On the Go with John and Jessie

After getting up at 6 am in Medora ND to drive back to Bismarck to retrieve Jessie’s walnut, we set off for Yellowstone in earnest. We arrived in Red Lodge at 7 pm, checked into to Perrys RV Zpark (cash or check), a d went for a great dinner at the wine bar in Red Lodge. Although we’d planned to get up at the crack of dawn to run into the park to get one of the first-come-first-served camp sites, we mellowed out at dinner and decided to stay two nights (and visit the Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary).

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We are staying at Apostle Islands Area Campground. It’s very green and no black flies! 

Checked out a couple of wineries in the Leelanau Peninsula AVA, one of Michigan’s four AVAs. I bought some Gruner veltliner and Pinot blanc, unusual finds, as well as unbaked Chardonnay, Pinot noir, Pinot Gris, rose of Pinot noir, Gewürztraminer, Cabernet franc, and a red blend. 

Staying at Indigo Bluffs RV Park  

Visited Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore 

A down day in Michigan woods after visit to Munson Community Healthcare Center in Traverse City to stock up on heavy duty cough medicine. I’d hope to do wine tasting here on the Leelanau Peninsula – 25 wineries – but get up and go got up and left. We’ve had some good fish – walleye, perch, smelt, and steelhead.

Flying Tigers  

Truman’s presidential plane  

Staying at the Kal-Haven RV Park.

View from Captain Lou’s restaurant (a very jolly place) during dinner on the 23rd.

We’ve just arrived at John Bryan to begin our. Week at Antioch – first volunteering to fix up the campus, then for the reunion and first commencement of the newly reopened college. It’s about 2 pm and there is a severe thunderstorm watch until 9 pm. Maybe the rain will cool things down. Quite a change from the 5300′ campground in the Smokies.

1. Leaving the coolth, we drove through Tennessee, Kentucky, into Ohio. All the way was green and beautiful. And warm. Sitting outside now at the park listening to Prairie Home Companion with a little breeze.
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