Cleaning out the camera: A stop sign and snowplow school

A few Roadguy readers have reported that they've had problems finding my columns on startribune.com, so below are links to the two most recent ones. The first one is about...

... this mysterious non-intersection in Woodbury, which, as you can see, has a stop sign but no cross street. Click here for the full column, which also discusses squeegees and the 35W bridge parts along the Mississippi River, which I visited during recent snow flurries:

(There's really no reason for you to check them out in bad weather -- they're going to be there for a while.)

Strangely, it wasn't snowing a few days later when I traveled to ...

... the state's snowplow boot camp near Little Falls (column here). It was held at Camp Ripley, where National Guard members get trained to deal with things like improvised explosive devices. The whole 55,000-acre facility is safety-oriented, as you can see by this sign on a road just inside the main entrance:

It'd be bad form to crash into a tank while you're gabbing away.

I really did clean out the camera -- deleted something like a thousand photos -- so there'll be more soon...