Travel Brainerd, MN to Fargo, ND
It’s already hot and we’re just getting started. We cross the winding Mississippi River again heading north to Brainerd. Down the road a deer was going to cross the highway, Ross hit the brakes, the deer changed its mind, turned and ran. Good choice it lived and so did we. Half an hour down the road in Staples there were lots of trains full of coal and oil cars. At the edge of town, a fenced off area of wrapped boats and boat loaders and covers. This is the land of 10,000 lakes after all!
Across the street was a fenced area with 100 boats or more.
We noticed mega corn fields drying up and turning yellow. What a shame! Our guess, it’s for animal feed. More hay fields and sunflowers fields. Then there’s the town of Detroit Lakes with
400 lakes in the vicinity. Some lakes
are very small, a little green.
Boating and liquor just go together!
Separating the city of Moorhead, MN from Fargo, ND is the Red River which I
expected to be wider, redder instead of brown and faster flowing. The Kitimat River is wider. But in spring it gets big when it over flows
its banks. The campsite in Fargo is on
the river and is usually flooded in the spring but now it is very dry. There are walking and cycling paths and a
bridge over the river so you can easily go from Minnesota to North Dakota. 
At Visitor’s Centre
Lindenwood Municipal Campsite
Walking bridge over Red River that can be
raised!
Marg & John headed into town to get two tires replaced on their RV. We drove into town to go sightseeing around
the downtown area then past Wal-Mart (I know I know I don’t like them) but we
found them first then we stopped at the famous Scheels big sports store with a
ferris wheel inside their building. Back
at the campsite a modified BMW motorcycle came through. The owner was in a wheel chair and said that
a dad had modified it for his son who had lost his legs too.
Not near our campsite
Modified
BMW (Bavarian Motor Works) Made in Munich.
Sunset over Red River
Daily Stats: Today's distance: 285 km
Weather: Sunny; High: 36 degrees; Lo: 22 degrees
Diesel: $3.89 Gal
Wildlife: Deer, Red Tailed Hawk, Heron, Bunnies, squirrel
Campsite: Lindenwood Park $28/night W/E
Walking: 2 km
North Dakota Stats:
Nickname: Sioux State
Flower: Wild Prairie Rose
Bird: Western Meadowlark
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