Sunday morning in Minneapolis started out at zero degrees.
We took our sweet time getting out of Pam's place (Thanks for the use of it, Pam). By late morning we had finished emptying our house's refrigerator and freezer stuff into the motorhome, and were ready to load the motorcycle and bicycles. That's when we encounter a slight delay. It seems that the HydraLift's parts really don't want to pump fluid at low temperatures. Without going into too much detail, let's just say they started working again after spending some time next to the Caterpillar diesel engine. After all loading was complete, we used the air horns to say "goodbye" to our home of 24+ years, and pulled out at about 1:30.
While the greater Minneapolis area has had multiple snow emergencies this year, and is running out of places to put it, we saw bare ground just into Iowa and saw 32F briefly on our dashboard thermometer as we went through Des Moines about sunset. We kept on going another hour or so, and have made up for our late start. We are almost to the Missouri state line, near the town of Osceola Iowa. It's still cold but the thermometer is heading up slightly. Maybe tomorrow we can see 40F??
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