{"id":3255,"date":"2015-11-04T07:10:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T14:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2015-11-04T07:10:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T14:10:45","slug":"day-146-brainerd-minnesota-and-20000-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=3255","title":{"rendered":"Day 146: Brainerd, Minnesota and 20,000 Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though we were back in Minnesota, we were in the far north of the state, where I had never been before to the best of my recollection.<\/p>\n<p>We started off having a look at a very cold beach in Detroit Lakes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-11.33.11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3258\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-11.33.11-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-31 11.33.11\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-11.33.11-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-11.33.11-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On our way east to our last state, we went through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brainerd,_Minnesota\" target=\"_blank\">Brainerd<\/a>, a place I had known friends of mine from Wisconsin to go to on holiday. It was definitely the off season as the rain poured down and the temperature hung around the mid 40s Fahrenheit. Despite that,\u00a0a few things did manage to happen.<\/p>\n<p>We unexpectedly crossed the Mississippi one more time on this journey. I had known the source was somewhere above Minneapolis, but not exactly where. It turns out some of the most northern course of it was in the middle of Brainerd:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-14.14.06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3260\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-14.14.06-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-31 14.14.06\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-14.14.06-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-14.14.06-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-14.14.06.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We then encountered a halloween themed protest against military involvement abroad. Check out the video for that:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_23160\"  width=\"700\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"700\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GRPCx8jFCuM?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We saw a few more roadsideamerican.com sights, including a serpent at Serpent Lake:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-14.50.52-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3261\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-14.50.52-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-31 14.50.52-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-14.50.52-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-14.50.52-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-14.50.52-1-230x230.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-14.50.52-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>And a deer in Deerwood:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-15.24.50.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-15.24.50-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-31 15.24.50\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-15.24.50-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-15.24.50-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We continued on east and finally, after nearly 5 months of travel, hit the 20,000 mile mark just inside the city of Duluth:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-17.11.13-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-17.11.13-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-31 17.11.13-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-17.11.13-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-17.11.13-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-17.19.22-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-17.19.22-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-31 17.19.22-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-17.19.22-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-17.19.22-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-17.19.22-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We spent the night in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duluth,_Minnesota\" target=\"_blank\">Duluth<\/a>. It was Chris&#8217;s first Halloween in the US:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-18.19.34.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-18.19.34-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-31 18.19.34\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-18.19.34-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-31-18.19.34-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though we were back in Minnesota, we were in the far north of the state, where I had never been before to the best of my recollection. We started off having a look at a very cold beach in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,292,293,294,32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-brainerd","category-detroit-lakes","category-duluth","category-minnesota","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}