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Ohio, United States
Having recently retired we are fulfilling our long time dream. We began our camping life with a tent in 1969 adjusting as each of our three sons arrived over the years and gradually progressed to a 32' Class A in 2007. Even after our sons became too busy with their own interests, we continued dreaming over the years. The Louisville, KY 2003 Great North American RV Rally and the book "Movin' On" convinced us that a motorhome after retirement was really for us! In 2007 we sold our home and disposed of most of our belongings and awaited the wife's retirement on February 1, 2008. We were out in our first motorhome ten times in our first summer in 2007, with our grandson joining us eight of those ten times. Since he must stay behind with his mom and dad to continue school, we told him he can join us on vacations (by car or plane) anywhere we are as we travel the US. Imagine the history lessons he could acquire! However, Mom and Dad don't look at it that way, especially the flying. Fortunately we don't miss work one bit!! We just miss the friends there. We have many hobbies to keep us busy when we decide to sit still for a day. Hope to see you on the road.

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

PADDLEBOAT TRIP ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER

We planned a trip on the Mississippi for Saturday with Ben. He does have a day off occasionally so we took advantage of it. We had to wait for them to open for boarding, so I took some pictures of St. Paul across the river while waiting.
Our boat.
St. Paul, MN











After getting on board, we found that we were to be bombarded with a lot of children.
Just a sampling. There was another school group also.
However, they were not the problem for listening to the narration over the speaker.  It was their parents - - -. The narrator definitely could not compete with the noise. I think that it was a family reunion and they were all trying to outdo each other in conversation!!  So the trip turned out to be rather boring for us. We won't do it again from this area!!  There was not much to see along the way, but I will share the pictures that I did take.  It was a breezy day so many had jackets on.



I got a kick out of this couple!!
I wonder if they spent the night?

The police passed us just before our turn around.


The narrator told us about this section of bridge
that spanned the river and the reason for it's
removal. But we couldn't hear so did not
hear the reason.

The marina that we left from.

Barges along the river.
















By time we disembarked, we were hungry so all three of us came back to the motorhome to cook out.
About five minutes after we returned the sky opened up!!  Thus, we sat inside and I cooked there instead.  We do have a nice tree on our lot, but that was not our day to enjoy it.
So much for one day!
I just finished an hour phone call with my friend back home, so I need to finish this up.
Our neighbors just stopped by to get us to sit out and visit. Gary can not seem to do that because of the smoke or some kind of pollen. We don't need him coughing all evening and in to the night. But maybe I will go and visit for a while.
Check back and I will do today's outing in a day or two.  Tomorrow is another trip to Hastings for Walmart and Apple Valley for Home Depot.  We are out far enough from the cities that we have to travel for any large stores. So tune in again.
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