Our relationship with Mike and Pam dates back to üCamp17 and a joke we participated in when he told her he'd traded in their T@B 320 for our brand new 400. This year when we couldn't find enough time for visiting with them in Sugarcreek, we proposed stopping by...
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Overnight at Hansen’s
Hansen's is a Harvest Hosts site, so as members of the organization they granted us the privilege of staying on site parked next to the pond overnight. We weren't the only ones. Two other RV's rolled in just before yesterday's tour. Afterwards we all rearranged to...
Hansen’s Dairy Farm
This may well be the most incredible Harvest Hosts experience we've yet had. We are guests tonight at Hansen's Dairy. Jay stopped by our T@B and welcomed us the the family farm that his great great grandparents homesteaded in 1864. The family began raising Holsteins...
Heart of Iowa
This morning's route took us through the town of Hampton, Iowa with it's courthouse standing proudly in the center of town then past countless farms and fields, grain silos and barns adorned with painted quilts. In fact we tweaked our route this morning to see a...
Most Photographed
There are days when our seat of our pants method of trip planning hits a snag or two. This morning we left Camp Faribo, Faribault, MN intending to visit the Meredith Willson Museum in Mason City, Iowa but enroute we discovered that the site is closed on Mondays. Plan...
Snake River Fur Post
It's yet another Minnesota Historical Society site and it's just as exciting as every other MNHS site we've visited. We arrived at the Snake River Fur Post in a light rain on the Saturday before the Fourth and were the only visitors on the tour with Jackie, our...
Dancing with the Storm
It was the winds buffeting the trailer that awakened us at six this morning. The dark sky and and the radar images looked ominous but ultimately the storm passed just north of us and we got just a brief patter of rain. Now we're traveling east on MN-23 and not only is...
A 1917 Farm
Janet and Patty are living the dream on their Hobby Farm just a few miles northwest of Minneapolis but a world away from the big city life. Their barn was built in 1917 and their house a few years later. The family that lived here for decades came back for a family...
Lake Mille Lacs Band
Yesterday we picked up the brochure listings all the Minnesota Historical Society sites and realized we were within an easy drive of the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post. When we arrived the talk in the Four Seasons Room had just begun. Not getting...
Split Rock Lighthouse
Split Rock Lighthouse got added to our list of must sees after an enthusiastic suggestion from our üCamp friends, Pam & Mike. Our excitement about it elevated to the next level when we pulled in and discovered that it is a Minnesota Historical Society site. Ever...
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On our way south to our next stop, we paused in Sugarcreek to meet up with some of our friends at nüCamp RV, an amazing organization that we've been privileged to be associated with for the last fourteen years. After an afternoon spent with John, Julie, and Scott we...
Sojourn in Summit
Our destination when we departed western Massachusetts was northeastern Ohio to watch Peyton dance in a ballet production of Mary Poppins, hang out a bit with family, pick up some belongings from our storage area, and take care of some other personal business. There...
Mary Poppins
Peyton's been dancing for at least ten years and it thrills us every time we have the opportunity to watch here. Tonight she played a nanny, a band member, a panda, and a banker in a ballet production of Mary Poppins. We especially loved her brief solo with a...