This scheduled stop on our journey was to drop off Jerry in Minneapolis so he could fly to his son's place in Kentucky and eventually head home to East Wenatchee. Jerry's cousin, Bob Tetrault and his wife, Linda, live in Apple Valley which is on the outskirts of Minneapolis/St. Paul. They were so hospitable to open their home to us for a couple of days ~ all four of us! I had forgotten what it was like to sit in a spacious livingroom to visit and to sleep whe...

This day started out cloudy as we got the trailer ready for the road. As we pulled out and crossed Devil's Lake by the causeway, the sky grew dark and it started to rain. The clouds and rain stayed with us most of the day, as we crossed the eastern North Dakota and into Minnesota. It was a pretty an ordinary day as we drove another 279 miles across the plains and into some forested areas of northwestern Minnesota. Roxie spent most of her time snoozing, being...