Meadow, Cattails & Cracks. The Condition of Route 55 Northwest of Minneapolis Confirm Beat-Up Concrete Below.

"I’m happy to be riding back into this country. It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that. Tensions disappear along old roads like this. We bump along the beat-up concrete between the cattails and stretches of meadow and then more cattails and marsh grass."

Photo for ~6Mi West of Buffalo MN. needed. The cracks showing in the asphalt road confirm the “beat-up concrete” below. … Ann Lake and a huge National Wildlife Refuge hide (lurk?) behind this railroad embankment, and thus completely escape the traveler's attention.
….More obvious to the traveler is the very busy railroad track that runs along most of Rt55, northwest from Minneapolis. Beyond RR tracks are seen ancient leaning telegraph poles. These speak of times past and a different traffic that came this way. (Can you help with photos to illustrate this passage from ZMM? If you can provide marsh life and landscape photos of this area, please see Link Below at Contact Me.)
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( Photo = 102-0284 ...... ZMM Page = 003 …… WayPt = 000k = Photo at WayPt = 010w ~4Mi West of Lowry MN.)