October 16th - On the road again

Got away at 8:30 am, feeling guilt-ridden at abandoning our old cat to winter (and a terrible look she had on her face; she knew we were leaving)  Good thing our house-sitting Niece takes such good care of her.  We tried taking Old Cat on the road once, to see if she was up to the trip south.  Nope.  Just north of Winnipeg, coincidentally, my Uncle pulled up along-side, snapping photos.  Should he forward one to our email, we will include a rare, external-while-underway shot.

The US border crossing took 8 minutes, including a boarding and cursory inspection for green onions, lamb in the dog food, and house plants, by a nice young officer.  It has been a lovely warm, sunny day for travelling, albeit with a 40 mile per hour south wind (bad for mileage) backing into a 90 degree cross west wind (bad for mileage and a handful to stampede the RV down the road).  The dash heating control (select defrost/dash/footwell/AC/Max AC) seems to be mis-functioning, hopefully just a vacuum leak, since the dash AC will be necessary once further south.  We will get it looked at once we are at a larger city down south.

El Valiente is also infested with Asian beetles, the evil twin of the nice little lady bug.  We spent the drive picking, swatting, getting bitten by the foul-smelling vermin, and otherwise doing combat the whole day south.  Dakota Magic Casino is under renovation, so we just parked up in the car parking lot.

517 Km.