Tripometer – 3264 mi
Gas Gauge – 252.968
Location – Buffalo River State Park, Glyndon, MN
Lodging – $23
Cans of OFF – 4
Apparently local ordinances for noise level expire at 8am and some of the locals haven’t set their watches. At 7:56am this morning Paul was awoken by a seaplane taking off on our little lake. The plane left the water and cruised at full throttle about 200-300 feet above the camper. Time to get up and move the house!
We bid the loons of Minnesota farewell and drove post haste to Fargo, ND. The smoke from wildfires really started to become apparent as we moved through Minnesota. For most of the later part of the day the distant hills (what hills there are in western MN) were becoming increasingly hazy and we could just start to make out the scent of smoke in the air.
Dave shipped us a package to a UPS facility in Fargo that we needed to pick up on Friday Morning (more on that later). We booked a site at a small state park just outside of town. Arriving quite late, we dropped the trailer at Buffalo River State Park in about 15 minutes flat and beat feet for a local restaurant that we ran across on Roadside America – a tourist trap finder app – Space Aliens Grill & Bar. This has to be one of the more unusual places we’ve eaten, but the food was good and we were certainly entertained. Things to note: Original Space Invaders video game glasses used as mirrors in the bathrooms, a floor to ceiling Space Invaders game in the arcade, most of the food items were theme named and there was a dead alien laid out for autopsy in the restaurant foyer.