Sunday, July 27, 2025
Time: 3:03 PM
Song: The Space Between
Artist: Dave Matthews Band
Mode of Consumption: Listening to the radio somewhere between LaCrosse, Wisconsin and Prairie Du Chien.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/65KzDXZm9aQt8sA1k0ZVG3?si=6eb4c8ecb1c24fc0
The detour sign on The Great River Road was disheartening when we met it about 25 miles from Prairie Du Chien. Little did we know that it would begin what felt like a never-ending twisting-turning sojourn through southwest Wisconsin and then into northwestern Illinois.
The opening volley was the roadblock that turned our general direction from south and east to north and west. It’s the sort of change when your just over halfway home that sinks into the stomach.
We had left Red Wing by 8 AM, and traveled comfortably until we made it to Winona, Minnesota, at about 10. There we found an antique store that we spent a good hour and a half wandering through. Then we skipped down to LaCrosse without any issue where we stopped for lunch at an A&W.
It was the detour that got us just when I think we were all ready to put miles behind us and get home.
It had been a good trip, a fun trip, but we were all anxious to get back home and tackle the list of chores that needed to be done.
Then the detour. That cost us at least an hour.
In Prairie Du Chien, Jodi took over the driving so I could get us from there to Galena, Illinois.
There is no direct route, and the path that Google Maps took us seemed to the most rural and winding path possible. It was almost 5 PM when we got there and there’s still an hour of driving to get to our destination.
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