We left the big city early in the morning, driving through Illinois country roads and the Wisconsin Dells, and arrived in another big city, Minneapolis.
There, we met up with our old friends, Larry and Lauri. We go way back, almost 30 years, when Hien and I were on our one-year backpacking journey. In October 1997, in Antigua, Guatemala, we met a couple from the US who were doing the same thing as us, a one-year backpacking journey! It was Larry and Lauri. We later reunited with them in Nicaragua and trekked together through Costa Rica and Panama.
Larry and Lauri kindly hosted us for two nights and showed us around St. Louis Park, Minneapolis, and St. Paul. On the last evening, we watched a baseball game at CHS Field: the St. Paul Saints vs. the Omaha Storm Chasers. It was a wonderful reunion.