Great River Road 2011: Day 3 - travel day to Brainerd, Minnesotta

By: The Atteburys Adventure 3

We drove from Bemidji to Brainerd MN today. It’s a 103 mile trip by way of a beautiful tree lined highway, the SR 371. We left this morning at about 11:30, and started south along the Great River Road. Everyone left at different times this morning, but before we got started a bunch of us got together just to shoot the breeze. Erv gave an impromptu lesson to Carol on how to use the FRS. That’s walky-talky to you and me. And it looked like a few people were trying to help Ira get his trailer and car together. Belle wanted to play with Cody, but Cody wasn’t sure about that. You know how older (6) women are with boisterous puppies.

L to R: Beverly Miller, Sandy Childs, Marsha Marshall,
Sue Knippa, Jeff Totten, Noreene Totten,
Marilyn Kern, Jim Grime, Bill Kern, Erv Attenbury

Erv Attebury helps Carol Gosline figure out
the FRS radio

What's up Ira and Beverly?

Cody is not too sure about Bella

The trees are starting to turn colors. A naturalist told us that the red is maple. The oak will change later. We crossed the Mississippi just as we got to Brainerd. It’s gotten a lot bigger since the headwaters. The weather has gotten quite cold for a Southern Californian. 40 degrees is cold to us. But it is a lot easier to sleep at night when it’s cold.

Beautiful maple trees in the RV park

tree lined highway

the mighty M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i

After we all arrived here we had a travel meeting. We head to St. Paul in the morning. Then we had our social hour. It’s fun to meet new people while connecting with old friends. As you can see we are camped right on Crow Lake, and a few people decided to walk out on a pier to enjoy the view. It is gorgeous up here. When it got too cold for me to enjoy the company, we went and got ready to go out to eat at Famous Dave’s. Now we are home and we’re almost ready to hit the sack. Gotta drive (well Erv’s got to drive) tomorrow.