A Final Push to Make it Home

After dreading our drive through Kansas City we made it quite easily. We spent two nights at Watkins Mill State Park and tried to contact friends in Missouri but were only able to leave a message. Not knowing if we would be able to connect with them we planned to attend their church Sunday morning on a chance that we would meet them. However Sunday at breakfast we received a call with an invitation to meet at the Holt United Methodist Church. Google maps said it was a 20 minute drive, so Jim made a few notes and set off in time to be 15 minutes early. Well these small back roads that seem to follow cow paths from long ago and don't all have proper sign posts. Soon we were lost and we put on the GPS to find our way. Well that did not work out well since the GPS thought it needed roads to take me around the block to get back in the right direction. So after about an extra 10 km we got going on the right route. It would have been so much quicker to hear the GPS say "turn around you are heading in the wrong direction."

This intersection had good signage - many did not!

We went out for lunch with them and their church friends. Thanks Walt and Ruby for your hospitality and visit. It was good to recall our past connection through MDS and see how you are keeping active in your community.

We needed to change our normal route along I-29 due to the flooding at St. Joseph MO till Sioux City IA. The best option for us was to use I-35 through Des Moine IA and Minneapolis MN and then I-94 to Fargo and then north toward home.

Monday morning we headed for Minneapolis for our night stop. As campgrounds are mostly closed we chose another casino RV campground.

Knowing our Tuesday drive to be a long one, we started our drive just after 6 am to try and beat the morning rush hour. It was already very busy at that time of day.

Still lots of snow in Grand Forks ND.

Driving was good and we arrived at the Emerson border  crossing at 4:30 but had a 30 minute wait due to spring break travellers. We arrived home by 5:30 and did a quick unpacking of freezables and left the rest for Wednesday as well as the winterization of the RV.

RV storage will have to wait till the snow melts.

The winter months have been good. We are looking forward to catching up with family and friends.

Thanks for being our faithful blog readers. We are now done posting till our next service adventure. We have no plans in the works.