Daily Archives: July 14, 2013
What The Heck is a Dell, Anyway?
After a nice night at the Freeborn County Fairgrounds, we left Albert Lea, MN about 9:30 and got back on I-90E heading for the K & L Campground about 15 miles northeast of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.
Although our 210 mile trip was pretty smooth, it was really just one big single lane construction zone, just miles and miles of pylons. But since the speed limit was only cut back to 55mph from 70, it didn’t really bother us much.
At the 90 mile mark Jan took over driving for a while and I got in a nice nap. By the 140 mile when we stopped at a rest area, she was ready to take a break. She said it was the most nerve-wracking drive she’d done in the rig.
What started the problem was that as we left Minnesota and entered Wisconsin the terrain changed radically. From the mostly straight roads with gently-rolling hills of Minnesota, Jan was into steep hills and sharp curves, enough so that the PacBrake got a real workout.
And of course, the icing on the cake was the ‘miles and miles of pylons’ of the single lane road construction mixed in with all the hills and curves. So at the 50 mile point she was ready for a break.
We pulled into the K & L Campground a little before 2pm and got set up.
K & L is primarily a resort campground with a lot of permanent trailers and campers parked on seasonal lots, They’re also a Passport American park with a 30amp FHU site for only $16 a day. Very nice.
But there’s two problems. One is that you can only stay here at the PPA rate Sunday through Thursday. Since we only wanted to stay until Thursday, not a problem.
The second problem was the 30 amp part. The temps here are going to be in the high 80’s / low 90’s for the next 5 days, and on 30amps we can’t run both AC’s. So it was time to break out my AC bypass.
A couple of years ago I broke out the power feed to my front AC and installed a plug / receptacle combo that lets me plug that AC into the separate 20amp receptacle on the power pedestal. So now we have both AC’s running, the coach is cool, and all’s right with the world.
Or at least our small part of it.
About 4 we headed into Wisconsin Dells to have dinner at Paul Bunyan’s Cook Shanty
The meals here are served family style, all you can eat. We had Fried Chicken, Beef Pot Roast, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy, Carrots and Peas, and really good homemade bread. Oh, and a dessert of Torte Cake, too.
Everything was really good, so good that we may come back for the breakfast one morning.
Tomorrow we may just goof off. We’ll see.
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Thought for the Day:
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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