We're almost to the Canadian border and our trip west across the heartland of Canada.  But before we cross the border this photo story finds us in the twin cities of Fargo, ND & Moorhead, MN.  This destination was the end of our days drive across southwestern Minnesota.  We stopped for the night after visiting the somewhat locally famous Fargo-Moorhead visitors center.  The next morning allowed us enough time to visit another very interesting location in Moorhead; The Hjemkomst Center. 

What is now a city museum and community center started out as one local school teacher's dream to create an authentic Norwegian Viking ship and sail it across the Atlantic ocean to recreate the Viking's original first discoveries of America.

So after a quick drive by of some space alien's local settlement in the Fargo-Moorhead area, were off to learn about ship building, crossing oceans in small vessels and authentic recreations that add validity to history.

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