Moose Lake State Park, MN

Monday Aug 13, 2012 & Tuesday Aug 14, 2012

We are driving along on Monday morning now and will probably do the same thing as yesterday--find lunner (combo of lunch and dinner), drive about 7 hours and find a
city park to stay overnight in.  Hopefully these City Parks will continue!  They're great....and free!

As we're driving east on Route 200 we come to Cooperstown, ND--a rather large community.  There's even a country club.  What's different is that there were grain silos and wind mills scattered on this golf course.  It reminded Ed of a putt-putt ! Surprisingly, though, about 10 miles later there's another golf course....it's good to be a farmer!

As we were driving thru North Dakota, we ended up in Fargo--although it's a city, it has a small town feel.  Lots of the side streets are tree lined with neat little houses all along.  Then we come to a bridge and a toll!!!  Believe it or not, this bridge takes you from ND to MN and there was a $ .75 toll!~  Very quaint! It was just a 2 lane bridge with a toll both and a toll taker in the middle.  He even had his own Bouse House next to it!

It's certainly apparent that we've left the mountains, however.  The scenery is pretty flat as far as you can see.  Can you say Iowa??

Monty has assumed his sleeping position.  He's amazing.  Now, I've only had experience with traveling with three dogs: Our son Ed's dog, Jack, would gladly climb in the back seat, sit on the bench and put his paw on the arm rest and happily watch the world go by.  Our dog Buddy would stress the minute he got in the car:  He either wanted to be consoled by you (basically sitting under your arm) or whining.  Monty, however, gets in the back of the truck with no trouble now and 'assumes the position'.  He goes right to sleep on his side and he sleeps for however long you travel--whether it's 20 minutes or 4 hours!
Not a peep out of him.  Amazing!

We stayed tonight at Moose Lake State Park in Willow River, MN.  The free City Park in Moose Lake (with free WIFI no less!) was closed!  We decided to stay for 2 nights.  That will give me time to do some long overdue laundry.  The campsite is nice enough, they have a nice picnic and beach area, a nice library and grocery store.  We played Scrabble near the beach while Monty slept.  The weather was beautiful.