National Monuments and toll roads...Day Five

We started the day quite rested after our full day out of the car, but the trek had to continue. We hopped back in and began the drive for Wisconsin, but made a little detour for a friend at home as well as my own curiosity. We drove down to Darwin Minnesota where the largest ball of twine built by one man rests. Unfortunately, we missed twine ball days festival by one day, but maybe next year...

We got pretty lucky that we started the day in a relaxed mode otherwise the gift shop wouldn't have been open and there would have been no way to pick up a bright orange t-shirt for Sarah! Thankfully, we got there right when they opened and after a short viewing and reading of the information board we went in to see the goods!

After all of the excitement in Darwin, not much else stuck out in the days trip since we were engrossed in a book on CD "Deception Point" by Dan Brown. Pretty good book or at least good enough to make us excited about getting in the car over the next few days. Other than that we passed through Wisconsin and into Illinois where we stopped in Champagne for the night.