Our stops on the way to Minneapolis

We got up this morning heading as far as we could towards Minneapolis to see Victoria and Michial.  We were about to pass an exit when a sign caught our eye.  It said this was the exit for the Madison County Bridge, the bridge in the movie. Well, Van and I just love covered bridges and we especially loved that movie and decided that even though we knew we had a long drive ahead of us that we were going to have to stop.  So we exited and found the Welcome Center.  It was in an old church in St. Charles, Iowa.  The lady behind the desk told us that we should probably unhook the car and leave the motorhome in the parking lot because the bridge was about 28 miles in the town of Winterset.  So that's what we did.  As we entered the town of Winterset, we discovered the home place of John Wayne.  It was a little white house that was as cute as a button.  We did not buy tickets to get inside because we really were running short on time.  We then headed to the Madison County Bridge, which is called the Roseman Bridge.  In fact, this area had several covered bridges but we just didn't have time to see the others.  The last 4 miles was on dusty gravel roads.  There was a gift shop by the bridge and we had hoped to  buy some trinket  but unfortunately it was closed, so all we came away with were some beautiful pictures of the area along with a dirty car.  The backside of the bridge had been closed so there was no longer a road through the bridge.  The setting was as beautiful as the movie made it out to be.  The trip took us a total of a bout 2 hours for our little excursion but we both felt it was well worth it.