Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Day #30

I had forgotten to take pictures of the campground at Blueberry Hills, so I snapped these on our way out of the campground.  The property included the Blueberry Bowl (bowling, lounge, and dining), Blueberry Hills Golf Course (a nine hole golf course) and Blueberry Hills Campground.

Blueberry Bowl

Welcome sign

       

Leaving Blueberry Hills Golf Course and campground, we are heading toward Albert Lea to Hickory Hills campground in Twin Lakes.

We stopped in Crosby at their city park for a walk break and found the best playground I have seen. It was called the Tot Lot for kids two – five. On the lake was a dragon.

Tot Lot

An example of the many old farming building we have passed in our travels. This one was built beside a railroad track, probably for storage before shipping on railcars

Skirting past St. Cloud, Minnesota we had lunch in the suburbs at a Perkins Restaurant. Doug had loaded potato soup with half BLT. I had the most tender, flavorless porkchops. They were supposed to be grilled with garlic seasoning, but I couldn’t taste garlic!

As you can tell the Mississippi has widened a bit since leaving Lake Itasca. 

The windmill fields have started to reappear these were right on the highway. 

We arrived at Hickory Hills Campground in Albert Lea about 6:00 p.m. and called Larry. The Lady that Doug made reservations had told him that she would not be there and to call Larry, he would show us our site. Well Larry didn’t have us on his list, so he just put us in spot #8. Larry told us to drive around the circle to back into the spot and he would meet us there. He had Doug pull forward, backup, pull forward and back several times to get the camper backed into a site that could have been a pull through!

Because of fire restrictions, we have had one campfire in Michigamme. The fire restrictions continue here.

We enjoyed a quiet evening, what was left of it.