I’m always looking for road trip ideas, and especially for destinations that are within a few hours of the Twin Cities. The House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin had been popping up in my search results for a few years, so we finally decided to take a weekend to go check it out….

We didn’t end up in Winnipeg on purpose. The original plan was to drive to Fargo, North Dakota. I had taken a Greyhound bus through Fargo twenty years ago and had some dim memory of a quaint Sinclair Lewis-y Main Street, complete with three-story brick buildings and striped awnings. I wanted to see it again….