Day One: Upper Mid-West

About Christmas time of 2013, my daughter Kailee mentioned an Iclandic Studies Class at the University of Minnesota and expressed an interest in attending the class.  Plans were made along with dicussions of how to pay for the class.  When she was accepted into the summer course, plans shifted of how to travel to the area.  First plans were to drive from Dresden. TN to Minneapolis, MN a 14-hour drive and what to do on the way, while there and return trip.  In the final weeks of preparation, it was decided to fly since there would only be two of us and that would be less expensive than driving.
Since my daughter, cachestalker94, is not has interested in geocaching as she was when much younger, I selected caches that would not be hard terrain and be interesting.  This trip would also give us new states to add to your geocaching profiles.

We flew from Nashville on the Friday prior to Memorial Day weekend which the airports in Nashville and Chicago were very busy.  While in Chicago, we endured a 2-hour flight delay and we would arrive in Minneapolis and at the hotel after 11 pm and we were exhausted.

To save on costs of a rental car, we waited for the next full day before obtaining the car and we took the public transporation train from the hotel to the airport and picked up the car.  This also gave Kailee experience with public transportation system.  We signed for the car and off we went to the city.

Went went after a virtual The Holy Grail? in a nice area of town and unique watertower.  Then we picked up Mr. Little Guy's House which had a nice view of one of the lakes in the area.  We did have an encounter with a not-so-nice muggle and went on our way.  We visited the university, walked around the campus and nearby community.  With that done, we went after caches in Wisconsin, beginning with Stone Teepee at Birkammoo's and later a nice earthcache, The Scenic St. Croix.  We would return to Minnesota and pick up Indian Mounds Park Overlook.  We returned to the hotel, rested a bit and took the trail to the Mall of America to end the day.