Saturday, July 6, 2013

Raining like hell to end a good day

Did some sightseeing today, took some pictures and ended the day on a 3 hours train ride up the North shore. Found a lookout spot over looking down town and the industrial parts of Duluth, the day was cloudy but still got a few good pic's. Had some coffee and tea at a little joint on the lake side, met a gal working there from Mesa, Arizona, she said she liked walking on the green grass. I asked if she liked walking on the grass after is was covered with a few feet of white stuff and she said no..........you learn to bundle a lot and you also learn to appreciate the good days even though there aren't that many(her words not mine). We ate lunch at a Mexican joint in Fitger's and it turned out to be very good, Jalisco type Mexican food and it tasted like it too. From there we went across a third bridge here in Duluth which crosses over onto a long peninsula reaching out into the lake. For the most part while driving to the end of the peninsula we could see water off each side of the single road running the length of the peninsula. For the most part this couldn't be more that two football fields wide and to enter you crossed a hydraulic bridge where the deck was raised up and down to let the big ships pass through. This was amazing and something we had never seen anything like it before(pic's on FB). From there we had a date with a train, the North Shore Scenic railroad, a three hour train hide up the North shore with pizza, beer and soda and other snacks served while traveling. This was very relaxing but not very scenic. Bev and I seen far more super scenery driving up the North shore the day before, but still enjoyed the company and the relaxing train ride.................................... Like I start off with, it started pouring down rain as soon as we left the depot and hasn't really quit some 3 plus hours later. Very heavy rains and we have a small leak where the rear A/C unit is with a cover (which will be fixed on Tuesday, pray for no more rain until after that). Tomorrow morning it's breakfast with our friends the Nelson's and the last we'll see of them until we meet again on the golf course at Orange wood village in Phoenix. We will thank them for their hospitality and the golfing we shared, their days are full Sunday and Monday and we hope to leave Tuesday if repairs go smoothly. The next couple of days will be most likely largely uneventful, maybe laundry, reading, and just relaxing and maybe doing some cleaning of the coach.

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