Our RV Adventures

I spent the morning figuring out where we’re going when we leave here on Saturday. And now I know where we’re going to be for the next week.

Our first stop will be in Albert Lea, MN, where, using one of Nick Russell’s E-Book Guides, I found a nice, cheap site at the Freeborn County Fairgrounds there. We’ll only be there the one night, and then it’s on to the Wisconsin Dells where we’ll stay for 5 nights at the K and L Campground, a Passport America park.

After that, it gets a little squishy. We may spend a few days on the peninsular at Sturgeon Bay, before we head up to Sault Sainte Marie for a while, or we may just go straight from the Dells to the UP. We’ll figure it out next week.

About 1pm Jan and I headed a few miles down the road to see another movie. We were hoping to make it another two’fer like yesterday, but couldn’t make the times and theaters work out. So we decided to see “The Heat” with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy of TV’s ‘Mike and Molly”. Today’s movie was at a different theater than yesterday’s movies. And because of that, our tickets cost us over twice as much.

Yesterday’s movies were at an older mall and the theater was basically a ‘Dollar’ movie, and at $3.00 a ticket, a lot cheaper than the $6.25 we paid today. And unlike a lot of other second tier theaters, it was very nice inside, and more importantly, you’re feet don’t stick to the floor.

The mall housing yesterday’s theater was kind of interesting too. Although it still has a few retail stores besides the 7 screen theater, about 10 years ago they started converting it to a professional office building housing doctors, lawyers, real estate agents, financial companies, etc. And it must be pretty successful, because they’re adding on to it.

We both really enjoyed ‘The Heat’ since we liked Sandra Bullock for a long time, and Melissa McCarthy’s Mike and Molly is one of our favorite TV shows. Though be forewarned that the movie is rated ‘R’, and it’s definitely for the language, not sex.

By the time the movie was over it was after 4pm so we headed next door to have dinner at Ruby Tuesday. It’s been a while since we’ve eaten at one, but we’ve saw their new ads on TV, and we’ve always liked their big salad bar. Jan had the Blackened Tilapi and I had the Grilled Chicken and Shrimp, both very good. And they had something new.

They now have a competitor for Red Lobster’s Cheddar Bay Biscuits. They’re called Maple Bacon Garlic Cheese Biscuits and they’re even better than Red Lobster’s. Worth going back just for them.

Tomorrow we’ll may try to take in another movie or two. We’ll see.

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Thought for the Day:

We are all criminals, we just have not been arrested yet.

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Today was pretty much our main reason for coming to South Dakota this year. It was time to renew our drivers licenses. So we were up at 6am and on our way to the DMV by 6:45.  Luckily they’re located only about a mile and a half from the fairgrounds, so we were there and in line at the door by 6:55. And with only about 6 people in front of us. it didn’t take us long to start the process.

Originally I had thought we would drive over to Mitchell for our licenses and avoid the two or three hour waits I had heard about. But after checking the drive time over there and hearing from the camp host here at the fairgrounds that it wasn’t that busy in the middle of the week, I decided to do it here in Sioux Falls. And under the circumstances, it was good we stayed local.

One of the pieces of ID we needed to renew was an SS card, or something with our SS number on it. Jan was sure she had her SS card but she didn’t. What she had was her Medicare card, which had her SS number on it, but for some reason it’s not one they take. So I drove back to the rig to grab another form of ID for Jan. And even with all that we were out in about 45 minutes. No problem and we’re good for another 5 years.

One thing that I was able to clarify was how we renew in another 5 years. We were originally told that from now on we could renew online. Well, yes and no.

You can only renew online every other 5 years because they don’t want you to go more than 10 years without a new picture. And when you do renew online you still have to furnish a vision test from an optometrist. But the real kicker is that you also still have to furnish something to show residency. Which for RV’ers is campground receipt. Which means we have to be here anyway.

Oh, well.

Since it was now about 8am we decided to have breakfast at a local place called the Fry’n Pan. Good food and good coffee.

I had the really unique Country Pork Breakfast.

The first thing unusual about this meal was that there was pulled pork BBQ on the biscuits under the gravy. But the really neat part was that it came with Chicken Fried Bacon!

Yes, Chicken Fried Bacon. And boy, was it good. It was crispy-crunchy without being tough and chewy. I want more.

Getting back to the rig about 9 we both ended up napping for a couple of hours. Turns out a morning nap is even better than an afternoon nap.

One thing we wanted to do here in Sioux Falls is to catch up on some movies. So about 12:30 we headed down the road a few miles to see two movies, Iron Man 3 and Now You See Me. A two’fer, so to speak.

Both movies turned out to be really good. In fact we both agreed that we liked IM3 better than 1 or 2. The action was just as good, but the storyline was better than the first 2. And we thought the first 2 were really good. But this one was better.

We also really like Now You See Me too. The illusions were great, and the plot twists and turns kept you trying to figure out what was going on and who was behind it.

And you won’t know until the very end. Both movies well recommended.

By the time we got out of the second movie is was about 6pm, so we decided on the Old Chicago Pizza right down the street for supper. And it turned out much better than last week in Gillette. They didn’t lose our order, and they didn’t run out of cheesecake.

Tomorrow, probably more movies.

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Thought for the Day:

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” – Richard Feyman

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