8-2-08 Day 36 Fargo to Milwaukee

On the road at 7:35 going east on 94. Weather was sunny and about 60 when we left and warmed to the mid/upper 80's. Fargo, ND is only a few miles from the Minnesota border so we cross in a few minutes and notice that the speed limit is down to 65 from 75 so we set our speed to about 70. Both MN & Wisconson are farm country but the major crop here is corn not wheat and there seemed to be less livestock. The road here has gently rolling hills and curves and as we are now an interstate that has exits we don't have to have any stop & go through town. We're not in the rural west any more so we won't see tractors, sprayers, cultivators or combines on the road any more! Mark actually heard a commercial on the radio for the new CASE combine! We stopped for lunch in St. Cloud, MN and stopped by the Harley dealer. This is a large dealership with a ton of people working and lots of customers. They had 16 techs working in service. Every Saturday they do a cookout which is probably why it was so busy. They had a huge inventory of new bikes in the showroom and outside as well as the biggest motorclothes display I've seen. They also do internet based sales on Ebay. After lunch we put a bunch of miles on heading east on 94 into Milwaukee where we had a reserved a hotel. It was a 600+ mile day. Tomorrow we're going to the new Harley museum that just opened July 12th. Our plan is to get east of Chicago tomorrow afternoon so we don't have to deal with that traffic Monday morning.