"Montblack" wrote:
Montblack - one mile from the Upper Mississippi River
45° 08' 38.27" N 93° 15' 39.64" W

Converting[1] that to something Google maps (or their "stand alone" program
Google Earth[2]) understands yielded 45.143964, -93.261011

Plugging that into Google maps yields:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.143964,+-93.261011

You know, I grew up in the Twin cities and for a while I lived not too from
where you now live:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.069797,+-93.157052

My wife and I moved around the U.S. some and we spent 7 years he
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=36.954444,+-121.877361

But after getting tired of California, we finally decided to move from
there to he
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=43.945775,+-122.858533

[1] decimal degrees = degrees + (minutes + (seconds/60))/60
[2] http://earth.google.com/