{"id":13769,"date":"2012-04-20T15:45:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13769"},"modified":"2016-09-17T21:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T18:31:32","slug":"heaven-im-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/heaven-im-in-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven, I’m In Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s travels took me from Minot to Hankinson by way of Bismarck and Fargo. Google Maps had a more direct route, but my GPS kept arguing with me and I decided that an extra few kilometres weren’t a big deal. The roads were good and clear, but I had rain and grey sky all the way to Oriska.<\/p>\n

I have to share a story about the last time I was in Fargo. It was like being in a Mr. Bean movie. I came into a mess of construction and got stuck in a roundabout with no idea which way to go. This was in the days before GPS and I didn’t have a detailed map of the city. I must have driven around that roundabout 50 times before a construction worker took pity on me, flagged me down, and told me which way to go! Today’s travels through the city were uneventful.<\/p>\n

I am now parked at the Dakota Magic Casino and Resort<\/a>, which has a full hookup RV park on the edge of its parking lot. I had expected power only to be on at this time of the year, but nope. I’m so excited that I’ll be able to take a long shower tonight. \ud83d\ude42 I have tons of stuff to catch up on, so I’ve decided to stay for three, possibly four, nights. The rate is $31.50… for three nights. That’s right, FHU for just $10 a night!!! And my internet connection works here. What a nice respite this will be! Since I’ve gone through half a tank of propane in the last week, I hooked up Gary’s present<\/a> since I’ll be here for a few days and save the on board propane for when I’m moving down the road.<\/p>\n

I had planned to spend a couple of nights here and am only a couple of nights behind schedule since I left Lethbridge early, but I am going to have to start boogeying if I want to get to Virginia for May 1st. I have a couple of itineraries in mind and not being in too much of a hurry to cross the Mississippi, I am tempted to keep going due south to Kansas City and then straight east to Virginia. The slightly more direct option is to get back on I-94, skirt around Minneapolis, detour to Cedar Rapids to avoid Chicagoland, and then shoot eastwards. The first option is barely longer and more appealing since I have done most of the second option already. I am concerned about the the severity of the current tornado season in the mid-west, however. I welcome any thoughts on both options and, yes, I know that I need to get a weather radio. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Ooh, I almost forgot. I actually took pictures today!<\/p>\n

\"grey<\/a>

grey sodden prairie; sick of the first two, but never of the third<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Apple<\/a>

Apple Creek Rest Area<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Apple<\/a>

Apple Creek Rest Area<\/p><\/div>\n

\"the<\/a>

the Oriska rest area is in the middle of the divided highway; you have to exit left<\/p><\/div>\n

\"the<\/a>

the Oriska rest area is in the middle of the divided highway; you have to exit left<\/p><\/div>\n

\"this<\/a>

this section south of Fargo reminds me of autoroute 10 in Quebec!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"parked<\/a>

parked at Dakota Magic facing the casino<\/p><\/div>\n

\"parked<\/a>

parked at Dakota Magic facing the prairies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s travels took me from Minot to Hankinson by way of Bismarck and Fargo. Google Maps had a more direct route, but my GPS kept arguing with me and I decided that an extra few kilometres weren’t a big deal. The roads were good and clear, but I had rain and grey sky all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,1154,1187,1253,635,1034,1281,5,3,16],"tags":[853,1473],"class_list":["post-13769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bismarck","category-fargo","category-hankinson","category-minot","category-north-america","category-north-dakota","category-oriska","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa","tag-accommodation","tag-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}