Heading home after eight days in Iowa. We decided to return by way of Wisconsin to Minneapolis. We crossed from Iowa to Wisconsin at Lansing, Iowa. We drove north to La Crosse where we crossed into Minnesota and drove on Interstate 90 and connected to Interstate 52 at Rochester, then up to Minneapolis.
Our trip [...]
What a privilege to be visiting our team in Waukon, Iowa. This is the seventh day of our trip teaching and training our Take Shape For Life team here in the Midwest. In addition, we’ve enjoyed the people, the history, the wonderful sights of the agricultural element the people living in the heartland enjoy.
We’ve discovered that even here in the [...]
Today we took a little time off and headed north to ‘Harmony’, Minnesota, to enjoy another part of our ‘melting pot’ America, the Amish community. The Amish adhere to their religious heritage and seem to be very strictly aligned in this area with their beliefs.
We headed north on Hwy 52 from Decorah and crossed the [...]
We headed out today to view the Effigy Mounds, a National Monument highlighting an ancient indian culture. Our personal guide of this area was Adam Nevermann, our Executive Director partner here in Waukon, IA. We learned they buried their warriors and elderly under mounds and then shaped many of these burial grounds into different wildlife figures such as bears [...]
Nancy and I awakened a little apprehensive this morning. Today is the 5k run which the event organizers call the 5k Elvelopet. Everything has a Norwegian twist to it during the Nordic Fest. In fact, walking around today and speaking with many of the people attending this weekend, I noticed that many of them didn’t [...]
After picking Nancy up from her walk in the country we headed toward Decorah to enjoy the first full day of the Nordic Fest. Since it was a Friday and the weather was not predicted to be the best, I think it might have kept a few of the party-goers from venturing out. But it didn’t [...]
Nancy and I enjoyed day 2 of our training trip in Decorah & Waukon, Iowa. Nancy got up early and was going to take a 5k walk in the country (in preparation for the event we’ve both entered for tomorrow morning) while I was catching up on some biz before the day really got started. I was then going [...]
We arrived safe & sound in Waukon, Iowa this afternoon to begin our TSFL training with our newest Executive Director team. We arose at 3am this morning to make a 6:10am flight to Minneapolis with a layover in Denver. The scenery was beautiful for the entire trip. We arrived in Waukon, Iowa, after driving through Minnesota, Wisconsin and [...]