I have been delinquent in posting because the keyboard case for my iPad broke! I absolutely despise typing anything but the minimum on a display keyboard, and I delay it outrageously. I tried to get one from Amazon, but because it has a lithium battery the options are limited. Sigh. We finally bit the bullet and had it delivered to Duluth yesterday, the closest pickup spot that would accept lithium batteries. Kevin needed a repair kit for the toilet too, so two birds with one stone! So there are lots of things to post. I will do it in two phases.
I ended the last post before we took the dinner train in Duluth. It has a museum, so we planned a 45 minute tour. That was NOT enough. What an absolutely fabulous place. Much of the rolling stock was under cover so it would be fine to even visit this location in the winter. Here is just a smattering.
We only got partway through! Then it was time to get the tickets for our dinner train. There were 4 person tables, and we shared with a couple from Fargo, ND. He was a rail fan that retired from the track maintenance crew of one of the big railroads, though I have forgotten which one! The ride was very nice, and the food was great. I thought I took a picture, but I didn’t, so you will have to imagine a fabulous salad, the beef rib, perfectly roasted potatoes, roasted carrots, and a crème de pot for dessert. Yum. Everything was perfectly cooked. I wish the trip was closer to the lake, but I guess the railroad wanted some space between it and that sometimes very story place!
We have driven the little Bronco all over the place. Not a fan. It took quite a while to turn off all the nanny features, but I managed. If I ever reach a point where I need car automation to stay in my own lane, I will give up my license! It wasn’t even very good at it, disconnecting whenever the side markers on the roads moved away from the lane or were just hard to read. And it could not stay well centered on curves, moving left then right before the road straightened out. Ugh. But it took FOREVER for the truck to get repaired!!! The one week we were promised turned into 3 weeks and 6 days. And even then the only reason it happened is because I have a friend who shall remain nameless that is high enough up in the state government they could put pressure on the dealer. They had asked earlier if they could help, and I said we were going to wait on the dealer a bit longer, but I finally gave up. Shockingly the truck was ready at 1:00 pm the day they took them to task. The holdup had supposedly been that they didn’t have a replacement driveshaft and couldn’t get one. Umm, guess there was one in the store room somewhere! I am still grumbling.
The lack of a vehicle to carry to RZR led to Kevin having some interesting rides between campgrounds. We stayed at the West Forty Campground until Monday 13 September. We then moved to back to the Lake Vermillion OHV campground. It meant a 45 mile drive on the trails for Kevin, but they were well marked and not too rough. We stayed at one site here until Thursday, 17 September when we had to move to another site. We are staying here until Monday morning now. Here was our view this morning.
Not bad, hey? However this lovely quiet campground is now getting full of some big groups that are much noisier than the ones here last weekend. Sigh. We have just been amazingly lucky, but it had to run out sooner or later.
We have taken some great rides in the RZR, but I am going to put that info in the next post. This is long enough as it is!