{"id":116,"date":"2008-06-23T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tom-nan.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2023-12-31T00:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T06:40:18","slug":"day-3-a-late-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/23\/day-3-a-late-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 &#8211; A late start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We got a little bit of a late start yesterday, but that&#8217;s ok, we have a little less ground to cover.&nbsp; Mom drove from Minneapolis to Jamestown, North Dakota.&nbsp; We wanted to go to the Mall of America but we got in late and had a late start and we&#8217;re not sure but think the mall opens a little later on Sundays.&nbsp; Book Bug got to see two libraries and a Geocache location plus he also saw a large Booming Prarie Chicken Statue at Rothsay ND, the Prairie Chicken Capitol of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stop 1. Hennepin County Public Library in Maple Grove, Minnesota. The library was closed as expected early on a Sunday morning.&nbsp; Book bug got to check out the grounds and then followed us across the street to McDonalds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stop 2.&nbsp; &#8220;On the Road to Victory&#8221; Geocache location.&nbsp; This cache was off of a neat trail at a rest area just east of Exit 103 on I-94.&nbsp; There were a lot of mosquitos here too, but Book Bug liked his temporary location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stop 3.&nbsp; Rothsay, Minnesota.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve never heard of a Booming Prairie Chicken but Book bug got to learn right along with us.&nbsp; We had lunch here and then made tracks closer to Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stop 4.&nbsp; Carrington, North Dakota.&nbsp; Dwayne, a friend of Tom&#8217;s, Told him to stop here,&nbsp; Unfortunately it was late on a Sunday.&nbsp; Nancy mailed some post cards out and we found the library. Book Bug wanted to visit, but it was closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stop 5.&nbsp; Canadian Border.&nbsp; It was dark when we got here but we tried to snap a few pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are a few snap shots from today&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc_0005.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4672\" title=\"DSC_0005\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc_0004.jpeg?w=511\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4673\" width=\"609\" height=\"915\" title=\"DSC_0004\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc_0007.jpeg?w=511\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4674\" width=\"609\" height=\"915\" title=\"DSC_0007\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSC_0004.jpg\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc_0009.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4675\" title=\"DSC_0009\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc_0075-1.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4676\" title=\"DSC_0075\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc_0077-1.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4677\" title=\"DSC_0077\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc_0087.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4679\" title=\"DSC_0087\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc_0134.jpeg?w=511\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4680\" width=\"609\" height=\"915\" title=\"DSC_0134\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/100_0136.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4681\" title=\"100_0135\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got a little bit of a late start yesterday, but that&#8217;s ok, we have a little less ground to cover.&nbsp; Mom drove from Minneapolis to Jamestown, North Dakota.&nbsp; We wanted to go to the Mall of America but we got in late and had a late start and we&#8217;re not sure but think the &#8230; <a title=\"Day 3 &#8211; A late start\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/23\/day-3-a-late-start\/\" aria-label=\"More on Day 3 &#8211; A late start\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4835,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/4835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}