Time to Stop for Awhile

We did it: returned to the land of frozen lakes and snow-covered ground (many places); taking 4 days to cover about 1100 miles.  For some hard-core over-the-road types that rate sounds easy, but we’ve been trying (unsuccessfully) to limit ourselves to about 200 miles per day.  We have also been lucky with the weather: the rain in Iowa last night held off until after we were parked, and did not turn into snow.  The snow that came to MN yesterday stayed west of our route so the roads were fine every day.  We expect to have another 2 or 3 nights with temps below freezing, but spring should show up here later this week.

We plan to stay near the Minneapolis area for a couple of weeks, while the snow up north melts.  David’s trailer is snowed in at the cabin.  A neighbor with 4wd and a plow couldn’t get it out today, in fact he got stuck in the 2 ft. of snow in our driveway and needed to be towed out!  So, we will wait until things melt and dry out before we go up there for the summer.

Meanwhile, there are lots of things we need to do, and people to see while we are here.  The trick is to scheduling everything.