact that I didn't study the area on a map before getting there, I was wondering to myself how the trip to Minneapolis would fare. In any case, iPod and a Rand McNally atlas in hand, we set forth to traverse the myriad roads connecting the two places.

Distances and directions interact differently with you under the cloak of darkness. and it was interesting to travel under these conditions with a time constraint. We were keeping a friend waiting to play host, which is why we had to hurry. My initial time estimates went out of the window when every new road that we turned into had a lower speed limit. We stopped once for gas and spotted a few deer waiting to cross the road.

Things got interesting when we encountered a closed road, and had to take a diversion. The rest of the night was spent poring over the atlas and trying to align our route with where we wanted to go. Though we were thoroughly lost at this point, the roads we traveled took us through some beautiful winding roads that followed the Mississippi river by its Minnesota banks.

After some beautiful roads, we finally got onto the freeway, where I just planted my foot down to pass through the concrete jungle as quick as we could.

We made it through to Minneapolis well past midnight, but not too tired to stay awake another two hours chatting with my friend.