campsite--Copper Falls ...and ending up in Minnesota. Our plan was to spend three nights at Eau Galle, a small Corps of Engineers lake and campground on the west side of Wisconsin. We had checked before we left Copper Falls and there were plenty of sites available, so we hadn't made reservations. When we arrived, there was no check-in shack and the host was not there. According to the instructions on the board, you could take any site without a reservation tag but if the site was reserved the next night, you would have to move. We could have gone on line to find a site that wasn't reserved any of the three nights, but we had no internet reception and barely cell service.
Not being excited about moving every night, we got out the atlas and found Frontenac State Park in Minnesota just south of Red Wing--about 30 miles farther on. I got on the phone and called the Minnesota reservations number. The connection was terrible and kept cutting out, but the nice lady was very patient and found one site big enough for our camper but only available for two nights. We grabbed it and got back on the road.
Our site was very tight to get into but we made it. Apparently we are in the 'Iowa loop.' The people across the road, next to us, and behind us are all from Iowa. It was 6:00 by the time we got set up, so supper was an 'encore buffet.' Soup left from the night before and sandwiches. The big excitement for us is TV reception for the first time in a week and a half. However, tornado warnings for the west part of the state rolled across the screen all night and sometime in the night a huge system passed just north of us. This morning on the radar, it looked like the worst of it hit Copper Falls so we got out just in time.
Today we will probably check out the park and explore Red Wing. Our site in a county park near Mankato was available Thursday night also and I extended our reservation there. So tomorrow, on to our second-to-last stop on this trip and some visits with extended family.
Not being excited about moving every night, we got out the atlas and found Frontenac State Park in Minnesota just south of Red Wing--about 30 miles farther on. I got on the phone and called the Minnesota reservations number. The connection was terrible and kept cutting out, but the nice lady was very patient and found one site big enough for our camper but only available for two nights. We grabbed it and got back on the road.
Our site was very tight to get into but we made it. Apparently we are in the 'Iowa loop.' The people across the road, next to us, and behind us are all from Iowa. It was 6:00 by the time we got set up, so supper was an 'encore buffet.' Soup left from the night before and sandwiches. The big excitement for us is TV reception for the first time in a week and a half. However, tornado warnings for the west part of the state rolled across the screen all night and sometime in the night a huge system passed just north of us. This morning on the radar, it looked like the worst of it hit Copper Falls so we got out just in time.
Today we will probably check out the park and explore Red Wing. Our site in a county park near Mankato was available Thursday night also and I extended our reservation there. So tomorrow, on to our second-to-last stop on this trip and some visits with extended family.
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