Today should be our last day of non-activity. It really is wearing sitting around without much to do. Tomorrow we can start putting things in bags and boxes for the move on Friday. The campground manager has offered us boxes for dishes and the like, so that will help. We've gone through all the cupboards and cubby holes and we pretty much need everything else that's left in the RV.
We did go out for lunch yesterday. We went to a home store to get a piece of plexiglass to cover the screen door right away in case Maggie decides she doesn't like being left in the new house when we go out for groceries or whatever. Today we found a funky restaurant in the old industrial area near the river in downtown Minot. They served good wood fired oven pizza but the place was way too noisy for us. We stopped at the Target for a couple of little items. That's been the excitement. Well, Maggie is keeping us entertained as all she wants to do is play ball. That takes up some hours of the day!
I did spend another several hours this afternoon on the computer, with the map next to me on the couch, plotting stops to get home. Every time I think I have distance figured out, there's no campground around, or if there is, we don't want to be there because of bad reviews. This time I started backward from Sparks which helped a little. The biggest issue right now is that everyone and their half brother are camping right now and especially next week. Got turned down by several places that I called for the weekend before the holiday. It's a bad time to be on the road if you haven't made reservations early. I did finally manage to secure places to stay from now until we get home. Rog will have to drive 3 days, rest a day, drive two days, rest a day, drive two days and be home. Home on the 3rd of July. It's about 1,500 miles from here to Sparks through Montana and Idaho.
We are estimating this trip will be a total of about 7,000 miles from start to finish and will have taken 66 days. We did spend 22 of them in Pensacola, FL, 5 in Houghton, MI, and 10 here in Minot, ND - so about half of them not on the road.
The campground managers here have been so great and very helpful. This has turned out to be a good place to have to sit for a while. I definitely will be writing some excellent park reviews for Good Sam and RVParkReviews for them. One of the real pluses has been that the wifi has been excellent. We are right next door to the office and the wifi antenna and we've experienced no issues with it at all. Rog has even been able to watch You Tube videos on some of the features of the new RV that we haven't had before. He's been studying!
Very windy and warm today - it got up to abut 82. We expect more wind tomorrow but cooler temps. Friday for the move it's not supposed to get to 70, which I think will be good because we will be working hard.
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