 All right, we got our stuff ready. Good boy, babies! Good boy! All right, we just stopped at Quick Trip and got some little munchies for dinner, and now we're on our way. So excited! I hope this works out. We both just got burgers, which is cute because on our last road trip, we got burgers, and yeah, it's cute. So we're headed out! Four hours to go, and then we're going to be sleeping in our car at the campground, and then a full day of hiking after that tomorrow. So we are about an hour away from the campsite. Weston is currently getting some gas. Actually you can see him in the back window and yeah, we got the trunk all full of our stuff, lots of food, and then under all that you can see like pillows, and then somewhere in there is also the blankets and the mattress pad and things like that. So we're almost there! I'm so excited! Oh there's Weston. Good morning everybody! It is currently 8am. Actually I shouldn't be talking. And we just had a night sleeping in our car, basically winter camping, and we're gonna go visit the start of the Mississippi River today. We are at Itasca State Park, and we slept in the Pine Ridge Campground site 115, and it was pretty nice. I thought it was pretty easy to find, and yeah, now we're just looking for a bathroom, and we're gonna start our hiking day. We're here at the Mary Gibbs Mississippi Headwaters Center, and we're gonna go check out the start of the Mississippi River. Is it chilly? Not too chilly. It's only 25 out here, not cold. That other spot was a little warmer. Now we are officially at the Mississippi Headwaters, and there it is! There's the start of the Mississippi! And there is a little webcam over here, and then there's this big sign, and this says here 1,475 feet above the ocean, the mighty Mississippi begins to flow on its winding way 2,552 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. We are going to go down the path there, but we're gonna check out the webcam really quick before we go. We are at the Headwaters, and this is a screen shot of the webcam they have, and there we are. Hee hee! The Minnesota thing I could wear today. To visit the Mississippi Headwaters. Hey, smile again! Cute! There's the Headwaters. We are going to go down this little boardwalk path over to, I guess, back to the car maybe, but yeah, I'm so glad we made this trip, and it was super fun to just do a little winter camping and come visit the start of the Mississippi that neither of us have ever been to, so it's just a really cool and special experience, and I'm really glad we did it. We're gonna enjoy the rest of our little hike here, and I guess we'll catch you guys at the Visitor Center. Oh, we got shy. All right, we're at the Visitor Center. We're gonna go check it out, see if we can get one of those passport travel books for the Minnesota State Parks, and just go check it out. I don't think really anything's open right now, but we'll see, see what we can find, and we saw some deer. Crazy, so much wildlife right now. Great, we just left the Visitor Center. There wasn't really much, unfortunately, due to COVID, but we got our little passport club, so we got our first stamp, and then we got a cute sticker and some pins for our hiking bags, even though we didn't really hike that much, but I don't know, we still marked it off the list, so it's exciting. So yeah, so we're gonna go to the next stop now, which is in Bemidji. We are making a brief pit stop at the, what's this called? La Salle Lake State Recreation Area. So this is part of the Mississippi Headwaters, and we're gonna go check it out. We're just walking down to the boat launch. This is so cool. It's just like such a beautiful, sunny day, walking out on the ice. It's a little windy. There's Paul Bonion and Babe. I am blanking for some reason on the story behind them. We are here on Lake Bemidji, our first, my first time, your first time, right? It's been a fun trip so far. The sun feels nice. We're checking out this little ice snow mound. Bemidji State Park. There's Lake Bemidji. This ice is kind of great. It's nice to make, but this is kind of cool. Crazy. It's like, it's like cold, but it feels good. It's weird. So we're here, so then if we just, oh, it goes right there. We are now at Schoolcraft State Park. It is our third state park of the day, and there's the beautiful Mississippi there, and there's a bunch of these really pretty old pine trees, which is super cool. So unlike the other two state parks that we went to, and we're like some of the only people here, which is really cool. So this is really beautiful, and the sun just shining through the trees. It's so pretty. Why are you laughing at me? Oh, it's about a little like baby pine tree. They're specifically like breed that they're protecting because they have some of them. They're just like sectioned up. There's that little baby pine tree, which is what it is. I'm just talking about. This guy who was walking by talked about the otter holes, the sea otters, the river otters. So you can look down this little embankment here and see where they're poking their heads up. That's pretty cute. These trees are so large. We are now in Grand Rapids, hanging out at Culver's right now, getting some lunch or dinner or whatever you want to call it. So yeah, we're just in Grand Rapids now and then we're going to two more state parks and one of them we're going to spend the night at the camp ground there. So pretty excited. I booked a backpacking site and we're just going to sleep in the car. Maybe they have the parking. So that'll be interesting to say the least, but yeah, it's been a good day so far. Is that my barbecue? We are now at Savannah Portage State Park and this is a little bit off the Mississippi, but we are here. It's around 5pm now. The sun is going to start setting very, very soon. So we are just getting in our last little hikes here. We're not really sure where to hike. We kind of just walked up a little trail there. So yeah, we're just going to look around a little bit, see if there's anything else to check out. But otherwise, after that, we're just going to drive the hour to hour campground and get ready for bed. What have we got here? That sun looks so pretty. This might be our only like really snowy place. This is kind of crazy though. Oh, there's the bridge. Made it to Malax, wait, no, Malax, Cathio State Park. And we are in the car night number two. And yeah, we're all late for the night. So hopefully it won't be as cold as yesterday. And I think the windows bent a little bit better today, hopefully. But yeah, we're going to head to bed.