A sampler from a trip through Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, taken at the end of summer in 1992. If you want to see the whole thing (200+ pics), stop on over at the Road Trip 1992 section of my web site.

 

Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois.

 

Mid-continent Railway Museum, North Freedom, Wisconsin

 

Circus World Museum, Baraboo, Wisconsin.

 

Pelican Rapids, Minnesota and thereabouts.

 

Rollag, Minnesota

 

Pontiac, Illinois

 

Sights along the road

Thanks!

I can't believe someone else has been to the Norske Nook in Osseo! We have family in the twin cities and I've been forced to stop several times en route.

 

Fargo looks interesting.

I can't believe someone else has been to the Norske Nook in Osseo! We have family in the twin cities and I've been forced to stop several times en route.

 

Fargo looks interesting.

 

Norske Nook is something of a legend among people who travel that route. Once you've eaten there, it's nigh on impossible to drive by on future trips without stopping. While we were the Minneapolis Streetcar Museum, the fellow who was showing around asked us if we had eaten there on the way up.

 

When we told him we were headed for Rollag, he said, "Dat's a pretty good time, but don't let dem make you eat none o' dat lutefisk!"

I can't believe someone else has been to the Norske Nook in Osseo! We have family in the twin cities and I've been forced to stop several times en route.

 

Fargo looks interesting.

 

Norske Nook is something of a legend among people who travel that route. Once you've eaten there, it's nigh on impossible to drive by on future trips without stopping. While we were the Minneapolis Streetcar Museum, the fellow who was showing around asked us if we had eaten there on the way up.

 

When we told him we were headed for Rollag, he said, "Dat's a pretty good time, but don't let dem make you eat none o' dat lutefisk!"

 

lutefisk is bad. Lefse with lingenberries, though, now yer talkin! A delicious dessert after a fine meal of fiskeboller.

A coworker who grew up in Minnesota described traditional old-school lutefisk:

 

"It's cod preserved in Lye and stacked like cordwood outside to freeze-dry in winter. To prepare it, they wash it to get rid of the lye residue, and then bake it with butter and serve it on a board. You throw away the cod and eat the board."

LOL, my dad described it almost identically!