good morning from Minnesota here on the Great River Road guys this is the start
of week three of the Great River Road and I'll actually pop a map up on your
screen here of exactly where we are in terms of the entire Great River Road so
we're just at the bottom of Minnesota getting ready to possibly go into a new
state we shall see we started with snow on this trip then
we saw lots of sunshine and we got rained on all last night
so we'll just improvise and enjoy the rain today happy to have you trav it
along with Jax and I go see what we can
find
well this is exciting we have officially hit our third state as we just crossed
over this section of the Mississippi River that puts us in Iowa I like their
sign with a nice black outline there for the Great River Road
I think Iowa gets credit for the best Great River Road signs and that
Driftless area Scenic Byway sounds cool too
kind of funny that the picture has the autumn colors that we're actually
looking at this time of year so extra bonus we won't be in Iowa very long but
we'll come back I promise promise I'll give you a one thing Iowa you are pretty
even in the rain but we're gonna cross over the Mississippi one more time and
go back to Wisconsin because I want to find some possibly endure things to do
if it's just gonna pour later so I'm adapting that great river roadmap
that I have it shows all of the intersections that you can cross back
over there all over the place so like I said don't worry I will be back to Iowa
this is so pretty Wow narrow bridge weight limits we are
okay whoo this is a narrow bridge
Wow all right high Mississippi River how you doing today holy cow
he wasn't scared
looks like they may be building a new bridge though that's what they're doing
and welcome to Wisconsin deja vu weren't we just here a couple days ago little
boat landing here for the Upper Mississippi River doing a lot of fishing
down there looks pretty flooded oh it's really flooded yeah we did get a lot of
rain last night guys so oh yeah it's way up high
okay swampy in fact let's stop and take a
look at this this is creepy now swampy it is in here I'll bet the
area is just really used to it every time the Mississippi River floods these
trees just get completely soaked under water so in the spring and summer
they're probably pretty happy but they've lost almost all of their leaves
right now that's running water down there and it's got algae forming on it
Wow doesn't it look swampy wow that's crazy
it's still swampy on both sides we're still crossing over to the other Great
River Road route so this is the I don't know two mile difference between the
Mississippi River the Mississippi River isn't two miles long but clearly it has
many different forms actually yes it is two miles long because here we go again
uh pertness how can there be two Mississippi rivers no there isn't
it's just it's two miles wide that's insane Wow
okay we have finally reached the end of the Mississippi River and we are going
south and there's our Great River Road logo there off to the right so all right
for a little bit here the Mississippi River is back to our right side
you've been one of the only bad things about November hitting is that you know
all those campgrounds and places that say open April through October
it's very common April through October well let's boat what do you think yea or
nay oh wow that was not my guess nice little walking bridge here over some
sort of creek that will eventually find its way to the Mississippi just a baby
right now
yeah so it doesn't say that they closed ever this place might be open all the
time ten bucks to camp they got camping passes in their use of air conditioners
or electric heaters prohibited strange okay actually the only place I ever saw
that was an RV park down in Florida that I paid for like thirty bucks for a
30-amp and everything but you couldn't run your air conditioner what that was
pretty weird well then what's the point anyway cute park it says campers only
after 11:00 p.m. so it's free until 11 p.m. otherwise $10 to overnight they do
have the water so I'll at least top off on the way out just made a little stop
here in links Ville Wisconsin and more evidence that the Mississippi River is
flooding in a little few places right here this is usually a little Park boat
launch area in fact there's where you're supposed to pay for the boat launch two
dollars but you're not gonna get there right now because this whole area is
completely flooded have you ever seen dried-up algae up close that's what it
looks like it looks like almost green seeds
yummy
and there's the Mississippi River out there hey at least the rains died off
elder
this captain had a bad day guys I can almost guarantee you he did not mean to
park this boat right there and it may be a while until the Mississippi
floodwaters can get him out of there now he's he's pretty much just stuck
there actually over here you can kind of see that the Mississippi River is is
getting pretty high it's flooding a little bit right now but not gonna be
enough health stories that old boat could probably tell though Wow
just stopped here in Dickey bill ere maturity I've actually shown you guys a
couple of these in the last few months here is a religious grotto built out of
concrete rock and miscellaneous junk this is the nicest coolest one I've seen
though so it's just made out of whatever they had mostly rocks and concrete but
also other pieces of glass and other stuff colored rocks if it were a nice
blue sunny sky this would look really cool and we're not getting much again
who cares if you're religious or not just don't be hateful just look at it as
art that's what it is it's art Wow it's like Salvation Mountain all over again
quite a collection yeah we're here in potosi Wisconsin and Potosi Contemporary
Art Museum yeah I was thinking the same thing let me google it National Brewing
Museum beer
I guess I can understand and possibly relate to someone who's really excited
about a Contemporary Art Museum but not for me I parked here in potosi and I may
even do some boondocking right next to the creek right next to whatever Creek
brick that is but let's go explore the National Brewing Museum here in potosi
why not may even have some food or something yeah it's possible that this
place could have some brewing history giant beer bottle there so there's wine
tasting across the street and another bar over there there's a brewery in
saloon over there we're gonna check out this one though oh cool here at the
Welcome Center there is another great River Road map here that shows the
entire tire journey and we're right about here is potosi right there yep
we're inside somehow I have never heard of potosi beer I don't think I've ever
seen it for sale anywhere this is their Museum here here's how you make barley
pop guys coal corn grits you got your hops of course your barley
from the barley pop one way to transfer the beer mm-hmm another way would be a
big paddle boat it's $5 to see the museum here which includes the micro
brewery on the third floor and also includes a voucher for a free beer well
for a beer so I'll stop at the restaurant and get a beer and food on
the way out first let's look at those magnets okay that's kind of cool it's
all wood but I also just like the really small toasty bottle cap there
this is the cave downstairs this is how this is the only way that they could
chill the beer back when they first started brewing was to put it in the
cave they are aging some beer in here right now pretty neat huh you can see
those barrels back there those are probably leave what they're aging right
now the real game though maybe are upstairs in the brew house here there's
the mall topper there the mash tun you
get to drink on the job too man
our beer slits from Milwaukee good old PBR got me through my college
years before I switched to Rainier and then now I'm Bud Light but you'll just
have to check this place out for yourself because there's a lot to see in
this museum guys this is a 1918 bottle filler yeah not quite as efficient as
the bottling lines of today but I'll bet it was really convenient back then to
have this and that the barrel rinser there I like the old school to TV up
there they have the old Schlitz Playhouse punched here it was on the
front of the brew house just like that
this natural spring water is used to bring every drop of our Potosi beer and
you can hop right over it here's where thy foods there's my coupons with the
little atossa golden
we'll just
yeah garlic was burger gonna try six different ones there
it's pretty good actually burger was pretty good and I got a souvenir for
that special someone she'll see this but she won't know what
flavor it is it was the best out of the six the best news of all I asked if it
was okay to overnight Park I used those terms overnight Park not camper anything
like that in your parking lot and the kind waitress said she said I don't
really think we enforce anything so you're probably okay so I get a free
night parking here by the creek the brook awesome right that'll work
sorry buddy they didn't have any kiddie Shandy they were all out of kitty Shandy
sorry buddy how you doing you missed me oh you
missed a grass okay you want to go swimming no doesn't sound very good it's
too cold William Oh an act
oh you're meowing at everybody else not me well that's good okay guys have a
great night Jax and I will see you back on the Great River Road heading south on
Wednesday good night guys
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