Day 37 Aug 23, 2019

Awake at 2 AM due to thunder boomers rattling the tent trailer. And of course a ton of rain with it.  Up 6:30 AM so we were on the road really early.  Stopped in Moose Jaw to check out the camp ground for next years rally.  Had a big breakfast at the restaurant next door then headed north. Ran into rain, sunshine, lots of wind  and then more rain just miles from home.  YES WE ARE HOME.  We traveled 9050 KM or 5625 miles. We were gone for 37 days. (5 weeks & 2 days) It was an awesome trip as we not only saw lots of relatives we also got in lots of site seeing.  We might even be Museumed out. LOL

Day 36 Aug 22, 2019

Was kind of cool getting up this AM. Got going around 9:30 AM and headed for Regina.  Stopped in Woolesy for a picnic lunch and the wind was about 90 miles an hour so it seemed.
Stopped at Indian Head as Gerry's doo rag was bothering his head.

Got checked into King's RV Park just on the east end of Regina.  Good but very windy here.

Tonight we are meeting more cousins for chinese food, then tomorrow we will check out the camp ground in Moosejaw for next years rally before heading north towards home.

Day 35 Aug 21,2019

Got Brandon real early (before lunch) as we had an early morning.  Cool riding. Got set up and then went to Walmart for groceries.  Was having some lunch when relatives started showing up to the camp site. Had an awesome visit till after 7 PM when all was gone.  Missed seeing 5 others as they were either sick or working.  Went to Boston Pizza for supper around 8 PM.

Day 34 Aug 20, 2019

Last night we were to cousin Deb's for supper.  There were14 of us all together.  Had a great visit and an awesome supper.  Also got the tree caught up with this section of the family.
Today we met up with cousin Eddie & Lorraine for lunch and a good visit for a couple of hours.
For supper we finally finished the left over roast beef from Husky House a few nights ago.
Ready to hit the road for Brandon in the morning.
unable to up load picture of our camp site for the past four days.

Day 33 cont'd again. one more try for the picture.

Here it finally is!!

Day 33 cont'd.

This is in hour 2 now trying to finish our post. We had the last two pictures and an interesting story about Annie's and my giant roast beef dinner at the Husky House Headingly truck stop and lost it all. Can't get the picture uploaded but will describe it. I've spent 50 years eating on the road and informed our waitress of same. The roast beef specials were more than an inch thick and covered half of a full size dinner plate. I always finish my meal but not this one, not much more than half. Needless to say, we got a big takeout box and sliced the remains as best we could with the steak knife to utilize with buns at our campsite. I actually thought we were on candid camera or something as this meal was so out of line for a couple of seniors. I was on best behavior in case we were on tv but no dice I suppose.lol.

Day 33 Aug 19, 2019

We are going to try and upload some pictures today as we are suppose to be right under the antenna.
 Today we will be meeting with more cousins at there place.

Manitoba border

Viking ship from Fargo This ship sailed from the Great Lakes to Norway in the 90's

Viking church built on one to one scale from one in Norway

The carving of every thing in the church was awesome

Bike nite in Fargo

more bikes even thought it was a lite drizzle

Rainey river/lake at Ft Francis from our camp site

our camp site at Ft Francis

Lake Superior Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay Marina

AAron Camp Ground just east of Dryden, ON

Swinging bridge in Dryden that goes no where

Manitoba border almost home

Bank of Montreal on the corner of Portage & Main 

Fort Gary Museum

Day 32 Aug 18, 2019

Lets see if we can upload yesterdays pictures. still no luck
Today we went thru downtown Winnipeg (Portage & Main) on our way to the Lower Fort Gary Museum.  Took us 1 hour plus to get there.  Had supper at Husky House on way back to camp ground.  Had the roast beef special and it was so big, it filled the plate and was 1" thick.  Took a picture but unable to upload.
Talked with a cousin that said at some casino here today they had a bike show and 1400 bikes showed up.  We did see a lit of bikes on our travels.
sorry about no pictures

Day 30 Aug 16, 2019

Tonight we are camped at AAron Gov Camp grounds just east of Dryden, ON  Got set up and went into Dryden to site see.
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Day 31 Aug 17, 2019

Today we headed for Winnipeg and we are here for 4 days at the KOA just west about 20 miles.
Pictures still not up loading.

Day 29 Aug 15, 2019

We headed NE towards Thunder Bay and got a site at the KOA.  Went into town to the HD shop for T-shits of course before we toured TB.

in front of Thunder Bay HD shop

grain ship on Lake Superior

Anne checking the water in Lake Superior

and Gerry also checking the water in Lake Superior

Tonight it was KFC for supper & then grocery shopping.  Tomorrow we start heading west.

Day 28, Aug 14, 2019
We left the rain behind us we hope and headed for Ft Francis ON and crossed back into Canada at the International Falls. Got a sit at the city camp site. No Wifi again.

border crossing

There used to be a very big pulp & paper mill here, but has been closed for 5 years now. The one on the American side is still in operation today.  We were camped on the Rainey River/lake.

Day 27 Aug 13, 2019

Today we went to the Air Museum and then to the Hjemkomst Museum.

very large & unmaned

Piper float plane

Viking ship

Viking Church

Then we met up with cousin Matt for Fargo's antique bike nite.  It was at Brekker's. Taco stand, live music and about 48 bikes showed up and it was drizzling all the while we were there pretty much.

Day 25 Aug 11, 2019

We left Joan's place in Brooklyn Park, MN after being there 5 nites.  Had a fair gathering of cousins last night.  We arrived in Fargo and got checked into the city camp ground.  No Wifi at the Lindonwood RV Park. Matt showed up for a visit. He just got home from Sturgis. Had a good visit. Next day we went to Bonanzaville (an old town)

very large tractor display

Afterwards we went to the Fryn Pan Restaurant and met up with cousins and had a great visit. There was Dallas & Mary Ann, Ted & Emily & Matt.

Very high humidity - 80% plus.

Day 24 Aug 10, 2019

Today started out raining. Good thing the bike & trailer are in the garage until the reunion later in the day.  After breakfast of eggs and fresh cinnamon buns hot out of the oven we went to Sam's Club for groceries, then Walmart.  Joan made a picture presentation on the bulletin board.  Only 11 of us as some were working and some were out of town, but we still had a good visit.

six of us in this picture

It rained on & off all day so the bike & trailer finally got wet.  Suppose to be dry tomorrow. Hopefully as we are pulling out for Fargo, ND in the morning.

Day 23 Aug 9, 2019

After breakfast we headed for Historic Fort Snelling.  Was very interesting museum. Fort was established in 1820 to prevent the Canadian fur traders taking all the beavers from the area. LOL
The fort has been used for multiple uses over the years.  It was a training school in WWII for training Japanese Americans to learn Japanese dialects, and now is a Historic Museum. We spent 4 hours there.

Entrance to museum

Fort in back ground

one of the cannons at the Fort

one of the important Japanese officers

Stopped at Mini Ha Ha Falls (Hiawatha movie) on way home

Day 22 Aug 8, 2019

Today we only went to Harbor Freight for a new set of wiring for the trailer as we were having issues with the right tail light. Joan got some 2x4's from the lumber yard.
Last night Joan put a new tube in her bike so she went for a test ride.

Gerry spent the day re-wiring the trailer to get the lights working, so now we won't have people telling us that we have no tail lights

Tomorrow will be a site seeing day.

Day 21 Aug 7, 2019

After a scrumptious breakfast of waffles, bacon & eggs we puttered in the garage with cleaning the trailer before we went to HD for an oil change. And of course a T-shirt. LOL  We find that driving in these big cities is very intimidating.  We are just not used to all this traffic and it wasn't even rush hour.  No pictures today.

Day 20 Aug 6, 2019

Had one heck of a rain storm  woke us up about 2 AM.  So this morning everything we needed to put back in the trailer was wet.  It was also a travel day.  It took us almost 7 hours to get to cousin Joan's place in Minneapolis.  Got the tent trailer set up in Joan's garage to dry everything out.  Will do laundry tomorrow.  Joan did an awesome supper for us.  We will be staying at her place till Sunday.
No pictures today.

Day 19 Aug 5, 2019


Travel day today and we are now in Newton, Iowa KOA. Some pictures from today.

Iowa State line

too far off the main road to go see

Day 18 cont'd again

The trolley City Tour.  Did not know that there was so much history in Kansas City.  One could be here a week and still not see it all.  Our tour was 1 1/2 hour long and the guide told us about Harry S Truman living there and Howard Hughes just to name a couple.

a beautiful bridge over the Kansas river

one of two bridges of it's kind in the world.  They lower the middle section for rail traffic.

Howard Hughes building where he designed that rocket on top which is a model of the one he was going to fly to mars one way, but had not yet figured out tot get back yet.

This mural is one of thousand in KC that was done by a homeless person. The city made him a millionaire with all the murals, and he now helps the homeless.  He also encourages other people to paint murals as well

Day 18 cont'd more
We then went to Union Station to see the Stone Henge display

ceiling of Union Station. Second biggest station in North America. At least 40 feet up

over door way to Union Station

Stone Henge as it would have looked about 5000 years ago

They man handled these 3000+ lb stones after carving them. Some how they lifted these stones on top of the up right stones.