Well, here we are, in a Minneapolis suburb called Maple Grove, 192 miles away from where we were this morning. We are parked and plugged in, alongside the Crystal Welding company building. We are here for them to complete the installation of the tow base plate, and reinstall the Air-force One, the brake assist device, on the Jeep so that we can tow it behind the Alfa. Craig brought the Accent here to have it removed before we traded it in. Since the RV dealer down in Sioux Falls messed up the appointment schedule for the base plate installation, and did not want to do the Air-force One work, we brought it all up here.
We drove up to see Judy, and down here from Itasca separately. I drove the Alfa and Craig followed in the Jeep. I really can't understand why many women say they are afraid to drive their RV's. Our Alfa is so easy and smooth to handle. Today was the first time I pulled into a gas station. I thought it would be scary, but I just took a look at the layout and knew where I needed to go. I may have moved slowly, but I had no problems. Just after that I had to make my first u-turn, and it too was no big deal. There was not any traffic, and a wide open intersection, but I think I could have done it under far worse conditions just as easily. When it comes to parking, we work together very well. Craig's strength is knowing which way to turn the wheel and mine is doing exactly what he tells me.
Once the Alfa was parked and plugged in, we took off for some much needed grocery shopping. My last shop was in Sioux Falls a week ago. We could have waited a few more days, but the need list was growing. We don't know if we will have a car tomorrow night, so we thought we'd better shop.
Maple Grove MN not only has a Trader Joe's, but also has a fabulous market called Byerly's. We were really spoiled by our markets in California, but this place is just as good as any there. We admit it. We are Foodies. We rarely eat dinner in restaurants. Sometimes we'll catch lunch in a restaurant or fast-food place. We don't mind paying premium prices for the best ingredients for home cooking. One of the things we were in search of were oyster mushrooms, and the other was Walnut Oil. Byerlys had both. Whole Foods, T J's nor any store we have been through in the last month had the mushrooms. Not even dried. I hadn't really looked for the oil lately.
Good food doesn't depend on exotic ingredients, but it is fun to find special things. We will be in or around larger cities for a few weeks, so shopping won't be hard.
Now ... If only I can find some fresh water chestnuts ... I was reading they are considered an invasive species in the Minnesota lakes. Till then, canned will have to do.
What should I do with the Wild Rice that Craig bought? Any suggestions?
At the Camel Farm, Julian CA
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Walk across the Mississippi
Although there are several places in northern Minnesota that claim to be the headwaters of the Mississippi, one place has been designated as such. There is a stretch of rocks between the lake and the start of the "river" and it is something many people, mostly children, walk across.
He was wearing his waterproof hiking boots. Most of the kids were barefoot.
Craig had to do it too.
He was wearing his waterproof hiking boots. Most of the kids were barefoot.
The rocks were a bit slippery. Challenge is good for the body and mind. Balance!
By this point he had attracted the attention of those of us on shore. We watched each of his steps, hoping he would not fall and hit his head on the rocks. Bloody water is disturbing.
OOPS!
A small cheer went up from the crowd when he returned to an upright position.
Several children came to his rescue.
Returned him to his leadership position, and escorted him to shore.
Fortunately the new Jeep has a cargo space suitable to carry soggy heroes back to camp for dry clothes.
We finished the day with a nice boat ride around the lake and a late lunch at the Lodge.
A good time was had by all :-)
Monday, July 14, 2014
More Famous Than Mt. Rushmore
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| Ready to Take Off |
As they say, RV plans are written in Jello.
I won't bore you with an explanation of why we decided to head northeast instead of west, but the fact is we decided to skip Mt. Rushmore for now and head to Minnesota instead.
Most of my fellow RV friends know who's living there this summer.
Someone more famous than the four stone heads:
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| Merikay, Judy Bell, Craig
Judy is a wonderful retired teacher who has spent many years volunteering at Wildlife Refuges thoroughout the country. She lives, and travels, with her "wild child" dog Emma in their 38' Winnebago. They spend about five months in the North, currently Tamarac Wildlife Reserve in Minnesota, and five months in the South. Judy is well know in the RV blogging community for her excellent bird photography and her down-to-earth daily blog. My best description of Judy is that she is real.
I found Judy's blog, Travels With Emma, almost four years ago. She has been an inspiration and role model for me in many ways. Perhaps it is because she doesn't "sugar coat" anything, but doesn't complain or grouch either.
We were delighted to meet her, and delighted to find that in person she is no different. What you read is what you get!
We had always planned on visiting Judy someday, and hoped she would spend a day with us. I knew she had had a lot of visitors this summer, but when we contacted her, she replied with a welcoming email telling us she would be working at the Visitor's Center on Saturday afternoon, but would be happy to take us on a tour of the Reserve on Sunday!
We drove from Sioux Falls, SD to an RV park across from the Itasca MN State Park on Friday. Met Judy at the VC on Saturday, and had a wonderful day with her on Sunday:
 
Driving a Reserve-owned truck, we were able to see some of the back road areas where the public is not allowed. Judy completed a couple of her usual jobs, restocking kiosk pamphlet boxes and picking up trash while checking for downed trees along the trails. So the use of the truck was "official."
So many ponds and lakes! This was one of many postcard views we stopped to enjoy.
I liked the shapes of the shoreline and the weed mat in the water. The water was crystal clear, and we could see the vegetation gracefully swaying in the currents. This picture was taken from a small but sturdy wooden bridge on the Otter Tail River.
At one of the bridges Judy showed us claw marks and tufts of black hair caught in the rough wood of the bridge rails. It was from where the bear rub to scratch their backs.
We saw more wildlife with Judy than if we had been alone, but everything we did see was pretty far away. That was OK. If you want to count on seeing animals or birds up close, go to a zoo. Just driving around and seeing the natural habitat was remarkable. Judy pointed out an Osprey nest with young, an Eagle nest, also with young and the parents in the distant sky. We saw beaver lodges, Trumpeter swans, and loons. Later in the evening we heard the loons while having a nice cookout at Judy's RV.
Along with the bear hair, she showed us other evidence of other unseen wildlife. This was twice the size of any domestic dog poop we have ever seen.
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| Wolf Scat, This puppy wasn't eating Purina! |
Thank you, Judy.
We will visit the stone heads another time. Probably next summer when we wander through Yellowstone.
Making plans is fun. Being able to change them is priceless.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Sioux Falls SD and Pender NE
We are still at the Sioux Falls county fairgrounds.
That is not bad. The weather here has been very pleasant and the satellite reception excellent so Craig could watch all the World Cup games this week. Only the final game to go. I have had time to rest and recover from my "flu," which took a bit longer than I expected. One good thing is Craig did not get it too. That means it was not something in our water supply, nor food-borne. We both eat and drink the same stuff.
We are done with all necessary paperwork and could move on. But are waiting for the baseplate to arrive from Blue Ox at our next destination, so the Jeep can be set up for towing. It should be here today, Thursday.
Tuesday I was well enough for us to go out on a little outing. We went to the Falls Park to actually see Sioux Falls. Because there has been a lot of upstream rain and runoff, the river is carrying a lot of sediment and the falls showed a range of colors.
From the park observation tower we could see St Joseph's Cathedral and decided to take a look at it as well.
Craig commented that he was able to get both the Jeep and the Church in one shot! How many Jeep pictures do you think we will have in the next few months? I have decided the Jeep is a "he" and will probably be called "the Jeep." That fits our linguistic style.
Unfortunately we were unable to see the main part of the church because a mass had just started and we do not "sight see" at such times, out of respect for the beliefs of others. We were able to peek thru the crack between the doors and see that it was a beautiful and amazing place, but were not inclined to wait until the service was over to enter.
After we get the Jeep towable, we plan to head west and see the Badlands and Mount Rushmore. I am really looking forward to it.
Because I got a bit behind on my postings, I am going to add an older, unpublished post, onto this one. We actually went to Pender Nebraska and spent five nights there before coming to Sioux Falls. But I did not get my thoughts together quickly enough. Writing about the places we have been is part of why I keep a blog. Sometimes it takes a few days for a post to be complete enough to publish. That is what happened here.
So perhaps I should call this section: "Looking Back at Pender."
Pender, Nebraska, is about 35 miles from Sioux City, Iowa, not to be confused with Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 168 miles to the North, where we went to get our mail forwarding services and residency established.
Pender is the home of the Blue Ox tow bar system. I first wrote "and not much else". But upon looking thru the Chamber of Commerce Directory, I find there are many things in Pender that I missed on our initial 10 minute drive around town. It is a true small town, midwestern village. The older homes in town are mostly well kept, each one of a kind, and only a few that are run down or empty.
Outside of the town residential area there are several developments of larger new homes.
The Chamber directory lists:
5 Ag Sales/Applications (Farm fuel, fertilizer, feed, crop dusting)
9 Auto/Truck/Tractor repair etc.
8 Churches
4 Feed lots (not in the center of town)
2 Lawyers
1 Funeral Home
1 Hospital
and
4 Bars
In addition to Blue Ox there are four other manufacturers. They seem to make mostly farm-related products.
The small downtown area is mostly-closed storefronts. But there are two gas stations, one small grocery, and a bowling alley. There is a water tower, and a K-12 school with a very nice playing field.
I want to be totally fair to Pender. Except for the first few years, we have always lived some distance from cities. Driving 10 to 20 miles to go to a store was part of our way of life, and the lack of services is not a big deal. I was told that many of those nice new homes around are owned by local farmers. They commute to the fields.
Pender seems like a nice place to live. You just don't want to visit for very long if you want entertainment or shopping opportunities. I was impressed by several of the young people I talked to. Young as in less than 35. They had left Pender for college or other jobs, but had come back. Not everyone likes the big cities.
We stopped here as a midway point on our way up to South Dakota.
The Blue Ox company has full hookups for customers. (Free if you are having service, or $15 per night if not.)
The RV sites are wide open. Any trees are saplings that have just recently been planted. I figured we would be here for one, maybe two nights, but when we arrived Craig told me he wanted to stay for five nights. Seems there were two World Cup games per day for four days. He was happy to stay put in a place with good satellite reception.
That was fine with me. We have lots of time to travel. The weather is much cooler than it was down south. We did have one day with some really exciting clouds, and one day where we went to the tornado shelter in the factory three times. No tornado, just a warning. For one of the warnings, the Sheriff came to our RV just after the Blue Ox manager called us on the phone! It gave me an opportunity to talk to some of the women who worked there, other than the office staff.
On less blustery days, there, however I did take several nice walks by myself while Craig watched soccer. On one, I went up a dirt road and visited the local cemetery.
I find old graves interesting. The oldest I could find here were in the 1880s. One family group I found touching in a strange way. It included a line of newer stones that had probably been added by present day relatives. They were for a man, his children, and his two wives.
There were six babies, ranging from zero to nine months of age. The last died on a July 3rd. The mother died on August 3rd of the same year. That was 1892.
I think about her. Did she die of childbirth complications, or just from a broken heart?
The man's second wife was 24 years younger than he was. I wonder how long it was before he took that second wife, and how he found her. There was no death date for her on the stone. Did she move on after he died? No children of hers were buried in the plot. I wonder how the story ended.
So all in all, I give Pender, Nebraska a thumbs up as a good place. There are many good places in this country. I hope we can get a taste of many of them. If this were just a road trip or a vacation, we would have just zipped thru. But we are full timers now. We have time to see and appreciate it as one of many.
Life is good.
That is not bad. The weather here has been very pleasant and the satellite reception excellent so Craig could watch all the World Cup games this week. Only the final game to go. I have had time to rest and recover from my "flu," which took a bit longer than I expected. One good thing is Craig did not get it too. That means it was not something in our water supply, nor food-borne. We both eat and drink the same stuff.
We are done with all necessary paperwork and could move on. But are waiting for the baseplate to arrive from Blue Ox at our next destination, so the Jeep can be set up for towing. It should be here today, Thursday.
Tuesday I was well enough for us to go out on a little outing. We went to the Falls Park to actually see Sioux Falls. Because there has been a lot of upstream rain and runoff, the river is carrying a lot of sediment and the falls showed a range of colors.
From the park observation tower we could see St Joseph's Cathedral and decided to take a look at it as well.
Craig commented that he was able to get both the Jeep and the Church in one shot! How many Jeep pictures do you think we will have in the next few months? I have decided the Jeep is a "he" and will probably be called "the Jeep." That fits our linguistic style.
Lightning did not flash in the skies when Merikay entered the cathedral.
Unfortunately we were unable to see the main part of the church because a mass had just started and we do not "sight see" at such times, out of respect for the beliefs of others. We were able to peek thru the crack between the doors and see that it was a beautiful and amazing place, but were not inclined to wait until the service was over to enter.
After we get the Jeep towable, we plan to head west and see the Badlands and Mount Rushmore. I am really looking forward to it.
Because I got a bit behind on my postings, I am going to add an older, unpublished post, onto this one. We actually went to Pender Nebraska and spent five nights there before coming to Sioux Falls. But I did not get my thoughts together quickly enough. Writing about the places we have been is part of why I keep a blog. Sometimes it takes a few days for a post to be complete enough to publish. That is what happened here.
So perhaps I should call this section: "Looking Back at Pender."
Pender, Nebraska, is about 35 miles from Sioux City, Iowa, not to be confused with Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 168 miles to the North, where we went to get our mail forwarding services and residency established.
Pender is the home of the Blue Ox tow bar system. I first wrote "and not much else". But upon looking thru the Chamber of Commerce Directory, I find there are many things in Pender that I missed on our initial 10 minute drive around town. It is a true small town, midwestern village. The older homes in town are mostly well kept, each one of a kind, and only a few that are run down or empty.
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| Typical Midwest Suburban housing development |
The Chamber directory lists:
5 Ag Sales/Applications (Farm fuel, fertilizer, feed, crop dusting)
9 Auto/Truck/Tractor repair etc.
8 Churches
4 Feed lots (not in the center of town)
2 Lawyers
1 Funeral Home
1 Hospital
and
4 Bars
In addition to Blue Ox there are four other manufacturers. They seem to make mostly farm-related products.
The small downtown area is mostly-closed storefronts. But there are two gas stations, one small grocery, and a bowling alley. There is a water tower, and a K-12 school with a very nice playing field.
I want to be totally fair to Pender. Except for the first few years, we have always lived some distance from cities. Driving 10 to 20 miles to go to a store was part of our way of life, and the lack of services is not a big deal. I was told that many of those nice new homes around are owned by local farmers. They commute to the fields.
Pender seems like a nice place to live. You just don't want to visit for very long if you want entertainment or shopping opportunities. I was impressed by several of the young people I talked to. Young as in less than 35. They had left Pender for college or other jobs, but had come back. Not everyone likes the big cities.
We stopped here as a midway point on our way up to South Dakota.
The Blue Ox company has full hookups for customers. (Free if you are having service, or $15 per night if not.)
The RV sites are wide open. Any trees are saplings that have just recently been planted. I figured we would be here for one, maybe two nights, but when we arrived Craig told me he wanted to stay for five nights. Seems there were two World Cup games per day for four days. He was happy to stay put in a place with good satellite reception.
That was fine with me. We have lots of time to travel. The weather is much cooler than it was down south. We did have one day with some really exciting clouds, and one day where we went to the tornado shelter in the factory three times. No tornado, just a warning. For one of the warnings, the Sheriff came to our RV just after the Blue Ox manager called us on the phone! It gave me an opportunity to talk to some of the women who worked there, other than the office staff.
I find old graves interesting. The oldest I could find here were in the 1880s. One family group I found touching in a strange way. It included a line of newer stones that had probably been added by present day relatives. They were for a man, his children, and his two wives.
There were six babies, ranging from zero to nine months of age. The last died on a July 3rd. The mother died on August 3rd of the same year. That was 1892.
I think about her. Did she die of childbirth complications, or just from a broken heart?
The man's second wife was 24 years younger than he was. I wonder how long it was before he took that second wife, and how he found her. There was no death date for her on the stone. Did she move on after he died? No children of hers were buried in the plot. I wonder how the story ended.
So all in all, I give Pender, Nebraska a thumbs up as a good place. There are many good places in this country. I hope we can get a taste of many of them. If this were just a road trip or a vacation, we would have just zipped thru. But we are full timers now. We have time to see and appreciate it as one of many.
Life is good.
Monday, July 7, 2014
Sick
I guess the reason I found the process of doing the paperwork for our address change so hard was that I was coming down with a bug. A flu. A minor sickness.
Fortunately it wasn't too bad. On the day we did our mailbox paper work and went to the DMV, I came home and wanted nothing more than to lie down for a nap. I am not a napper! But I slept on and off until the following morning. Craig made dinner, but I wasn't hungry. The second day I felt pretty good except for some persistent lower intestinal distress. I also had an intermittent headache. Something very unusual for me. I was able to go to and enjoy the fireworks.
By the third day I was getting dehydrated and after some really bad leg cramps, I pushed myself to drink, drink, drink. Water that is. I once again went from an afternoon nap to dawn with just a few awake times. Mostly drinking water and visiting the potty.
We had planned on doing something Sunday but I wasn't up to it.
The good thing is that it isn't a full blown "both ends flu." and aside from not wanting to be far from the bathroom, I'm doing OK. The bad thing is it is now four days into it and I don't think there is much left in my system. The good thing is I've lost four pounds. The bad is I know that is only food and water and as soon as I'm over this I will regain the weight.
Well, maybe. Two years ago it was a bad flu that kicked off my big weight loss. By the way, I've regained almost all that I lost, but maybe I can do it again with this as a starting point.
Right now, I'm taking a break from fighting with web pages that do not want to accept my new address. Craig had to make numerous calls over the weekend to get someone to "override" their systems. I have a call into our mailbox man to find out what is the problem. It shouldn't be this hard.
One step at a time!
Fortunately it wasn't too bad. On the day we did our mailbox paper work and went to the DMV, I came home and wanted nothing more than to lie down for a nap. I am not a napper! But I slept on and off until the following morning. Craig made dinner, but I wasn't hungry. The second day I felt pretty good except for some persistent lower intestinal distress. I also had an intermittent headache. Something very unusual for me. I was able to go to and enjoy the fireworks.
By the third day I was getting dehydrated and after some really bad leg cramps, I pushed myself to drink, drink, drink. Water that is. I once again went from an afternoon nap to dawn with just a few awake times. Mostly drinking water and visiting the potty.
We had planned on doing something Sunday but I wasn't up to it.
The good thing is that it isn't a full blown "both ends flu." and aside from not wanting to be far from the bathroom, I'm doing OK. The bad thing is it is now four days into it and I don't think there is much left in my system. The good thing is I've lost four pounds. The bad is I know that is only food and water and as soon as I'm over this I will regain the weight.
Well, maybe. Two years ago it was a bad flu that kicked off my big weight loss. By the way, I've regained almost all that I lost, but maybe I can do it again with this as a starting point.
Right now, I'm taking a break from fighting with web pages that do not want to accept my new address. Craig had to make numerous calls over the weekend to get someone to "override" their systems. I have a call into our mailbox man to find out what is the problem. It shouldn't be this hard.
One step at a time!
Saturday, July 5, 2014
A stressful Week
This has been a semi-stressful week for me. I just don't have the patience for following procedures and filling out paperwork that I had when I was younger. I kept hearing how easy getting your residency and registering your vehicles in South Dakota was, and really it was not hard, but it did involve time and paperwork!
We now have our mailbox, our new address, our driver's licenses, and the mail forwarding service is going to take care of registering the Alfa and our NEW TOAD:
Yup, hours after we arrived at the Sioux Falls Fair Grounds on Wednesday, we bought a 2014 Jeep Wrangler Sahara. The biggest dealer in town, Billion, was having a "sale" at the fairgrounds. The sale ended that evening. The purchase price of the Jeep wasn't particularly a "sale" price because they are very popular and sell quickly without great discounts. But we were satisfied. It is now Saturday July 5th. We don't actually have the Jeep yet because it is still at the dealership getting a protective package that includes an "Invisible Bra". Our poor little Accent got quite a few dings from rocks while being towed. We are also looking into some sort of additional protection.
Another bit of delay for our getting the Jeep "home" is we have to have the Air Force One (a braking system for tow vehicles) removed from the Accent. Craig called around Sioux Falls looking for a certified dealer, but couldn't find one who had an available time slot to do the removal, sooner than two weeks out! He did find one near Minneapolis, 250 miles away, and will be driving up there on Monday to get it taken off. Eventually it will be installed on the Jeep.
We have also ordered the required baseplate for the Jeep and will have it installed as soon as it arrives. Hopefully by Wednesday.
Meanwhile we spent much of Thursday and Friday doing address changes. I don't want to do a blanket Post Office address change because I want to see what still comes to our daughter's house. While making the address changes we have also finished up on signing up for paperless statements on the few accounts that we were still getting mail from. As simple as it seems, it still took time and an occasional hassle because many of the online systems we worked with would not accept our box number. It took humans to override their systems. Which of course required much time waiting on hold in telephone limbo.
I still have a few to do on Monday.
On Friday we went to the Fireworks display here at the Fairgrounds. Craig and I agreed that they were the best fireworks we have ever seen for some very basic reasons.
We didn't have to fight traffic to get there. We simply walked down the sidewalk of the Fairground along with all the people coming from the parking lot.
We didn't have to fight the traffic going home. We just walked back to the Alfa.
We had very good seats in the grandstands. No charge, unlike many we have been to over the years.
We were very close. In California it seemed they were so careful that they shot them off as far from the crowd as possible. Considering the free admission, definitely better bangs for the buck!
Before the actual fireworks there were hundreds of private ones shot up all around the city, particularly on the opposite side of the Fairgrounds so they were very visible. Private fireworks are pretty much illegal in California, for good reasons. Everything is so dry at that time of year the fire danger is too great to allow beer-sodden bulls to blow things up.
And finally the ground works were pretty good.
So if you are near Sioux Falls SD on a 4th of July in the future, consider the Sioux Empire Fairgrounds fireworks. Camping there is not bad either. Very basic, but acceptable.
We now have our mailbox, our new address, our driver's licenses, and the mail forwarding service is going to take care of registering the Alfa and our NEW TOAD:
Yup, hours after we arrived at the Sioux Falls Fair Grounds on Wednesday, we bought a 2014 Jeep Wrangler Sahara. The biggest dealer in town, Billion, was having a "sale" at the fairgrounds. The sale ended that evening. The purchase price of the Jeep wasn't particularly a "sale" price because they are very popular and sell quickly without great discounts. But we were satisfied. It is now Saturday July 5th. We don't actually have the Jeep yet because it is still at the dealership getting a protective package that includes an "Invisible Bra". Our poor little Accent got quite a few dings from rocks while being towed. We are also looking into some sort of additional protection.
Another bit of delay for our getting the Jeep "home" is we have to have the Air Force One (a braking system for tow vehicles) removed from the Accent. Craig called around Sioux Falls looking for a certified dealer, but couldn't find one who had an available time slot to do the removal, sooner than two weeks out! He did find one near Minneapolis, 250 miles away, and will be driving up there on Monday to get it taken off. Eventually it will be installed on the Jeep.
We have also ordered the required baseplate for the Jeep and will have it installed as soon as it arrives. Hopefully by Wednesday.
Meanwhile we spent much of Thursday and Friday doing address changes. I don't want to do a blanket Post Office address change because I want to see what still comes to our daughter's house. While making the address changes we have also finished up on signing up for paperless statements on the few accounts that we were still getting mail from. As simple as it seems, it still took time and an occasional hassle because many of the online systems we worked with would not accept our box number. It took humans to override their systems. Which of course required much time waiting on hold in telephone limbo.
I still have a few to do on Monday.
On Friday we went to the Fireworks display here at the Fairgrounds. Craig and I agreed that they were the best fireworks we have ever seen for some very basic reasons.
We didn't have to fight traffic to get there. We simply walked down the sidewalk of the Fairground along with all the people coming from the parking lot.
We didn't have to fight the traffic going home. We just walked back to the Alfa.
We had very good seats in the grandstands. No charge, unlike many we have been to over the years.
We were very close. In California it seemed they were so careful that they shot them off as far from the crowd as possible. Considering the free admission, definitely better bangs for the buck!
Before the actual fireworks there were hundreds of private ones shot up all around the city, particularly on the opposite side of the Fairgrounds so they were very visible. Private fireworks are pretty much illegal in California, for good reasons. Everything is so dry at that time of year the fire danger is too great to allow beer-sodden bulls to blow things up.
And finally the ground works were pretty good.
So if you are near Sioux Falls SD on a 4th of July in the future, consider the Sioux Empire Fairgrounds fireworks. Camping there is not bad either. Very basic, but acceptable.
Friday, July 4, 2014
So Far Behind
We are alive and well in Sioux Falls South Dakota taking care of business. I have fallen so far behind on my posts that I have just decided to scrap the unpublished, unedited ones and move on.
Happy fourth of July everyone. We are finding the heartland of America quite different from California. I appreciate the differences. I read a local newspaper yesterday. It was an example of freedom of speech.
This is a big country. A good country. I am glad to have a chance to meet the people.
Happy fourth of July everyone. We are finding the heartland of America quite different from California. I appreciate the differences. I read a local newspaper yesterday. It was an example of freedom of speech.
This is a big country. A good country. I am glad to have a chance to meet the people.
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