With gas prices spiking these past few months and rental car shortages impacting rates and availability, we altered our road trip mantra during a recent visit to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. Cancelling our rental car reservation and booking an…
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The year was 2014 and I was road tripping across Minnesota, on my way to Walnut Grove, Pipestone National Monument, and ultimately Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A stop in Austin, Minnesota to visit the iconic SPAM® Museum was on my…
While driving through Southern Minnesota a few years ago, I realized we were in the heart of Laura Ingalls Wilder country. Pioneer author made famous by the Little House on the Prairie television series, Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in Iowa,…
While passing through the Southwest corner of Minnesota earlier this summer, an unmistakable brown and white sign reserved for national monuments popped into view: Pipestone National Monument Located in the town of Pipestone, Pipestone National Monument is the site where…
The kids are back in school, winter is inevitable, and road trip season has shrunken to the tune of a long weekend or holiday vacation. Accommodating both road warriors and jet setters with a long layover or stopover at the…
Residents of the Twin Cities for nearly six years, we traveled to all corners of Minneapolis/St. Paul on a quest for kid-friendly fun. Behold, our picks for Minneapolis metro with kids in tow!