Day Five – Thursday Sept. 4th 2013.

THOU SHALL NOT STEAL!

We made it to Mall of America last night. It was not what I had expected. We had been there about 11 years ago on a trip back home from Nashville TN.

I didn’t remember all of the Parkades! So no room to park the motorhome for the night as noted below.

Waking up this we had a nice relaxing time with our morning coffee and a bit of a sleep in. Watching the comings and goings at Wal Mart. Finally I ventured into the store as we needed some bottled drinking water and a few things. After coming out we decided it was time to hit the road again as it was getting close to noon.

As I was getting the Honda ready to tow again I noticed the license plate lid was down on the motorhome and the gas cap was off just sitting there. It’s obvious someone helped themselves to a bit of our gasoline! My second thought was how much did they steal as we had just filled up before stopping last night it could be worth a few hundred dollars if they took it all!

Running at a feverish pace I wandered to the motorhome and checked and thankfully it looks like they probably only had a Five Gallon Jerry Can with them and weren’t too greedy! I was thankful to say the least and I will forgive them, as it seems they needed the gas worse than we did.  Lesson learned: Buy a locking gas cap as this stuff is worth its weight in gold now days!

Getting on the road we finally made our way into beautiful Wisconsin. As much as Minnesota is beautiful so is Wisconsin. Minnesota has a lot of lakes (10,000 they say) like Manitoba and it seems many of them are along the freeway. Wisconsin has even more trees and thicker forests all along the freeway!

A pretty un-eventful day we didn’t make it to Chicago. Instead we decided we are getting older and pushing it is not really required. So we stopped in an area about 50 miles from Madison, Wisconsin in a town called Baraboo.  Right next to this town is a State Park and guess what its name is. Yes we are staying at “Devil’s Lake State Park!

So what’s with this name? That’s twice now that we have stayed at Devils Lake in two different states and we have only be gone since Sunday! I don’t know either but perhaps ask Barb when we get back as she is the Navigator picking the spots we stop in!

However this state park is a beautiful one. We decided to book two nights to get ourselves a bit of a good rest. We rolled in, paid and decided we better take on some water and dump the grey and black tanks. It’s $32.00 USD a night here and would be a bit cheaper if we had a state parks pass. So not too bad as included in the price is electricity so we can actually watch TV! I hadn’t watched the news all week and it appears nothing much has changed.

Another reason we stayed two nights was we thought it might be a bit better going through Chicago on a weekend instead of on a Friday. I don’t know if that’s a good or bad choice but it sounded good at the time and of course we will let you know!

After set up and cleaning up a bit we decided to go out for dinner. We were both tired so that sounded like a good choice for me. We headed down to the corner in the Honda and found a place called “Hooty’s.”

Great place! It had chicken wings, potato skins and Barb had Quesada’s. We were treated to some Karaoke too which started off very well by a great male country vocalist and ended with a female that was lets say either drunk or couldn’t carry a tune in a buck – or both! The food was good and the people very nice. I think I will be trying chicken wings in every state we visit just to say that I did. The one’s here are likely the best I ever had even beating out Philly’s in Apache Junction AZ!