Today we traveled from Mitchell, South Dakota to Owatonna, Minnesota after waiting for a heavy layer of fog to lift in Mitchell and after a momentary scare of thinking we'd lost Jim's cell phone. The cell phone had slipped down between the seat and door of our car with its ringer turned to silent so dialing its number was to no avail. Luckily after the third search of the RV and car, we found it and that spells R-E-L-I-E-F!
The fog was also testy lasting until 11:00 am before we could see across the Interstate highway just a few feet from where we stayed. We'd been watching the weather and wanted to head out before a predicted rainstorm to our west and at the same time we wanted to stay behind one to our east. We accomplished both. We arrived in Owatonna after a 270 mile trip through for the most part cornfields decorated with barns, farmhouses, cows and wind generators.
This is the end of our journey on I-90. We will spend a planned four nights here exploring the largest mall in the country-"Mall of America", touring the Spam Museum and possibly a visit to the Winnebago manufacturing plant located about an hour from here to view the process of making an RV firsthand.
They are predicting heavy thunderstorms here tonight and tomorrow and we have a pesky engine warning light that came on today which may alter our plans but we'll see. It is supposed to get cold here (at least by our standards) with the weather system that is coming through tonight. We are also watching west for a Canadian cold front that may put snow into Montana and Wyoming. We are glad we left Washington when we did! At the same time we are watching east for a storm that has developed off the coast of Africa that could potentially become a hurricane. We have no desire to deal with either of these types of weather up close and personally. When we leave here we will head south on I-35 toward Memphis. Our journey takes us down the west side of the Appalachian mountains.
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