Meeting up with friends in Minnesota

We continued our trip to Madison Wisconsin.  We have friends, Ed and Rosemary, who live in Minnesota, we called them and decided to meet up at an RV park in Rochester MN.  They have a motorhome as well, so when they arrived, we had dinner and talked for hours.  We had a great time and made a plan for the next day.  We are going to the "Spam Museum" a few miles away in Austin MN.  Who would ever think that there would be a museam for Spam??  Well it was good, and very interesting too.  In the gift shop they sold all different flovors and types of Spam.  So of course we had to buy some to keep in the coach.

Ed, Rosemary, and her Dad Stan

Their coach a Damon Challenger and ours

The Spam Museum

We spent the next few days there at the campground, had a good time and shared great food and lots of laughs. Went out to eat a few times and caught up on all the news.  They were also planning on going to the FMCA Rally in Madison also, so we will see them again at the rally.

Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse, SD

Mount Rushmore is a wonderful place to visit. We took a tour bus from Ellsworth AFB FamCamp. It is about a 30 minute bus ride, and what a wonderful place to see, so patriotic, so inspiring. We stayed for the lighting ceremony at dusk. They asked all the veterans to come down to the stage and nearly half of the audience went.

We visited Crazy Horse and was surprised how large it is. It will not be completed in our lifetime. In fact it may be a long time before it is ever done. It is now being worked on by the second generation of the family that started this wonderful monument.

There was a storm while we were there in Rapid City. It was a rain storm then changed to an ice storm, these are pictures of the ice 4 or 5 inches thick all over the road while we were traveling up to Mount Rushmore on July 28th.

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