In the morning Mike gets up to find us some coffee. He comes back empty handed. People at both the truck stop and restaurant next door treated him with disdain when he asked for decaf. We drive for half an hour to a Cracker Barrel for decaf and a full, hot breakfast.
Across Wisconsin, it is a cloudy, grey day, about 50 degrees. The fields are empty except for a few pumpkin patches. We stop at a KOA in Hixton, WI for a few RV supplies. The fields here between the rolling hills are golden.
On the iPhone, Siri gives us a list of “the best restaurants in Eau Claire.” At the top of her list is Tacos Juanita, a tiny Mexican place in a strip mall one mile off I-94, where we enjoy the best tortilla soup we’ve ever had. Our waiter brags that he made it himself.
We stop in Albany, MN, just west of St. Cloud, for fuel. This is the exit for the Lake Wobegon Bike Trail that we enjoyed earlier this year. We are sorry that we don’t have time for biking this trip.
I am alarmed to find that most campgrounds this far North closed Oct. 15. In Alexandria, MN, we discover that Alexandria Shooting Park and RV Campground is open until Nov. 1. Camping at a shooting park is a first! It is a wide-open, flat area stretching for about a half mile with about 30 shooting sites. Yes, they shoot away from the campsites! This night there is only one shooter and he stops at dusk, around 7:30pm.
The showers are hot but the bathrooms are not heated, so we shower in the evening, thinking it will be colder in the morning. We heat up pot roast and root vegetables from home and, since there is no TV reception, we listen to the presidential debate on the radio.
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