The Run Around

Yesterday was the opposite of staying home.

We drove all around the Minneapolis area doing errands. In fact, we made ten stops.

1. The post office in Hopkins, Minnesota, to pick up they mail they’ve been holding since last Saturday. That was long enough for them to hide it. They finally found it in with the Certified Mail.

2. White Castle to eat sliders. The real ones. Not the tiny burgers lots of places are selling now under the guise of being sliders. There’s only one White Castle burger and we occasionally crave it.

3. Super Target to buy groceries. We are, once gain, having trouble buying my “milk”. No one seems to carry Mocha Mix or Coffee Rich anymore. Neither did this store.

4. Galyans to try to buy light weight dishes. Our RV needs to loose weight again and this is the easiest way for us to do it. At least it would be if we could find some light weight dishes. We’ve already tried REI but, while they had some, theirs didn’t say you could microwave them. But at least they had some; Galyans didn’t. We did buy more freeze dried food there, though.

5. Camping World. Their lightweight plates are not pretty but they do go in the microwave. As long as you don’t cook bacon on them. We’ve already melted two of these plates by cooking bacon. Now we have a special bacon rack. We also asked a Camping World employee about moving our rear license plate. It is being obscured by my Segway. She said they’d have to charge their minimum labor of $50 to move it but if they had to move the lights, too, it would be more like $200. So now we need to find out if South Dakota requires the license plate be lit.

6. Super WalMart. Still trying to buy my “milk”; still no luck.

7. Batteries Plus trying to buy two new batteries for my camera. Mine have been recharged so many times they don’t hold much of one anymore. The first store didn’t have them but they sent us to a second store to get one. We still need to visit a third store to get another. Apparently, there are five of these batteries in the Twin Cities area–one each at five different stores.

8. Broadway Bar & Pizza. Nearly forty years ago some friends took us to a tiny bar on Broadway in North Minneapolis saying they had really good pizza there. They were right. That bar has given way to urban renewal but there are now Broadway Pizza places all over the Twin Cities. We always try to visit one while we are here. The one we visited this trip is in Plymouth near where we used to live and it is very popular. We had to back into a parking space because their lot was so full. We’re so glad we have a small RV that can fit in one parking space if the back can hang over the curb.

9. We drove into the setting sun back to the park where we stopped at the dump. No we did not have a Robin Williams experience there. It did take a couple of tries to get our RV lined up properly, though. Their dump is at the base of a hill and there’s a solid fence alongside the hill so it’s hard to see where you need to stop.

10. The fresh water fill. We have only an electrical hookup at our site so we stopped for fresh water. We must have been as close to empty as we have ever been.  We really pushed the limit today–we think. It would be nice to get a sight gauge installed so we could really know how low we are instead of just knowing we are somewhere between one-third and empty.

We finally pulled back into our campsite at Baker Park Reserve just in time to get plugged in before full dark.  It’s a fairly level site but we decided to improve our angle by using the leveling blocks this time.  It’s also a 50 amp site; we only need 30 amp electricity but we like being close to the storm shelter at this time of year so we are paying a couple extra dollars a night for that privilege.  Apparently, that’s how much my peace of mind is worth.

TTYL,

Linda