| | For the rest of my life, I know that's what I'll think of when I hear the name of Tiana's home state! Minnesota - at least from our house to the motel where we stayed, is 18.5 hours when driven straight through, as we did on the way out. That's a lot of riding. I was made aware of every lump in my backside, including a few I hadn't realized were there before last Thursday! 
All in all though, it wasn't bad. But we were very happy to see this sign:
It was about 6 their time when we saw it. A few hours more took us through the Twin Cities, and up into the real deal of the Midwestern prairie country. We were amazed to see these flashing lights off in the distance, just as it started to get dark.
Ignore the light tracings, although I think they're kinda cool - it's the sky you should notice. At first, we thought maybe it was airport lights. Then we thought maybe it was fireworks. By the time it was full dark, we knew what it was.
But despite several attempts, and really funky tracings from lights on cars and along the road, I never managed to really capture lightning with my camera. There was cloud to cloud and cloud to ground lightning, but we couldn't hear any thunder. We drove toward the storm for more than an hour, fascinated the whole time. I eventually took some video. We had the radio on, so you'll hear that in the background. Sorry about that - but focus on the pictures. We found it so amazing!
The background song to this video is very ironic...
Pretty cool, huh?
We finally made it to Brandon, Minnesota about 12:00 am our time, after leaving home at 5:10 am. Looooooooooong day. That's where we had reservations. Thankfully, we'd driven by a larger town 12 miles before that had many hotels and motels, because when we got to the motel where our reservations were made for Friday and Saturday nights, it was closed. It wasn't as though we'd been expected. So we got back on I-94 and went back to "Alec," as it's called and stayed in the first place we tried. Turned out it was quite a bit more than the place we'd stay up the road a bit, but hey, we were too tired to care!
Next entry, I'll tell you what we did until we could hook up with Jason and Tiana and her family. And maybe about them, too. 
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