Blogs from Minnesota, United States, North America - page 5

The Educate Tanzania Team - "Team ETI" heads to Tanzania in just one week. The team met last evening with Jody at Borton Overseas in Minneapolis to meet each other and catch up on final details. Nine of us will head to the KARUCO Inauguration and Dedication Ceremonies which will take place on October 29, 2017. We can hardly wait. Follow along with Team ETI. Here is our itinerary for the trip: OCT 25 - Depart MSP for Amsterdam / OCT 26 - Arrive Amsterdam. Depart for Kigali (touchdown) then Entebbe, Uganda. Overnight in Entebbe / OCT 27 - Ground transport to Mutukula via Ben's Rentals and our friend, Ben. Meet KAD Partners at the Uganda/Tanzania border and ground transport to Karagwe. Reception in Kayanga. Overnight in Kayanga / OCT 28 - Tour of KARUCO - ... read more

blog 08-19-17 Albert Lea, MN Getting out of town today was a little struggle. The dogs were up before 7 ugggg, but it took a while til we were on the road. Both Ginnie and I had really good sleeps despite the train that rumbled through at 5 am with whistles blarring. Alfy was really scared and paced and whined but eventually went back to bed. The train engineer seemed to relish the idea of blowing his whistle at that hour. We had to drive to the dump station, dump, fill the water holding tank ( 40 gals) then hook up the car. Then it was on to the gas station to fill the tank with 44 gal of gas. Finally, at 9:45 we were on the road and traveled 315 miles to Albert Lea, MN ... read more

blog 08-17-17 Grand Rapids We made it! Our goal all this week has been to get to Grand Rapids, MN and 4 days and 1237 miles later we're here. We left this morning in a foggy drizzle after several inches of rain fell overnight. It is a real circus to walk 3 dogs and then get them cleaned off enough to bring into the house. Mother Nature helped with that problem by providing a huge puddle right outside the door to rinse the mud off paws. We took our time getting started and were off by 10:30 and ready for the detour in Superior. The campground owner had given us a map and directions as to how to navigate the construction. I sure hope this dear lady never leaves Superior if she thinks that was a ... read more

Hi Everyone We are still at Judy and Reuben's Farm,yesterday we went to the start of Mississippi which goes as far as the Gulf of Mexico. Had a picnic in the park. Today Kevin stayed home with Reuben to work on the Farm,and Judy and I went to town to shop and look around. The other night we all went Deer spotting,they come out later in day from the Forrest,we saw many of them,Deer hunting is a big thing here. Tommorrow we leave the farm and travel 5hours back to Minniapolis and stay the night,and next day Judy and I will go the the Mall of America!!!. We leave Monday flying at 8pm to New York. SK... read more

Hi Everyone We safely have arrived in America after travelling nearly 24 hours,our friends were there to pick us up,we hit the sack early,and we feel somewhat more refreshed this morning.we stayed at the Holiday inn Plus and they upgraded our room in it was a lovely spa bath which we thourougly enjoyed. This morning Judy and Rebuen took us to Minnesota State capital building,which was very impressive,lots of murals and paintings,quite a few of the Civil war,lots of large sky lights and stained glass.it cost 4 million dollars to build 2 centuries ago .the building from 2013 to 2017 was restored costing 310 million dollars its very impressive. We are on our way to Judy and Reuben's farm which is 5 hours away North,so we drove to a place called Duluth which was 2 hours ... read more