Travel Blog

Ha! You thought I was done with the beet titles. I still had one in me. And a friend from AccuWeather emailed me
and called me at Beetnik, which I thought was very clever. Thanks, Michelle!

The last night of the beet harvest was very uneventful. We felt guilty taking the 20 bucks an hour (ok, no we didn’t)
because a rundown of the night is as follows:

8:00 p.m. - show up for work
9:00 p.m. - first truck comes to our piler
9:30 p.m. - second truck
10:00 p.m. - pizza break
10:30 p.m. - normal break for me and Phil
11:00 p.m. - were told to take 2-hour break because no trucks were coming
1:00 a.m. - third and fourth truck
2:00 a.m. - were told last truck of the night just left
3:00 a.m. - cleaned piler
3:30 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. - talked to our coworkers in the heated scale house until we were sent home

And I complained about this job? What’s my problem?

We’re in Wisconsin now. I like what I’ve seen of this state so far. Very pretty. I think it was my first Great Lake
experience as well. This is as good a shot as I could get of Lake Superior from the truck:

We’ll be motoring through Michigan, staying the night in Mackinaw City, then it’s somewhere in Ohio for the next
night, and then it’s Carrolltown, PA. We could drive longer days, but in order for us to put our state stickers on our
RV map, we have to stay a night in our RV in that state, so we’re picking up all those states on the way.

I like the park we’re in now except that they already have the water at the sites turned off for the winter so we had
to pay to shower. There’s just something wrong with coin-operated showers. That’s just my opinion. And it was
nice to shuffle through leaves for the first time in three years.

There’s not much else to report for now. I’ll leave you with a picture of a cocky Xander and the evil cats.