VIRGINIA to NORTH DAKOTA
Driving thru Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, we paused in Minot, North Dakota, an hour to the US/Canadian border.
Between the Appalachian mountains and the northern plains, thru the 11000 lakes of Minnesota, we went from one state park to another as we drove past large fields of windmills, huge farms and cornfields (among other crops) stretching to the horizon.
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Minnesota
Between the Appalachian mountains and the northern plains, thru the 11000 lakes of Minnesota, we went from one state park to another as we drove past large fields of windmills, huge farms and cornfields (among other crops) stretching to the horizon.
Pilot Mountain, NC
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Minnesota
Big farm require big equipment, 6ft tall tires
On the way to Minot , we stopped to visit Oscar-Zero Missile Alert Facility and November 33 Launch Facility. Part of US strategy of nuclear deterrence during the Cold war years (1966-1997), it has been decommissioned. A sixty feet underground bunker was occupied 24/7 by 2 person crew responsible to monitoring, launching and retargeting ten nuclear missiles.
Missile facility post with a team of 8 above ground.
60ft underground capsule for two ( red box, upper right, containing launch code)
Silo sliding door( blue loader) with round maintenance access hatch (left)
Three Minuteman missile fields, each with 150 nuclear missiles are still operating from the US air force in North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. 450 missiles, each 60 time more powerful than the one used over Japan during World War Two....
Northern Minnesota and North Dakota have a road networks running straight East/West and
North /South miles after miles at the time.
Northern Minnesota and North Dakota have a road networks running straight East/West and
North /South miles after miles at the time.
On the road again...to Canada
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