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Shoes and Stoplights

9/21/2017

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Frontenac State Park, about 13 miles southeast of Red Wing, Minnesota, sits high on the bluffs overlooking Lake Peppin, on of the widest points of the Mississippi. The views from the picnic overlook are stunning. Ending up here for two nights was a happy accident.

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We took a drive back into Red Wing yesterday with three goals: a grocery store, the Red Wing Shoe Museum, and the Ski Jump museum. The last was not to be. Red Wing claims to be the birthplace of ski-jumping and the old St. James Hotel offers exhibits on the mezzanine backing up that claim but it is apparently only open on weekends. We did get to the small shoe museum, actually in the Red Wing Store. It was an interesting display and includes the largest work boot in the world--made of all the same materials as the standard sizes. We also found a fun independent bookstore, Fair Trade Books.

Red Wing's Main Street is very busy because it also Highway 61. There are those buttons to push for the crosswalks, and this very disconcerting and imperious voice, sounding something like the AFLAC duck, orders "Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!" until the light changes. I didn't like him.


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We had a 'small world' incident in the campground. The people across from us are from Ottumwa and lived at one time in Lone Tree, so we had several mutual acquaintances. We had a nice visit around the fire.

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