Well, we made it home today after all. When we were heading into Kentucky and realized that we would be stopping for the night at 2:00, we decided to punt and head for home! As I said to a friend last night—I miss my bed but we have a comfortable bed in the RV. I REALLY miss my high speed internet!! We pulled out of camp at 9:00 with...of course...our first stop being a nearby Walmart. The main reason for that stop was to check our tires to make sure we were OK before leaving the area where the shop that took care of us yesterday was located. Gun shy? Yes. We were heading out from there at 9:30. There was very heavy truck traffic all the way home today. This is the most of that ... read more

This isn’t our most exciting day, unless you are one of our complaining neighbors that think we need to hurry home...and you KNOW who you are... Just Saying... We pulled out of camp a little later than usual (10:15) mainly because we got into an interesting conversation with a Canadian couple that were in the site next to us. They have recently retired and were on their way to Newfoundland and then back to the Maritime Provinces and then more touring in Canada as they head back to British Columbia Province with no particular time frame. They were delightful, and we very much enjoyed talking to them. We crossed the border (the Mississippi River) into Illinois at 10:45, stopping for pictures at the Welcome Center. It was 80 degrees and humid...not boding well for our arrival ... read more

It was a beautiful morning as we pulled out at 10:00 heading south on I-35. We could just have dropped on down I-35 S to your house Laura...except you aren’t home!! We came the last few days from areas that were indeed “the land of 10,000 lakes” to vast fields of very flat land which then morphed into gently rolling hills full of prosperous looking farms. Our first stop was at the Iowa Welcome Center, and what a welcome stop it was! You can tell by the pictures that it is indeed unusual and the folks that worked there were tops. As you can also see from the pictures John found his new favorite friend who sold him a piece of Rhubarb Pie. Barb, you better quickly make sure you are still at the top of ... read more

We pulled out of camp around 9:30, making the local Walmart our first stop. We got fuel and then went into the store to pick up a few small items, including fresh raspberries and fresh sweet cherries.Yum! While we were in the parking lot we made a phone call to Melissa D to welcome her to the blog. Since we had sorta kinda learned a lesson about finding campgrounds in Minnesota during high season yesterday, we called a KOA fairly close to Minneapolis and made reservations for tonight. On our drive today we crossed the Mississippi River about three times—each time we crossed it, it was a little bit wider! Amazing. We passed many, many lakes which made one of our discoveries later make a little sense once we realized what we were looking at. We ... read more

First to finish up with yesterday: we took a walk by the Lake of the Woods after supper yesterday evening. You can see by the pictures that it was a very peaceful walk. As a matter of interest, I find the glaciated sculpting of the rocks that are the Canadian Shield to be fascinating. You can see by the pictures that tremendous pressure was put on these rocks by the glaciers that rode over them during glacial periods. They scraped everything down to the bedrock as they drove through, scratching the rocks as they went. This has always fascinated me. The striations are very clear. This morning when we got up the outside temp (wait for it Brently!) was 53 degrees with a crisp 60 degrees inside...until John got up and turned the heat on! We ... read more