Morning of day 3

Our first stop, our 66th Mn state park in the last 2 years

Second stop, park #67

We thought about trading for this!!!!!!!!!

#68 and counting

#69, we now have only 3 parks left and this was our first day destination

I am guessing Ma and Pa out on their evening fishing trip--hope they don't have any ocean plans!!

You bet Ole just caught a BIG one--fire up the pan

A huge part of camping is what one sees, God is always the ultimate painter

The morning of day 2, if you look closely my FP is on the table!

As we drove to Fargo the lakes were glass and this boat was painting the picture of the day

We are in Jamestown ND with brother Dave and Marlys.  We had an interesting day 2.  We arrived in Fargo in time to get Terry's glasses adjusted at Lencrafters (looked them up with our car GPS-we love our GPS), then stopped at Costco and arrived at Grandma Saunders about 11:00.  Grandma is 93+ and doing quit well thank you!!  After having lunch with her we hit the road, I94 west, and by Valley City this car honked and passed us, Dale and Deb Binde, Deb was Gail's sister were on their way to Williston ND so they pulled over and we visited for some time.  As we talked Gail's brother Mark called so the only Saunders family member not in our day was her brother Allen.
We arrived at Dave's about 3:00.  We talked, we are raspberries, we picked raspberries and sat down to a steak dinner.  After dinner Dave said he made a power point program of the steps in making a classical guitar.  Dave is an amazing woodworker.  He made a guitar back in the sixties and it is beautiful.  A few years ago he made one for his daughter and now is in the process of making #3.  We watched this great power point presentation of each step in making it. (he is not finished with it yet) In the last picture he wanted to show his label on the inside which tells who made it. and there on his huge TV screen was a picture of the label which said "made by Dave V. Lee for Carmen J. Lee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I was stunned and still am this morning.  Now I have always wanted to learn to play the guitar so this winter it has to be guitar, tennis, writing and then I am not sure!  I don't think Dave could count the hours put into it but I would say they number for sure well into the 3 digits.  He made all or most of the devices for making, bending etc.  UNBELIEVABLE.

the beginning of my guitar a year ago--the form on the bottom was made by Dave

the guitar he made 40+ years ago

a closer look at Dave's work

After lunch we will hit I94 again and camp in Theodore Roosevelt NP tonight. From there we will get to MT and then to Havre on Saturday night.  As I often say, this retirement is terrible as there is never a day off and it is very difficult to keep track of what day it is.  As I write I am enjoying my third cup of Marlys' Keurig "dark magic" coffee.  It actually could rival my FP.  
I am thinking that there will be many days when we do not have internet so I am taking advantage of the days we do.
Maybe, just maybe another cup of DARK MAGIC