damn, those are some cool fucking pictures.

in fact, i have to say, your photography has really progressed over the last couple year-ish. :thumbsup i remember when you 1st started posting pics, huge difference from then to now eh.

Thanks BD will check that right out

I should leave this to the couple guys who live in the city but I cant resist.

The brown pointy building with the long antenna just to the left of the far left green sign is the Foshay Tower about 30 stories. It was once the tallest bldg when my grandpa took me up to the 30th floor outside lookout in about 1971.

You could go outside and all you had were some bars. The lookout was way up where it starts to pyramid at top. It was only 30 stories but really freaky being outside.

Now the IDS Center, left of center with two large antennas is about 55 stories built in the late 70s. I think it's one of the tallest buildings west of the Miss.

http://www.gotbaddog.com/wp-content/...polis_4113.jpg

and it is the same road Mary drove in I believe Highway 12. Prob not 12 but go with me on this. :)



you might just make it after all :)

a few years ago I thought it was silly and people were crazy to take trips to the middle of know where and visit old towns. why when there are huge party scenes, big cities and tourists spots... years later I now know why. id love to find a place that gets NO cell reception and stay there for a week :winkwink:

this is typical of the land along the Wisconsin-Minn border

http://www.gotbaddog.com/wp-content/...river_3963.jpg

i am a lineman for the county :) really nice

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but now we are going to head west folks down I-94 through Central and then up to NW Minn

this is a typical farm you would see around Freeport :) Dead center of the state. You are now 70 miles out of Mpls and it is getting real rural.

this is going to be exciting trust me lol

http://www.gotbaddog.com/wp-content/...nnhwy_4090.jpg

i dont know about you but I get hungry on the road so lets stop at Charlie's Cafe in Freeport

http://www.gotbaddog.com/wp-content/...oters_3747.jpg

give all my guests Double portions Charlie

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to be continued.. you are in my neck of the woods now. I was born in Sauk Centre and that is coming up next :)

Lot of stoners and juicers in this neck of the woods.

Why is this going to be exciting? Cause we are going to stop at the next town Melrose and score an oz for $40 of PrimO Greeno. This would be about 1974 tho :) Were all bitching tho cause 3 years earlier it was $15 an O.

I told everyone of the 9 bars in Sauk Centre that Baddog is coming thru with some dudes from the east. 9 Bars pop: 3500

You live out that way? I drive through there all the time on the 94 on my way to Bismarck, ND. I had a run for my expediting company back in February that went from Seattle to Detroit. There was a giant snow and ice storm when I hit ND and the 94 was shut down from Bismarck to Fargo, so I had to stop at a hotel for the night. Long story short I met a girl that worked at the hotel and have been seeing her casually ever since. Whenever I book freight going that way from Ohio I take it myself so I can stop in Bismarck and see her...

I liked the Minneapolis skyline. We plan on trying to do a project that includes skylines of major cities.

Thanks dyna mo, good camera and a ton of practice.

you have all heard of Sinclair Lewis? Of course not. lol But anyhow he wrote Main Street one of his best sellers in the 30's. He was also born in Sauk Centre. The street that runs the length of the 3 mile town is called Main Street. His house is now a tourist trap.

There is a little creek called Stone Arch where he carved his name into .. see if I can find a pic. This is the true essence of Minn. A little creek in July, some hot dogs, a log cabin we skipped school and built by hand, this was my childhood.

This is peace to me.

anyhow, fact is 94 isnt that exciting which is prob why BD didnt take many pics of the corn fields so we are taking old 52 from Freeport to Alexandria the next 40 miles BD. :) It is a little more exciting. Couple guys are nodding off lol

here is a typical nice farm as we mosey along

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looking to the other side of the road

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nothing but corn as we arrive at Sauk Centre

Nothing to do but eat and drink so lets eat again

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back on the road there isnt nothing to see but more corn all the way to Fargo :)

BUT Sauk Centre has some of the prettiest (Scandinavian) girls around. I drove a hell of a maze as a kid on a cycle (no license yet) to get to a girl on a farm about 7 miles out of town. 125 Honda dirt bike. :) Drove out there the long way to avoid the sheriffs who knew we were only 15 with no license. She made it worth my while tho. :)

Good stuff BD. Glad to have you in the state if only for a bit. :thumbsup

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Winter but EXACTLY like Lewis's Stone Arch in Sauk Centre.

Might even be it.

Cool :thumbsup I drove cars from Mpls to Fargo and then back for a while back in the 80s. $50 cash. They drove you down, you drove the car back. Great job. But I had to drive to Mpls to start which was a problem.

There are some truly beautiful women in Minn. Seriously.

I admire you long haul truckers. After I drive about 200 miles I am done. Good money in it tho. I tell guys who are young it is an easy way to make 80K a year but you got to be straight and you got to drive almost everyday.

I don't fuck with semi trucks anymore, too expensive to maintain and too many regulations. I own a few cargo vans and a few Dodge Sprinter vans, which can hold around 5000 pounds of freight and get 20 MPG (they have diesel engines made by Mercedes Benz). With the vans the drivers don't have to keep logs so they aren't DOT regulated and can drive as many miles in a day that they can handle. I usually spend my time in the office on the load boards booking runs for my drivers, but finding good expedite drivers is a bitch so more often than not I end up on the road myself. I can't begin to tell you how much I love it though. I made my living off porn for the majority of my adult life, but it's refreshing to know that I can succeed in something else.

It's funny, but in the last few years I fell in love with some towns that I never would have bothered visiting before. There are parts of Alabama that I love, and I never would have step foot in them if not for my expedite business. The same with Texas, there is so much freight going through the border towns that Texas is like my second home, but I love El Paso, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, etc...

I really envy you in how you see the nation. I love to dream about towns cause I havent really traveled much.

Remember the show City Confidential when they start it would have this little flavor of the city or town and it was so relaxing. Traveling is very relaxing in theory. In reality with all the trafffic now days prob not as much. :)

But congratz you are a real businessman. That is real big business and you got to see some stuff. Worse thing is to be in a factory putting the nut on the bolt for 30 years. Im prob not much better than a "nutfitter" :) except I dont have a boss which is a biggee. :)

After the evening at the rodeo we decided to check out Cody's Old Trail Town which is a replica of how Cody, WY looked back in the late 1800's. Pretty cool stuff. As we left town we came across Buffalo Bill Dam, so had to stop there. All these pics can be found at http://www.gotbaddog.com/cody-and-the-buffalo-bill-dam/ . . . . next stop, Yellowstone!

A few samples from the Cody area.


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After leaving the Buffalo Bill Dam we soon approached the east entrance to Yellowstone. There are over 300 miles of road and I would guess that we did about a third of it. I need to go back when I can spend more time. You can find all the Yellowstone photos at http://www.gotbaddog.com/yellowstone-national-park/

Here are a few samples.


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http://www.gotbaddog.com/wp-content/...stone_4992.jpg

You need a show on The History Channel, Baddog. Great pics!

I could live with that. :)

After leaving Yellowstone we entered Grand Teton National Park. After a brief visit there I know I want to come back and do more exploring. I think it was even better than Yellowstone.

You can find all the Teton photos at http://www.gotbaddog.com/photos-from...national-park/

A few samples.



http://www.gotbaddog.com/wp-content/...etons_5779.jpg


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http://www.gotbaddog.com/wp-content/...etons_5010.jpg


http://www.gotbaddog.com/wp-content/...etons_5047.jpg

Playing with some new software. This was effortless.