A beautiful morning! I walked - through the golf resort - we had toast and jam for the first time for a long time! Homemade rhubarb and strawberry jam made by a friend of Ron's in Hill City.
The new toaster set off the smoke alarm - it made a hell of a noise- probably not the place to do that!
Now headed northeast on Highway 210 (from 10) Driving through small towns - populations range from 75 to 5-6,000. A 2 lane highway lined with birch, aspen and fir trees. A few of the trees look to be turning already. We pass several really long trains carting iron ore and grain. Smaller farms replace rolling plains; lots of small lakes; green and very pretty. Minnesota is nicknamed 'The land of 10,000 lakes'.
We stop at the Visitors Centre outside Duluth, Minnesota's third largest city. As we have not been travelling on the interstate for a couple of days this is the first chance since we entered Minnesota to get maps and information for this part of our travels. We are recommended to an RV park which is right in Duluth - not the one we had considered about 10 miles out. Lakehead Boat Basin Inc provides marine services and supplies and has some full RV hookups. It is close to everything especially the Aerial Lift Bridge a huge steel structure linking the mainland to the mouth of the Duluth harbour with a 385 ft (115m) span. The bridge can raise at the rate of 138 ft (41m) a minute to let large freighters into the harbour.
So - we have it all without having to hire a car. We can bike or walk to everything that we want to do.
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