Thursday 4-21 Weather Delay

 

It’s raining!!!!

Every once in awhile weather impacts our trips and the last three days we have been impacted due to rain. As I mentioned the other day Larry is having difficulties in locating open campgrounds, normally this would not be a huge problems we would simply find other places to park for the night, however, when there is going to be a day or more of rain and it is cold we prefer to find someplace where we can plug into electricity and run our electric heater. When I said that we were having difficulties I really mean it is impossible to find private or public RV parks/campgrounds open here in Minnesota, many will open May 1st.

After searching around Larry finally found a casino on an Indian reservation with an open RV park, it is just a bit south of Minneapolis St Paul, Minnesota. There are almost 4 million people in the cities and surround area. I guess that is how they were able to build this huge casino, the gaming area would rival some of the casinos in Las Vegas. The RV park is nice, OK, better than nice, it is the nicest park we have ever stayed in, they even have an indoor RV wash with catwalks so you can easily wash the tallest parts of your RV. The casino is within easy walking distance but when you check in they give you a phone number to call and a shuttle will pick you up right at your site. Since I really need the exercise I walk back and forth but when it was raining I called them and a few minutes later they showed up, really nice. Of course they will also bring you back.

The rain is suppose to be gone tomorrow and we plan to return to our journey of following the Mississippi River to it’s beginning, we have less than 300 miles to go. The next couple of mornings are suppose to be in the 30’s, hope the rain doesn’t return since it does not appear we will be able to find camping with power. Life is Good!!