10,000 Lakes

Minnesota's license plates boast of the state's ten thousand lakes. The part they left out was the ten trillion mosquitos.

After camping in the Mississippi River headwaters region and fighting off lots and lots of annoying little creatures, we stopped by to visit my two favorite big creatures in the region: Paul Bunyan and Babe, his blue ox. Dad and I are both big fans of roadside kitsch, and this statue is one of the classics.