Going West, but home is East!!

Sunday 18 August 2019

Woke up to the pitter-patter of rain drops and we have to pack up.  Good news is the rain quite around 8am but everything was dripping wet.  I cleaned and packed the outside stuff the best I could.  We hit the road about 9:40 heading to Valley City ND.  The sun came out and the ride was nice.  We needed to stop in Fargo for Diane to pick up her prescription from CVS.  We stopped at a Petro Service for lunch, diesel, and unhooked the truck.  The plan was for Diane to pick up pills and meet me at the North Dakota visitors center.  Problem one the drug store didn't take our insurance.  Problem two there was no visitor center.  By the time Diane caught up to me we were only 30 miles from Valley City.  I took the Moho into the camp ground and found us a spot, the last one.  The office lady told Diane they are never full, today were.  Diane pulled in, we got all set up, the sites are very close together and half of the sites are long term(permanent) people.  We had burgers on the grill and called it a night.

Monday 19 August 2019

We had breakfast on the grill what a beautiful morning.  We talked to some other over-nighters and turns out they were all heading home from a big FMCA Rally  (like 2000 coaches), no wonder the

Rest area that looks

like an old service station, nice!

place was full.  Valley City has a population under 1000 but is a center of activity in this part of northern ND.  We went to the hardware store it was like right out of the sixties. To sum it up they had the glass replacements for the top of peculators and the cash register you pushed the buttons and pulled the lever down and tax was calculated using the slide chart.  WOW.  Next was the antique shop, drug store and museum all in one building.  The museum was interesting a lot of dinosaur stuff from here in ND.  The interesting things here worked.  They had a old crank telephone (two actual) and you can call each other, a working player piano you could play and a quarter run train set.  We had a hard time finding a restaurant but did.  It was part of a hotel but the food was great.  Back to camp started packing for our trip to Lake Sakakawea to visit our friends Jack and Sandy tomorrow.

Tuesday 20 August 2019

We were hooked up and on the road by 10:30.  W

COE camp site, 

very nice campground!!

e took Interstate 94 into Bismarck up route 83 all nice roads to travel.  Traffic is light out here.  As we  closed in on the last 50 mile Diane got a text that Sandy had fallen, broke her arm and was in the hospital.  Oh no.  We arrived around 3:20, got set up and Diane got another text Sandy and Jack would be back soon.  They finally pulled in around six and Sandy was wore out.  Her wrist was broke and she had bone chips and crushed part of the wrist that needs a plate and screw to put it back into place, so she will have to go back in tomorrow.   We had sausages on the grill and called it a night.  By the way this is day three with no TV.

Wednesday 21 August 2019

Breakfast wraps cooked on the grill. Jack And Sandy stopped by on their way back to the hospital to ask us to look after Joey(their dog) until they returned.  We drove through Riverdale and Pick City small towns one on each side of the dam.  We did buy some fire wood and stopped to read some of

Missouri River, a preserve for 

White Pelicans, beautiful!!

the kiosks.  It turns out Lewis and Clark camped at this very spot in 1806.  So just a little more than two hundred years ago this was virgin land.  Back to camp, a walk for Rudy and Joey and waiting for Sandy and Jack to get home.  They were exhausted by the time they got home around 3:30.  The hospital is over an hours drive from here so it is all day until you drive in, wait, see doctor, tests and drive back.  We talked for a short while went home, had steaks on the grill with Texas toast. Yum.  I got the firewood out to start the fire and turns out it was almost to rotted to split and burn.  Burned it anyway it stank and mostly smoldered, but paid good money for it so we burned it.

Thursday 22 August 2019

We had another good breakfast today figuring it will be awhile before we have another opportunity.  Sandy had to go back once again to the hospital. We made a grocery run (some 40 miles) to the little town of Garrison home of Wally the Walleye, showing off the worlds Walleye capital of the world.   

Wally the Walley pic.

Diane found us a restaurant the 4-Seasons, turns out it is the only restaurant in town.  Food was good and Diane really enjoyed her bowl of (knoephla) soup.    Bought some fresh corn from a vendor and he guessed we were from out of town (go figure) PA plates.  Then the grocery store which was bigger than we expected, they even had Lactaid ice cream. Oh Yea!  Back to camp, talked with Sandy and Jack for awhile we had shrimp for dinner and sat by the fire until almost 9:30. Tomorrow is another travel day to Dickinson ND to meet Buddy and Teresa.

Last evening with Sandi and Jack.

                 

Great new Friends!!