Oooh, that's faaar!

Minneapolis was fantastic. The art scene was even cooler than I had hoped for and the city itself was an architectural soup of cool. We browsed through the offerings of the Minneapolis Center for Book Arts (aka Open Book) and Aesthetic Apparatus. The areas of town were diverse and hip, such as Uptown with its Latin flare for restaurants and language, downtown with its big buildings and view of the river, and our area next to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts that treated us to 17 blocks of ethnic foods. The bus system was great and the multitude of bikes and bike lanes showed us the eco-friendly side of the Twin Cities. A secret gem, we said goodbye to Minneapolis and rolled onward through the night to South Dakota. National monuments and stories of the peoples before Europeans await.