We made it up to Minnesota in Mid June with no troubles.

Gary’s first job after we arrived was to get the RV in tip top shape

Lookin pretty good there Captain.

We’ve been to Gull Lake before and enjoyed it, plus with the the Golden Pass for the Federal Parks, we only had to pay $14.00 a night and that included electric. How’s this for a nice site

Gary even got to get some fishing in

Look at that form! Unfortunately the fish weren’t cooperating. So we had to go elsewhere to get our food. We decided to stop at a local place

The Bloodies were good but you really need to dip into your 401K to eat at this place. You can tell by the price and the young dock boys at their docks that they cater to the rich and successful. I am surprised they even let us sit down

They did have really cool picnic tables.

Now that’s what I want to see at the camping places. A picnic table for old people. Although straddling that seat might be difficult for some of the people I know (I won’t mention any names here ;)). But there is no butt shuffling on this table. You don’t have to try to get your legs under the low table. The seat is small enough to put a little cushion on it because your butt is getting bonier. I like it, I think I’ll write a letter to my congressman or senator or whoever.

So we did see something sad at the campground. There was this turtle

Big mother! My brother told me that this was more than likely a snapping turtle, not one of our friendly painted turtle

Even though there was blood on his shell the thing moved it’s head so I figured it was still alive. The shell looked pretty messed up and his head wasn’t looking so good either. There was a big rock by it’s head, I am thinking someone tried to bash it’s head in to kill it but didn’t do a very good job.

I figured I could find one of the rangers and they could take it in and get it fixed up, like they do on the TV shows. I found a person working the grounds and told him about the inured turtle. He told me the boys in the area like to shoot arrows at the carp and sometimes get the turtles. I told him it was still alive, he said he’d take care of it. A little while later I watched him drive his work cart over by the turtle. He picked up the big rock and threw it into the water, then he picked up the turtle and just dropped him into the back of the work cart. Well! My rose covered glasses were ripped off my face! So much for taking the injured turtle to a turtle sanctuary to get it all healed up and released back into the wild. The least the guy could have done was put it out of it’s misery.

The showers hasn’t changed any. Good thing I bring a bunch of quarters with me or things could get pretty stinky in our RV.

No dilly dallying in this shower.

We really did have a nice time though, but it’s always an adventure.

When we left in the morning, we stopped at the dump site. That is kind of like a pump out for boats but instead of a pump, you use gravity. We pulled up behind a guy that was using the dump

I didn’t see anyone standing outside but he did have his dump hose attached to his RV. I figured he was sitting in his truck while it dumped. Gary knew…..that is why he is standing outside of the car. See the guy with the dog in the right side of the picture? He is talking to a guy with a garbage bag. I figured they were just shooting the breeze. Turns out the guy with the garbage bag owned the RV. Not only did they talk on the side of the road for a while, but then they both went up to his truck and looked under the hood. Where is the dump site etiquette buddy? After he is finally done chit chatting with Mr. Dog Owner, he decides it’s time to get rid of his trash that he’d been holding onto all this time. “Sorry” he says. Yah, like that helps buddy, I didn’t know this was your own personal dump site. Then he proceeded to un-attach his hose, and then he stuck the water hose down his sewage hose to clean it out. Euw! Other people have to touch that hose. So when Mr. Important finally got done, we could do our dumping. One of the joys of camping.

But we’ll be back at it again real soon. Next stop South Dakota and Custer Park.