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We arrived for our third RVICS project of this year and our second visit working at Cooperstown Bible Camp in North Dakota. Karen and I were here in 2025 from June 5 to June 26 as the only project volunteers working in the camp. It was memorable working together on constructing different items needed by the camp director Adam and we had some excitement experiencing a near miss tornado the last week of our stay in 2025. . With all our ducks in a row. This year we are praying f

The last stop in Wisconsin before crossing the Mississippi River into Minnesota was a U. S. Army Corps of Engineers campsite at Highland Ridge overlooking the sparkling Eau Galle Reservoir located in Spring Valley, in western Wisconsin. Highland Ridge has 46 campsites (35 with electric) including 8 walk-in tent sites. We booked a site in the Equestrian Loop with 10 electric campsites up on the hill with a clear view of the sky for our Starlink antenna. Our plan was to explore

Our next planned state to visit this year was Wisconsin. For the next 13 days we will explore the 'Land of Cheese'. After departing the Great Lakes Naval Station we traveled north to a Fond Du Lac County Park on the east shore of Lake Winnebago. Winnebago is originally an Indigenous Siouan-speaking tribe native to Wisconsin and Nebraska. The name itself stems from an Algonkian/Fox term loosely translating to "people of the dirty water" (referring to the fish-clogged waters of

We used our Tuesday, May 4 one day stay at Adeline Jay Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park as a waypoint to get our pass and ID credentials for Naval Station Great Lakes access. We moved on Wednesday, May 6 to the Great Lakes Naval Base RV campground. This RV venue offers small, electric-only sites with impressive lake views and quick access to walking trails and the Metra train, making visits to Chicago a breeze. RV reviewers of this Naval Base campground frequently mention

After arrival at our campsite at Indian Point on Monday we had to make a quick turnaround and drive into Springfield, Missouri. I had an audiology appointment at 3:45 PM to be evaluated for service-connected hearing loss and tinnitus. The VA was able to set it up while we were on the road. Following that appointment we had dinner with our son-in-laws parents, Tim and Diana Edgington who live in nearby Nixa, MO. On Tuesday we had lunch at the The Keeter Center, where they offe

Our next RVICS project is in June. We have time to travel the next month and a half on our way to North Dakota. So we left Colorado behind us and drove to Kansas stopping first at the Sugar Hill Golf Course in Goodland for one night. This is a Harvest Host venue and we thought about playing a round of golf but there was a high school junior varsity golf tournament the day we arrived so we passed up the opportunity and made a $30 donation. We encountered more wind driving this