As for lakes, this is an area that isn’t our states greatest natural treasure. We definitely have forested mountains, mostly pines and firs, with a few aspens sprinkled in here and there. You might say “don’t you have that in Colorado?” The answer is, sort of. We were looking for lakes and forests, and Minnesota definitely has that. Both Kansas and Nebraska have places that we enjoy, but we were looking for something more than what the Great Plains has to offer. One of the mental barriers of driving east out of Colorado is that you have to drive about eight hours to get across eastern Colorado and either Kansas or Nebraska.

At the end of this summer, we decided to do things a little different and headed east (and north) to to the land of 10,000 lakes, Minnesota. When we travel anywhere from Colorado by car/camper, we normally head in three of the four directions: north, south, and west.