September 3
[After overnighting in Worthington, the plan was for a little more sightseeing, then heading northeast to New Ulm via Highway 60, and then spending the night in New Ulm. First up, drive by Mom’s old house in the morning . . . ]
[Downtown Worthington . . . ]
[Swing by El Azteca again . . . ]
Strange . . . but true
[This is Larry (with Laura, obviously). Larry was born in Worthington and lived in the house located one picture below this one. That house was about 4 blocks from where Mom grew up. Near as we can figure there was at least a few years overlap between the two families before Mom’s moved to Minneapolis, but they didn’t know each other then. When the McCoys moved to Alex some 30+ years later, they bought the Obert house (that we built in ’49-50-ish) in 1967 and have lived there ever since. The house has had the same phone number for 68 years. And then to cap it off, Larry and I have the same birthday!]
[McCoy house in Worthington . . . ]
[Obert house in Victoria Heighs, Alex, c. 1950 . . . ]
[Obert/McCoy house mid-60’s, yes, we added a 2nd floor in the early 60’s.]
[Back to current times, we returned to Pupuseria & Restaurant Crystal (remember it was closed on Saturday) to pick up some Salvadoran pupusas for the road.]
[Adios, Worthington!]
[On Highway 60 to New Ulm, passing Brewster, population 473.]
[Highway 60 parallels a railroad track – there are grain elevators every couple of miles.]
[Maybe the Heron Lake water tower?]
[Another nice mid-sized town.]
[And back to the little guys – population here is 87.]
[And we’re at the next overnight destination . . . ]
[This is “Weakie’s” (3rd from the left) homtown.]
[Some nice TOPOGRAPHY heading into town. The city has a population of 13,522, very Alexandria-like.]
[Displaying the German heritage.]
[We were looking for a place to lunch on the pupusas we brought from Worthington . . . ]
[This was a little park at the base of the road into Schell’s Brewery . . . ]
[Unfortunately, we should have eaten the pupusas when they were hot and fresh!]
[Heading out of the park . . . ]
[And there’s the little covered picnic area where we noshed . . . ]
[The road up to Schell’s. It was a Sunday on a holiday weekend. No chance to find parking anywhere near the place, so we didn’t partake.]
[A park . . . it says so on the sign.]
[Our windshield sticker was good to the end of the month . . . ]
[Hot summer day, holday weekend . . . ]
[Why was everything closed?]
[A unique natural swimming pool – never seen such before?]
[And working our way back to town . . . ]
[“Weakie” has been eating here for 70 years – always gets the b-b-que ribs, french fries, and cole slaw . . . ]
[We ordered wine – our server noted that people here drink beer, not wine! Ha!]
[We split an order and opted for hashbrowns rather than fries . . . ]
[Well worth the long considered visit – the cole slaw was the best ever, crispy and vinegar based!]
[A nice trend we’ve noted in cities this size – downtown corner art.]
[It’s a clock, it’s a musical clock, it’s a big musical clock with wooden people that pop out of it. … New Ulm’s Glockenspiel is a 45-foot-high musical clock tower with performing animated figures; carillon with 37 bells. (www.roadsideamerica.com]
[Where we just dined . . . ]
[Across the street from where we just dined . . . ]
[New Ulm history . . .
[One of these is a real person . . . ]
[Cool building with a supposedly cool restaurant?]
[Again, German heritage . . . ]
[“Weakie’s” favorite radio station because it’s “junk” spelled backwards (I believe for New Ulm Journal?).]
[We will do a final tour of New Ulm in the morning before heading to Glencoe.]
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. ~ Groucho Marx
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