I’ve made it 10,000 miles as of this week! What a ride.
Guess what I did yesterday… if you guessed got my nails done, you’d be wrong. If you guessed I sat in an RV repair shop again, you’d be right. I had the RV checked out by a mechanic in Fargo while I was back in Vista and he put in the rebuilt carburator and replaced the fuel pump, but I guess he didn’t notice that the spark plug wires were falling apart. But, I lucked out and found another really nice mechanic who dropped what he was doing and got right on Big Red and had me rolling within a couple of hours. Between the weather and the roads here I’m afraid to think of what might be jiggling loose next. And as I write this, hail the size of marbles are dropping from the sky and lightening and thunder cracking right above me.
HAIL OF A WAY TO START THE MORNING!
Minnesota is an interesting place alright. Everybody here talks like Louie Anderson but they’re not as funny as he is, ya know. And the weather has been rainy most of the time. So between the weather and the RV repairs, I am at least a day behind my schedule, which by the way is posted now if you want to see where I am going on this leg. More stops in fewer states and a real zigzag route as my daughter will be joining me for a bit and we will be visiting family and friends in Illinois and Wisconsin.
LAKE DETROIT IN DETROIT LAKES
Today I will be visiting a few more hospitals and pediatric clinics in Minneapolis and then I head to Rochester, then Ames, Iowa. I wasn’t very welcome at the St. Paul Children’s Hospital yesterday. The stiff shirt at the desk had specific protocol to follow and he isn’t the type to bend the rules, at all. I did manage to get him to give me the phone number of the education directors at both St. Paul and 
Minneapolis hospitals and after calling Minneapolis was given directions to the edu department where I was and so I was able to pass the brochures on directly there and will meet with the director in Minneapolis today. Nobody is going to turn me away after I have travelled this far to bring them information about ALD, by cracky! And especially after weathering the elements here.
CRAZEE DAZE
I passed through a little town called Brainerd and saw this sign in the center of town advertising an event that featured a paper plate toss. I didn’t stick around there long. I was kind of afraid to meet any of the locals that do that as a sport. I also drove through the town of Sawyer
and this was the city center.
Well, I need to get back on the road, so I will try to post again soon. I urge any of you to contact Oprah, Ellen, Matt Lauer, Larry King, People Magazine, you name it, and tell them about my journey. Ciao for now!