2 May
If you follow along on our travels once in a while you will see "NSTR", or nothing significant to report! Not every day on our journey is packed full of travel and adventures. Some days like this we just hunker down and get a few things done in the camper. So, NSTR for today, our last day at Little Wall Lake.
Still very few brave campers here. With over 100 RV spots, I can count the campers on one hand and have fingers left over. Temps in the 40's with "feel-like" temps in the 30's, and we are headed further north tomorrow. What the heck are we thinking? Oh, there are better days ahead! No worries!
Rain this afternoon into this evening all the way to tomorrow when we depart. So after lunch I slipped out and emptied the sewer tanks, thoroughly flushed the black tank and uploaded some fresh water to get us by until tomorrow. By doing that I could stow the sewer hose and the fresh water hose so that when we leave tomorrow there will be less things to pick up while it is raining. We also try to travel with mostly empty tanks just to minimize the weight we carry. The more weight, the more fuel. Just down the street diesel is $5.19/gal.
So tomorrow we pull chocks and head northbound to Clear Lake Iowa. We have many friends who live there and really enjoy camping at the State Park campground. Rock n' roll fans know the significance of Clear Lake. It is the home of the nostalgic Surf Ballroom where, on February 2 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson played their last gig - the Day the Music Died.. Their plane crashed in bad weather just north of town on the edge of a corn field. The site is marked on the road. But the Surf lives on today and so does Clear Lake - a great Iowa treasure.
Next report - Clear Lake State Park!
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