Today has been a bit brighter. For the first time in days it's not raining and though cool there has been some sunshine. We started the day by taking up the kind offer of a town tour from Boomer, a local fish guru. He turned out to be a very entertaining bloke who showed us much of his town some of which I know we wouldn't have found on our own. There was a gift box at Boomers waiting for us from Matt Pederson who, as he explained in a note, would've loved to sh...

Aug 19th Just for a change it was raining this morning lol We left our hotel and headed north. Passing the twin cities we could see little through the dense clouds and heavy rain. Past the city we found ourselves again passing lush fields and corn fields accompanied all the way by grey skies and rain. After the warm temps of the first phase of this years holiday it's now like our winter temps, 10-18C most days. The shorts and thongs have given way to jeans an...

Not a lot has been happening since the last blog. We left Chamberlain SD and drove to Minneapolis Mn. The whole drive it rained, the sky an unrelenting grey. We passed a lot of crops, mostly soy beans and corn used to manufacture bio-fuels. Most of the small settlements were centred around the railway line and the processing plants. We arrived in Minneapolis and the only room the hotel had left was a jacuzzi suite for $150 a night, I asked for and and received ...