While I enjoy all your content I have to say the "Forgotten towns off the interstate" is by far my favorite series. Small towns, a fresh cup of coffee. Perfect morning!

The house on 2nd Av. in Blooming Prairie is a 2 unit rental at present, $244,900. 1,635 sq.ft. Thanks a bunch for this tour. Sheriff Bob Fletcher in St Paul has a live show in yt and fb called Live On Patrol. You should try to catch it some Friday night. I've watched since the first show. He shows us the town, but not inside the beautiful buildings and churches. The low crime in the small towns is amazing! The cleanliness and character of the towns is very appealing. Both of your meals looked yummy! Safe, happy traveling!

The best thing about Blooming Prairie is the natural springs swimming hole. It's a pond surrounded by a sand beach with various platforms in the middle for diving and resting; Pine Springs Pool. There's 3 major employers in Dodge Center, the one you showed is McNeilus Steel which produces steel plates, bars, etc. for metal shops in a 5 state region, I worked there 30+ years ago. Then there's McNeilus Truck owned by Oshkosh out of Wisconsin, known for their cement mixers which they no longer make, though we produced over 1200 in one summer; it's all refuse trucks now. And finally Con-Tech Mfg south of town owned by the former McNeilus Truck family and they produce cement mixers.

A lot of small towns in my neck of the woods are like that, roads that abruptly end and then nothing but farmland. Blooming Prarie is a peaceful town, although the main road through there(highway 218) is horrible. I've been down those roads many times. I live fifteen minutes south of there in a town called Austin, near the Iowa border. My grandfather had a red and white 1957 Oldsmobile classic car that he used to drive in the Blooming Prarie parade on July 4th every year. I vividly remember riding in the back seat as a young boy in the mid 1990s, nearly thirty years ago, seeing all the people in the town waving, whistling and cheering as we passed through. It was a happier time, a happier America for sure. Thanks for sharing!

Love the way Blooming Prairie has utility lines under ground.

Thanks Joe for visiting Minnesota.

Your visits to small towns - off the beaten path - are my favorites. Keep em coming.

Nic is so kind and sweet woman, Joe you got you a great partner and thanks 👍 to the two of you for sharing your trips with us.😃☮️💙

Just loved the beautiful Catholic Church! It was amazingly beautiful! Nicole looked so pretty in her spring dress. Thanks you guys we love all your fun adventures!

I live in a small town/community called London in the United Kingdom, funnily enough we have a church here called St Paul's which was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in1668 and consecrated in 1697, it was finally completed in 1711 in the English Baroque style. Capital building definitely the finest yet!

Across the street from the Cathedral is the James J. Hill Mansion. Hill, known as the Empire Builder, which is the name of the Amtrak train from Chicago to Seattle. James Hill owned and built the Northern Pacific Railroad.

The cathedral and state capitol building in St Paul are both beautiful. Thanks Joe & Nic for your wonderful tours around the lesser known parts of the United States. 🎦🇬🇧🤗

Your video tours rarely cease to amaze. St. Paul Cathedral and capitol were utterly, amazingly beautiful. Would have never thought them of Minnesota. Mary Tyler Moore was all I had previously known about Minnesota.

All the town s are really clean and yard are neat, Thanks for the ride again, so enjoy our travel with you They don t make building like the last 2 any more , so beautiful for sure

I'm from North England and i enjoyed this,..

You need to check out the towns in southern Minnesota like Frost, Elmore and Blue Earth on the Iowa border. They are very close to Blooming Prairie. They are all literally ghost towns with only a few elderly people remaining. All boarded up. Only Blue Earth is still hanging in there but also decaying rapidly.

That Cathedral in StPaul is beautiful. It's just (as you stated) incredible. Such ornate & detailed. Very unique indeed. An builders challenge but an architect 's dream. Tks Joe & Nic for the tour. Very interesting places in this video .

I live in rural southwest Minnesota near a town of the same size. It’s farm country here too, but our side of the state is fairly flat prairie. I live near Tracy.

244900. for the two story house in Blooming Prairie. There are so many pretty towns in Minnesota but those long winters would be tough.

as you were driving down the dirt roads brought back memories of when I visited my cousins in pine island minnesota. My uncle drove us o those roads on the farm tractors on those dirt roads and it was fun. This was back in 1976.

I live about 35 to 40 miles west of Blooming Prarie. They also have a Dollar General. The roads are so bad because most of the state resources are kept for the Twin Cities. The Big plant in Dodge Center make cement trucks and other work type trucks

I have followed you ever since you left Dallas. Thanks for showing the small towns. I grew up in a small town in the 50's and there is a lot to be said for raising a family in a small town. One thing that they all seem to have in common is that you don't see any new houses.

Joe thanks for showing us places we will never see I really appreciate your way of explaining the stats and showing us the unique side of things I wish you and your wife safe travels I hope you both are enjoying the adventures and good food all over America and beyond

Absolutely gorgeous building lotta fine detail beautiful thank you for this video Joe never have I seen anything like it absolutely beautiful breathtaking❤ and the rotunda is absolutely beautiful too❤

Hello from the UK-so interesting. It's the sheer scale of everything over there that blows my mind-that road between the towns with nothing for miles and miles....this is the America i'd like to visit.

Thanks for posting, Joe. I'm from Minnesota. Havent been back in 20 years. Hope you enjoyed your trip!

205 2nd St SW Blooming Prairie, MN 55917 $244,900 4 beds • 2 baths • 1,635 sq ft

If you are coming to Madison Wisconsin, I would recommend to eat at "The Old Fashioned" on the Capital Square.

American cities are so beautiful. Beautiful cities, beautiful people. I keep watching the videos on this channel and dreaming about how wonderful it would be to live in this country. I'm very jealous of you. Cheers from Brazil.

Excellent.

This was as always beautiful to watch. Thank you guys for sharing your travels with us all ❤

I love watching you guys on your adventures! Thank you for keeping me entertained and for all of the information you share. I’ve learned a lot!

Another beautiful video thanks for sharing joe and Nic regards from London England 👍

That church and the capitol building were beautiful. Nice towns! I went to the very southwest part of Minnesota on that 2018 road trip near the Iowa and South Dakota borders. It was a town called Hills, and I played disc golf there. I just found the course…lol.

Wow - beautiful places and buildings, especially the cathedral, the Capital building and the abandoned white church you called a work of art (agree).

As a 67 year long resident of St.Paul glad you enjoyed our low crime and beautiful capital and cathederal.

Absolutely lovely cathedral!!!

Excellent quality videos and historic info. Love the restaurant reviews. I look forward to seeing Nic bopping around.

Nice ride through small town USA . The last CHURCH was absolutely beautiful. See you next week.👍❤️❤️

Loved this, am from the capital city. Have been away almost 15 years. Was in capitol as a child. The cathedral is indeed magnificent. Was there for a 1975 graduation class sang in the choir. Was quite the deal. My class the following year was not able to use the structure for its graduation. What a bummer! I was not able to see those towns you were at in southern part of the state, so appreciated your tours of them. Thank you! Nicole looked wonderful, as well! You both are good folks.

The Blooming Prairie school nickname is the "Awesome Blossoms". Dairy Queen serves an Awesome Blossom Blizzard.

Love your food segments as well as the travel segments

Road salt and snow plows eats up those roads.😔

Joe if you are heading east you might enjoy Beaver Island, you can take your car by ferry to the island. It has a small town on the North end and some interting history. Chack it out, I've been there a couple of times. Love your videos.

Every video has been a pleasure. Great commentary and information for each place. Love seeing how diverse each state is, great work again!

Great show....especially Orygun and Minnesota 🙂

My son and daughter-in-law were married in the Cathedral. Very beautiful building. A bit of movie trivia. In the 1980 movie Foolin’ Around, Gary Bussey flies a hang glider through the huge rose window in the front of the church or at least it appears that way courtesy of Hollywood special effects.

If you swing through southeast Minnesota, stop in rushford. They have a great lefse shop and you can get authentic Scandinavian food! It’s called norseland lefse

thanks joe and nicola from scotland

OMG.. Thanks for sharing your experience.. Historical buildings are just magical... enjoy 🍻🇦🇺

Up at this latitude, spring has just started to really bloom this past week! Mid May. And it rolls into summer and its gone in 4 months! But if your from the Detroit,Chicano Windsor latitude, springs starts in late March or early April,with tulips and daffodils ! If you missed those ,just drive north in May,and its like getting spring tulips and daffodils and spring all over again ! Further north of North Dakota into Regina,Saskatchewan spring started in June ,when I was there 2015! The trees just started to bloom! Growing up in Windsor, Ontario, winter was pretty much done by end of February! Its definitely a lot warmer these last few years,as I returned home,after 17 years away and we had no snow in march,and the flowers were popping! Just thought I'd mention this,because since you're from Texas, spring would be a lot earlier based on latitude and not many people would know that!

The church is awe inspiring... capitol building, a work of art ... ( my first thought when you visited St. Paul....the Mary Tyler Moore show) ... be safe...looking forward to your next post.

I live about four miles from the St. Paul Cathedral but have never been inside it so thanks for giving me a look inside. I have been in the capital building, though, but that was many years ago.

Your brakes are squealing, Joe. Great towns. The crime rates are probably low because the cold winters keep the riffraff out. The long cold winters might increase the violent household crime.

When you walked into the cathedral I could hear angels singing. Then when you walked into the capital building I could hear angels singing. 😇 Simply spectacular. Thanks so much.

Hi Joe Thanks for the video. The beginning and the end of video has a surprising contrast. Waiting for the next video. Good Luck!

The prettiest part of MN IA WI IL is the Driftless region, like a mini Appalachia the size of WEst Virginia

I enjoyed your video. Minnesota is one of six states that I have not been to yet. I hope to visit someday!

These small beautiful towns, I love this! Nic's dress and Coach bag very pretty

You should have drove through New Ulm Minnesota a beautiful German town with herman the German and the glockenspiel

Really love the flags at the school!! They would be a good example from all the other schools in the country!!

I wouldnt really say Dodge Center is a forgotten town. I use to live in Rochester and I know many folks that know Dodge Center really well, plus live there and commute to work everyday to Rochester. Yes its a small town but it's honestly slowly going to grow in population like Kasson and Byron cause of Rochester getting bigger. If you want to go remote next time consider Millville, Elgin, or even Hammond. I live by Millville out in the country now for several years and I can confirm hardly ANYONE knows about Millville unless I say Plainview or Zumbro Falls. Check it out next time. I would say these small towns have a lot to offer. Very homey from everyone knowing each other and you definitely get that small town feel. Plus its beautiful because we're down in the valleys than Dodge Center

Beautiful, looks so peaceful. I can just imagine how wonderful the sense of community is in those towns. Thanks again for sharing.

Fabulous Capitol Building!

I was born in St.Paul and have lived here pretty much all my life and I've never seen the cathedral up close or inside. Very beautiful.

Great video as usual you need to drive through Winona has some of the most beautiful homes and a beautiful drive following the great Mississippi safe travels God Bless

Wow, that is one beautiful capitol building, awesome cathedral too. It's nice to know that there is not a lot of crime in those small towns. The police have more time to rescue cats out of trees. Thanks Joe and Nicole, much love as always.

Loved this, thank you!

Great Video ....thank you very much from Switzerland ...keep on with the good work 👍

Hi Joe and Nic, that Cathedral is beautiful. The Capitol is beautiful as well. Tyfs 🤍

Been to Minnie love it so clean .LOVE LOVE LOVE the pastries!

I was raised in the farming railroad town of Willmar, Minnesota. The railroad would set up water stops for the steam engines. Since the train was stopped, they would set up depots for loading and offloading freight. Therefore they established towns in those locations and named them.

Wow! Nicole your looking good.

Ah you were in my neck of the woods. Almost thought i saw my dads truck in the part of the video in west concord. Lol Thank you for visiting our lovely state.

Spring is huge for grade school field trips to the capital. Big deal for small town kids to bus in and see it. When I was in 5th grade we got on the bus at 6am to go down. That and the history center plus landmark center was a full day of amazing buildings. ( New history center now 😢)

I am absolutely loving your KZfaq channel. You just left North Dakota now I’m watching this one and I have been on Zillow looking at house prices. Thank you so much for your beautiful tour.

Again Joe & Nic! Awesome travelling with you. I appreciate you both so very much.🥰 That was some Cathedral ! 😲 I'm a big fan of American/Canadian flags so that road along the school was a delightful sight. Cheers!

The best thing about BP is the people. They always pull together for each other. They still have their own schools and fully support them. ❤️

Thanks for these videos❤

Blooming Prairie police must stay about as busy as the Maytag repairman. 🤣

Those capital buildings are beautiful it's no wonder politicians think of themselves as as ruling over us

Really enjoy your videos😎👍❤️

Amazing craftsmanship 😳

As a Minnesotan, be careful with your speed in Blooming Prairie. Notorious place for cops to sit and try and catch people speeding. I've been pulled over there twice for doing less than 10 MPH over the speed limit.

Was awesome to see you in my stomping grounds thank you for visiting the twin cities 😊

I really enjoy your videos and slam the info and looking around the towns and sometimes the restaurants with pricing if eating out in those areas!! I’m a native Floridians born snd lived there for 54 yrs with the exception of 9 months when my husband our son and myself lived in Black Duck Minn. pop. 600 , it is much farther north than you went, Black Duck is about 40-50 miles south of International falls up by Canada! We moved back to Florida after 9 months the snow started melting and we fled 🤣 to cold for a Florida family !! I now live in Ohio and have been here for the past 20 yrs. , I moved here to be near my son who moved to Ohio after college at Flagler college in St. Augustine Florida ! Happy travels guys and keep the videos coming ! God bless ❤️🙏🙏🙋🏻🌈🌈

Love all your videos l live in Australia and appreciate all your very informative tours .best wishes from Australia

Hi Joe and Nic! I live in Rochester and had friends and relatives in Blooming Prairie. I have a son and a cousin in the Twin Cities and there's a lot to do there. I believe the metro population is approaching 4 million( a little under that) and is about the 16th largest in the country. Now you're going to Green Bay,Wisconsin,another nice town. I also have cousins there. Gee,I should have gone with you and Nic. I could have seen half my family. Drive careful and stay safe you two.

Is that your brakes squeaking? Sounds like your rotors are glazed, probably from all the stop and go driving. Take care Joe!

Very nice video

Rural Minnesota was economically destroyed when the schools closed. It was one of the biggest mistakes. Today, small schools can survive with the high speed internet. As you saw, infrastructure Including safe clean water are in desire need. But in Waldorf, MN, we are not giving up. We call it "Progress on the Prairie!". We are igniting the town bringing people together! You are invited to see the Wagon Train stop on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 starting at 6 pm for an old fashion sleep over with nearly 30 old fashioned wagons pulled by horses. Enjoy Live Music! We have some amazing history here. Contact the Mayor at the city office to learn more

Glad you showed the crime statistics screenshot on this video. I like seeing those. THX for the great videos. You make me want to get out and travel

Great video content. What a spectacular Cathedral. The only thing Minnesota doesn't have is kitties!🙀😿

Very nice videos.

Great video. I couldnt help but notice that it may be time for a break job. :)

another great tour, i was surprised you didn't hit Northfield..luv u guys

Beautiful public buildings

Thanks for another great video. I was hoping for a visit to Rochester MN

That church is amazing!

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