We drove our coach 307 miles, about five hours of driving, from Maple Grove, Minnesota to Mitchell, South Dakota.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading southwest:

An interactive map:

Roadworks:

Minnesota’s largest candy store:

LeSueur water tower:

When a place catches our interest, I’ll often look it up on Wikipedia (in this case, LeSueur), and read out interesting factoids to Jenn:

Saint Peter:

Happy Chef Restaurant:

Paladin on the driver chair during a rest stop:

A van towing a trailer:

Since 1906:

Ship:

Train and wind turbine:

Cows:

Welcome to South Dakota:

Roadworks, with everyone on one side of the freeway:

Fuel stop:

Winnebago’s all-electric prototype eRV2:

Paladin on the dash:

Our destination:

We drove our coach 250 miles, about five hours of driving, from Rochester, Illinois to Cascade, Iowa.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading north:

An interactive map:

Peoria:

A weird trailer:

Roadworks:

A helicopter dusting corn:

Paladin in his dash bed on the freeway; very unusual for him, though he’s been getting more comfortable staying there for a few minutes before jumping down:

Flooded road:

Welcome to Iowa:

Paladin asleep:

Iowa 80 truck stop, the world’s largest truck stop:

A very Iowa fun with zoom:

Barn:

Wapsipinicon River:

Oxford Junction:

Corn:

Onslow:

We had to do a long detour due to a closed road:

Cascade: