Catching Up, Wakefield MI to Spooner WI to River Falls, WI.

Rantoul, IL.
65 deg. clear, no wind.some fog.
Forecast today = high temp. 92 deg. mostly sunny, light South winds

OK, I'm going to try to get caught up on my travels in the next couple days, so I hope you'll bear with me.

In this post, I'll try to cover my travels from Wakefield, MI., where I was when I  was last able to get on the Internet, down to River Falls Wisconsin where Linda's brother Glenn, and his wife Jeanette, live.

On Thursday, July 22, we left the city park in Wakefield and headed West on US 2. 2 took us out of Michigan, and into Wisconsin, through Ashland and to US 63. We then took 63 all the way down to Spooner, where we pulled into the Country House Motel and RV Park. It was a nice short travel day, and it only took us 2 hours and 40 minutes to travel the 137 miles of good road.

Jim had read mixed reviews on this park, and so he wasn't surprised when the man in the motel office told him that they no longer gave the Passport America discount and then started to put down the RVers that he claimed took excess advantage of his pool and other amenities, while only paying half price. Jim just ignored him and payed the nice lady that was checking me in, and then came out an pulled me around to the back of the Motel and into a nice long pull-through site.

I don't know what this owner has against PPA, but even though he has a fairly nice CG, it's not worth the $30 that Jim was charged. I was the only camper in the park and I think that it would be better to get half of that, rather than have all the sites setting there empty. Because of the attitude of the owner and the high price, we will not be staying at this CG again. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the CG was closed in a few years, as no one wants to hear negative comments about RVers as they are checking in.

Since it was Linda's birthday, Jim found out that there was a restaurant in town called Nick's that was supposed to be good, so for dinner, they took CLT and headed over there and had a very nice meal.

On Friday, the 23rd of July, we left the CG in Spooner at about 10:05 and continued South on US 63. We stayed on 63 all the way down to I-94, where we tuned West for a few miles and then took Rt 65 South and to River Falls, WI, where we pulled into Hoffman Park.

It was almost exactly 12:00 when we pulled into the park so it took us one hour and 55 minutes to travel 94 miles.

I've been to Hoffman Park in River Falls before, so I knew just how to get into one of the nice back-in sites. It's a small city park with level back-in sites, 30 Amp electric, and a nice dump station. It's well maintained, always neat and clean, with paved roads and pads, and they only charge $15 a night. :-)

Oh and one other thing, it's only about 3/4 mile from Linda's brother's house!

After taking naps and getting the inside of me cleaned up some, Jim and Linda took CLT (Cute Little Truck) and headed over to Glenn's house. Of course Glenn and Jeanette knew that Linda had just had a birthday, so they ordered pizza and made a cake to celebrate. :-) Glenn and Jeanette's son Ed, his wife Michelle and their son Thomas are living temporarily with Glen and Jeanette, so of course they joined in on the celebration too.

I think Linda was really pleased as she was still talking about how nice it was of them to make a cake and give here a few gifts when they got back to the park.

After dinner, Jim was telling Glenn about our computer problems and how we were not able to get on-line with the air card, so Glenn looked up the location of an AT&T store on his computer and found one over in St. Paul, MN. So......Saturday, Glenn and Jeanette came out to the CG, picked up Jim and Linda and headed to the store.

The guy at the store found out that the card was working properly and told Jim that he was almost positive that the computer was infected with a virus. Well, they talked about taking it to a store in St. Paul, but Jim decided that he wanted to bring it back here to Rantoul and have Greg from Geeky Guys come and take a look at it as he had done a good job fixing a problem that they had a couple of years ago. So, they came back to the CG and talked for awhile.

That evening, they all went to a Perkins Restaurant for dinner, and then Sunday most of the day was spent at Glenn and Jeanette's talking and spending some one-on-one time with them.

Our stay in River falls was very good and I know that Linda enjoyed spending time with her brother. It had been quite awhile since we had been up there and it was good to see them and their house again. :-)

Did you know that River Falls is home to the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, (where Glenn is a Professor), and through 2009 the site of the summer camp of the Kansas City Chiefs?