For those who don't follow me on Twitter, or missed these the first time around, I wanted to present some of the highlights of a trip I made to the Mid West last week (I flew into Minneapolis on Thursday, drove down to Des Moines on Friday, flew home Saturday morning).
First, we visited a Go-Pher Stop
In addition to gasoline and the standard convenience store fare, one could also get a Midwest taquito (our term), which is basically a hot dog wrapped in a corn tortilla:
In addition to the above, apparently this location was also an "Official Big Game Registration Station."
And the fishing is pretty good too as evidenced by the big fish out front:
Later on down the highway, I woke from a nap as we were pulling into a place that at first I feared was some sort of kinky sex place, but turned out to be another gas/convenience store (the name may be NSFW for some):
And finally, our final gas stop was at:
