Yesterday’s rain cloud did have a silver lining. We scored a state park campsite with electric. We’d been unsuccessful on Friday, not surprising since weekends in July are high season in northern campgrounds. On Friday we ended up at a KOA near Minneapolis and that did give us the chance to do laundry! Yesterday as we headed north out of Elk River we called ahead and discovered that the park at Little Falls did have a weather related cancellation and we were welcome to the one available electric site of one night. We could stay beyond that if we were willing to switch sites on Sunday. Sold! So we arrived and set up in the rain on #7 at Charles A. Lindberg State Park. This morning we moved to #1 for two more nights. The bad news, recent rains have caused the onset of mosquito season. The good news is that our yard guard spray and Thermacell units are keeping the little blood suckers at bay around our T@B although the portable unit isn’t effective enough for hiking. More good news is that the heat wave seems to have abated. We’ve worn jeans all day and even started the morning out with long sleeves. We did some housekeeping today and went into town for haircuts, a water pressure regulator, and charcoal. Tomorrow we plan to take Eric the Red into town for routine service. And we plan to explore the area some more before our visit here is finished.
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