Made it to Minnesota

The drive to Minnesota on Memorial weekend was smooth sailing. Most traffic was going in the opposite direction. PLT. We stayed at an AmericInn RV park and one Walmart on the way. The WM greeter was very friendly and made us feel like we family coming to visit. hehe The AmericInn was just as friendly. So nice when you are welcomed someplace in such a manner.

I'm not so sure how well our arrival was once we hit Fergus Falls and brought the rain with us. But my brother Mike and his wife Kim made us feel so welcomed and happy to see us. It was great seeing them too. We are staying in a section of their new property that they are building on. Tucked into the whispering pines is so nice.  No neighbors, no noisy traffic, and so far no wild animals. hehehe

we have been running on solar to charge the battery bank for over almost 3 months and it has been working very well.

But now that we are boondocking it is putting the batteries under an extra load as they must pickup all the ac electric requirements as well by running the inverter.

Under perfect working conditions this would have still worked out quite well ......"but"...... as it has been solid overcast and raining for the last three or four days we are working deeper into the battery banks capacity than we have in the past.

We shut down the inverter tonight saying by-by to all ac till this morning.The sun is not out again today so we have tied into the system using the 3000 watt generator and turning on the converter to both supply ac electricity and charge the battery bank. All is working well.  Cindy's brother Mike called a guy for us, to come and pump out our black tank tomorrow morning. Today we need to get some more water into our fresh water tank. That will have to be done, one gallon at a time. But it is doable.  All this means that we can stay a couple days longer in this beautiful spot.

It is Always an Adventure!