More Pictures!

Since Sybil is blog-challanged and gave you 2 of the same shots last blog....here are some pictures.....for your pleasure, we're sure!
1) Lunch break in Garrison on Mille du Lac, MN
2) Peter at the "Mighty" Mississippi River headwaters, Lake Itasca, MN
3) Peter & Sybil on Lake Itasca hike, MN
4) Peter & Sybil at Pike's Peak, CO
5) Sybil at the Miss. River headwaters

Northern Minnesota!!

We are still alive and well and in Northern Minnesota in the Lake of The Woods area..which happens to be the name of the beautiful RV park we are staying in. We left the FMCA rally and returned to the RV park in Woodbury near St. Paul East for 2 nights....met some great people so Sybil got in a lot of good walking (and Peter biking) to combat the ever-increasing poundage that we seem to be experiencing! On the way here, we spent one nite in the RV park from hell. It was right on Cass Lake near Bemidji, but we made a last minute call and got the last slot, by the bathroom - not the lake and totally infested with mosquitoes....clouds of them....so we are rather bitten up. One big plus there was our visit to Lake Itasca which is the very beginning of the headwaters of the Missippi....see the pix of us...you can wade in it! Another plus is the hokey Paul Bunyan statue in Bemidji..see pix! We're still sharing the driving, still speaking (most of the time!) and are about 10 miles from the Canadian border. If it stops raining, we'll go fishing! We'll be here for 4 nights then on to Duluth for a few days, taking the perportedly beautiful drive along Lake Superior to get there. After that we will visit our friends, the Vernons from SaddleBrooke, at their summer home in Hayward, WI. Did I mention we had dinner at a great St. Paul restaurant, WA Frost, with Pat & Mike Kotten, also from SaddleBrooke? It's very fun coming so far to see friends from home! Hey, gas is $3.82 (down from $3.96) around here now....gee, that factors out to about $286 to fill the 7mpg RV.....we truly have lost our minds but are sure having a good time at it!
More later!
Peter & Sybil

Still at it!

Here we are in St. Paul at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds with thousands of other RV's at the FMCA yearly rally/conventions...actually, there are typically 5,000+ RV's at this rally but, due to the high price of fuel, there are only 2,500+- this year. The fairground itself is a throwback to the 1940's. All the concessions are closed, of course, but the best part are the old signages, declaring hot dogs, corn dogs, brats, malts, beer, cotton candy, etc...very colorful with those round colored lights and cartoon characters. Minnesota is really beautiful, miles and miles of corn and grassy plains and lakes, lakes, lakes. We spent 4 days up around Alexandria (Miltona to be exact) at an RV park out in the country....really beautiful. We, of course (Sybil specifically) had to re-supply her wine cache with a few bottles from Carlos Creek Winery, Minnesota's largest and oldest they claim.....not bad wine either! At the moment, we are parked for the week, all lined up together side by side. We chose to have 30 amp electricity but no water is available and there is only one dumping site so we are pretty much "camping out". We continue to have new experiences everyday but are getting faster at the departure and arrival routines and haven't caused any problems on the road, so far. Peter and I pretty much share the driving and it's very cool to drive into an RV park as a woman and park it! We spent a day in St. Paul at the beautiful St. Paul cathedral....designed after that of the Vatican....we hope to go to a Twins game this Friday after the convention.

More later, we miss everyone but love this lifestyle! HOpe the pictures attach..if not, We'll attach them separately.

Sybil & Peter

More later as we progress

Pictures!

Sorry...no pictures...the WiFi here is not strong enuff...maybe later!
S&P

Two Weeks & Still Rollin' Along !!

We left Cheyenne a week ago...did we mention that there is not much happening there?
South Dakota is absolutely beautiful despite the plethora of tourist attractions. Everywhere you turn, in the Black Hills/Badlands area are attractions for families at $10+ to explore; caves, dinosaur parks, petting zoos, trout fishing farms, mystery spots, fake ghost towns...not to mention the food; buffalo steaks, buffalo hamburgers, buffalo sausages, buffalo jerky...and then prime rib....chicken and fish not fried is hard to come by! We loved the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore & Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse Monument is the Ziolkowski family 22 story high 1948 work-in-progress that Chief Henry Standing Bear commissioned to comemorate the warrior of the same name at the Wounded Knee battle & the other famous warriors. It is privately funded by the family and the Lakota Indians....pretty awesome. Mt. Rushmore makes one feel especially patriotic around the 4th of July and the Badlands are a wonder of nature. We do love SD and it's big-time high on our list.....many of the RV parks are in pasture lands so there is lots of prarie grass, etc. We are off tomorrow toward Sioux Falls for an overnite then on the Minnesota for 2+ weeks. Part of this will be spent at the Family Motor Coach Assoc. rally for 5 nites at the fairgrounds....should be lots of Americana fun! By the way, Peter is getting to be quite the mechanic/handyman....we make a great team...I break things, he fixes them! More later as we progress!
Peter and Sybil