Rochester, MN 11/20/05

Well, here we are in the wonderful winter wonderland of Rochester, MN. We left Troy this morning about 7:30 and arrived here around 3:30. It took us about 14 hours to drive 900 miles. We started out with overcast skies and 42 degrees. We passed famous Hannibal, MO. If we are feeling like it and the weather is nice, we may explore the town a bit on the way back. By the time we got a little north of Waterloo, IA, the temperature started to drop and we began seeing leftover snow on the sides of the road. By the time we got to Rochester, the temperature was 32. We had overcast skies all day. I haven't seen any leftover snow here in Rochestger so far. May see some fresh snow pretty soon though.

We had four lanes about 80 percent of the way which was nice. The scenery was nice too. The trees look like they are in the dead of winter--no leaves left at all. We kept remarking to each other how the landscape reminded us of places we have been. Once you get into northern Iowa, it is flat farm land and grid square highways--very few diagonals, sort of reminds you of east Texas. About the only evergreen trees you see is a few cedars here and there and usually a lot of various spruce and cedar planted around farm houses in double rows as a wind/snow break.

The Transplant House left us a message which said they have a room for us around 3 tomorrow. So we will move over there tomorrow.

That's about all I have for now. Check back later for updates from Jack's Travel Log.