Friday, June 29, 2007

Minnesota


We are actually at Prior Lake, MN. We are staying at a Casino RV park. It is by far the nicest place we’ve stayed. The streets are paved and the parking spaces are concrete. They have an RV wash and fuel right here in the campground. They even have Teepees here to stay in (see pic). It is inexpensive due to the casino and we don’t gamble so we come out OK. We are finding that some of the campgrounds say they are RV friendly, but have low branches that I have to watch out for or they scratch the coach. We are at a Native American Indian casino called Mystic Lake. I think each native from the tribe gets about $10,000.00 per month from the casino. They don’t have to do anything for it. We talked to a local businessman here who said many of their finances are a wreck. They don’t have any concept of spending.
We met a really nice couple while in Door County and they live here in the Minneapolis area. They were coming home and we were headed this way so we have seen them a few times while here. It is nice to have local people to teach us about the area. Their names are Joe and Carol.
We arrived here Tuesday and plan to leave Sunday and go to Kim’s Uncle Steve Saggars in Olathe, KS for the fourth of July and then on to Springfield, IL to meet for a week with a chapter of Full Time RV’ers from the Holiday Rambler group and then on to DuQuoin, IL to the International Rally of Holiday Rambler for a week. They are estimating 2000 campers – RV’ers that week. That should be interesting. From there we will probably come back up this way and resume our westward travels. We are really enjoying the trip. The weather has been good and we have met so many nice people.
Since we’ve been here we have been to the Mall of America twice (and probably seen only ten percent of it). We have stopped by this RV place to get some supplies and had a great talk with the owner. He tried to get me to trade coaches for a $450,000.00 coach – I don’t think so. There is a horse racing track here we might get to. We’ve never seen horse racing. We had to take our coach to a service center because the generator exhaust was smoking. Turns out it holds 3 quarts of oil and the guy who changed the oil before I left home put 6 quarts in it. They service center here drained three quarts and it is fine now.

1 comment:

Jeannie said...

We miss you guys and are praying that you guys stay safe and have tons of fun where ever God leads you guys. Remember we love you guys!
God Bless,
The Penningtons