One of the best luxuries of glamping is having running water for cleaning, cooking, and flushing. Unlike in your sticks and bricks home, there is no permanent sewer drain. So all the water you use must be stored in tanks until you have sewer hook-ups to drain them. Done correctly, this is not too bad of a job. Done incorrectly, it can be a nasty, smelly, and dirty job.
After our Ely MN adventures, we stayed at The Lakeview On Rainy Lake and International Falls, MN. It is a wonderful little campground, with an emphasis on LITTLE! They have 4 cabins and about 4 spots for campers. We had no problem getting our 43′ 5th wheel and truck in. The manager of the campground was a super nice lady. She told us all about the area, where to go and what to do. When she found out I love…
Before we harvested sugar beets, we had no idea that 70-80% of sugar in the USA comes from sugar beets, not sugar cane. Sugar beets are grown in cooler climates with about 5 months of growing season. States that grow sugar beets are Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Washington, and Oregon.
Itasca State Park, the Headwaters of the Mississippi River. We spent a day there hiking amongst the beautiful red pine forest and WALKING ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER! They have a visitor center with all kinds of information and a scale model of the whole Mississippi River System.
We got behind when we started the sugar beet harvest in North Dakota. We already run 1-2 weeks behind current time when we get blogs posted. During the Sugar Beet harvest we were working 12+ hour days, so we obviously had no time to blog. Besides, the main reason for our adventure, is to have fun and to see the country. We have been doing plenty of that, so it will take a while for us to get caught up.
Arrow Head RV Resort, Ely, MN a small campground right in Ely, MN. It’s a very basic RV campground, but I would not call it an RV resort. We had water, sewer, 50 amp electric, and WiFi. The WiFi reception was good and seemed to have pretty decent speeds, although I never did run a speed test. AT&T service worked very well, but Verizon was spotty at best in the area. In spite of some negative reviews, we got along fine with the campground manager.
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.
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.
