Jordan Minnesota and through the prairie - May 14th

The KOA that we stayed at last night was one of the nicest places in terms of people that we have stayed at. The couple that owns it was so friendly, and the workers (many of which are retired folks, that are doing the full time RV life now) were all a nice bunch - the way thing should be.
Barbara was working on one of her web sites, and so we asked if we could stay past their noon checkout. The guy said as long as we were out by 10PM he'd be fine...
While B worked on her web site, I did a little brain teasing on work stuff, and then finished up some projects on the RV - they let me borrow a ladder to install the "stink sucking" vortex, put the new sticker expansion set (Canadian provinces) up, more laundry, played with D in the park, and all sorts of stuff before we pulled out of camp about 3.

From there, westward bound again - through south Minnesota. Stopped in Walnut Grove of "Little House on the Prairie" fame. There was a farmer here that had actually reconstructed a number of dwelings using period materials including a log cabin, sod hut, sod house, and sod shed. Interesting process using a horse or ox drawn sod cutter making 1 x 2 ft "flakes" of sod, that were stacked two deep, then one across every third layer. They actually run the sod house as a Bed and Breakfast some times, people dress up in period clothing, etc. Nice fellow - was harvesting asparagus from his garden. They charge a few bucks admission to keep it up. The History channel actually visited a ways back, and did a show on Prairie Dwelling construction. Interesting stuff - and Delilah had a very nice time dancing in the prairie grass (pictured above).


From there, on for a while, stopping at a bar and grill/tanning place/camp ground that was a very local hang out. Dinner for the three of us (Cheeseburgers and fries with one beer) came to $12 total... Several ladies at the counter cursing a blue streak - hope Delilah didn't pick up too many funny words along the way.

A pretty view of windmills at sunset.

Camping in a nice little historic burg called Pipestone, which we will explore tomorrow.