15 Jun 2020 - At Clear Lake State Park

15 Jun 2020
Sorry it has been a while since I posted here.  Until we get out of Iowa there won't be much new going on.

Today we moved from Little Wall Lake near Jewell IA to Clear Lake State Park in Clear Lake IA.  The trip was only 60 miles but took us almost two hours!   We will be here a week, departing on Monday 22 June and heading for Sauk Centre MN.  This is our route from Little Wall Lake to Clear Lake:

 We took advantage of some spare time to stop at a truck stop on I-35 and weigh our new trailer.  It is loaded for the trip with clothes and provisions, so what it weighs now is pretty typical.  We weighed it attached to the truck and then weighed the truck alone and were able to figure our truck weight, trailer weight and pin weight.  We have a lot of towing capacity with our RAM 3500 so no issues with the numbers.  Now we know for sure!

The State Park is one of our favorite camping locations.  We were lucky enough to get a full hook up site this time, although our tanks have adequate capacity to allow us to camp longer than a week without dumping.  The beach area this evening:

We have several friends we plan to see while we are here. 
 - Terry and Merlea Schultz:  Terry and I served in the Iowa Air National Guard together.
 - Mike and Narelle O'Brien:  Mike, Doreen and I went to high school together - Northern University High School Class of 1973
- Julie Jepsen Johnson:  Another high school classmate!
We will also likely stop by "The Other Place" pizza restaurant where Brian Hagenow, another high school classmate is the manager.  They have the most awesome pizza too!

Other than that we don't have a lot of plans for the Clear Lake area.  The wind at Little Wall Lake really kicked up the dust, so I took it to the car wash this afternoon and cleaned it up.  That's about it for today.