We had a great week with friends in Ely, MN.
Canoeing, pictographs, bears, wolves, sightseeing, hiking, waterfalls, and visiting a homestead, are just some of the things the Eberts shared with us during the week.
Gooseberry Falls State Park Two Harbors, MN. is a beautiful waterfall system with many trails all the way around. There are at least 13 waterfalls along the North Shore of Lake Superior,
It is a very lovely and clean little campground in Kieler, Wisconsin, just north of Dubuque, IA. They have an office and a camp store. The barn has a large screen TV and tables for games. The parlor is a banquet/meeting room. There is a playground area with Bolo, giant lawn checkers, and connect four lawn games.
We got the PDL or pedal drive kayaks because I have tried to fish with a paddle in my had and I didn’t like it. It is much easier to fish when you have both hands free. And if it is windy or there is current, you have to be constantly paddling without the pedal drives.
I was bored and sick and tired of cleaning, packing, and selling stuff, getting ready to hit the road full time. So I spent the day decorating our blue boy, honey wagon, or portable waste tank with septic tank jokes.
For those of you who are not campers and don’t know: at some campsites, they don’t have sewer hookups at every campsite. Hopefully, they have a dump station nearby. So instead of packing everything up, hooking our trailer up to the truck and going to the dump station every 2 to 3 days, we dump our black and grey tanks into the portable waste tank. Then we pull it over to the dump station and dump it.
While it is a lot easier to have the sewer hookups at the campsite, if everything goes well, it’s not a nasty job at all. I’m just trying to put a little smile on other campers’ faces when we see them at the dumpsites.
Livingston County Trail System is a very nice and long multi-use trail system for hiking, and biking. It wanders through woods and grasslands, under high wire power lines and next to a beautiful little lake and a few streams. There are a few really steep hills to get your heart rate up whether walking, running, or biking.
Located 22 miles west of Gulf Shores on the mouth of Mobile Bay and at the end of Fort Morgan peninsula is Alabama State Historical site, Fort Morgan. At Fort Morgan, there is a museum and a self-guided walking tour of the fort. Fort Morgan has been guarding Mobile Bay since 1834. Construction started in 1819 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
There was one wild 8 foot alligator who hangs out just across the fence from the ones in the ranch. I think they are planning a jail break. It is possible he was one who escaped during hurricane Katrina.
From our campsite, we had an incredible view of Bay St Louis and the white Sand Beach right across the road. The casino is about 1/2 mile from the RV park and there is a very nice wide sidewalk between the road and the beach to walk on.
The flora and fauna in Fontainebleau State Park are abundant. I went on a late-night walk one night and saw a raccoon, and 30+ deer’s eyes reflecting in my light. We also saw an otter in Lake Pontchartrain and several alligators in the “alligator pond” right behind the kid’s water playground in the picture above. One of our neighbors saw a sounder of hogs.
