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Today I worked a half-day for Day Jobbe, as I have to do on Tuesday. This went a little longer than I had planned. I also was working on some other plans, like trying to find an auto air conditioning repair shop in Winnipeg not too far from the Convention Center area. (I called a couple; the first one was a Volvo specialist, but the second told me to bring it in and they would have a look at it. More about this later this week.) Consequently, we did not get away from Glendive MT until nearly Noon. Our goal was the North Dakota State Railroad Museum in Mandan (Bismark's western suburb). That's about 200 miles.
( Cutting Things Fine )
We were very grateful for the guided tour, and we dropped money into the contribution box and also bought a book about the Northern Pacific. It's difficult for us to visit a railroad museum without buying books.
After leaving the museum, we headed across the Missouri River to Bismarck for another railroad-related photo stop.
( To the Merci Train )
Having managed to tick off the two significant things on our to-do list today, we left Bismarck for tonight's hotel and our final night on the road before we get to Winnipeg.
( Turbines in Tow )
We reached the Holiday Inn Express in Jamestown ND shortly after 8 PM. After getting moved in, I discovered that my initial expectation of another Pizza Hut delivery was out of whack: there used to be a Pizza Hut in this city, but it had closed years ago. By the time we realized this, many other local places we might have tried had already closed at 9 PM. Weighing our options, Lisa and I decided to rush off to a local grocery store. We got there about 9:30, with the store closing at 10 PM. Fortunately, we had a good idea what we wanted. We got milk, juice, frozen meals to cook in the room's microwave oven, cold cuts, and, rather to our surprise, a loaf of Dave's Killer Bread; we did not expect to see Dave's bread this far east.
Returning to the hotel, we prepared our dinner and relaxed over another episode of Emergency!.
We had planned to do some laundry tonight, but we got an unwelcome surprise: unlike nearly every other Holiday Inn Express in the USA in which we've stayed, this one does not have a guest laundry. Had we known that, we would probably have tried to do laundry last night and this morning, which would have been pretty easy, because the laundry room at Glendive was diagonally opposite our hotel room and had three or four machines. Fortunately, the Delta Hotel Winnipeg appears to have a guest self-service laundry facility, so maybe we'll get a chance to do laundry sometime in the next few days during NASFiC and before we leave for Churchill two days after the convention.
Tomorrow we push on to Winnipeg, and move-in begins for Pemmi-Con.
( Cutting Things Fine )
We were very grateful for the guided tour, and we dropped money into the contribution box and also bought a book about the Northern Pacific. It's difficult for us to visit a railroad museum without buying books.
After leaving the museum, we headed across the Missouri River to Bismarck for another railroad-related photo stop.
( To the Merci Train )
Having managed to tick off the two significant things on our to-do list today, we left Bismarck for tonight's hotel and our final night on the road before we get to Winnipeg.
( Turbines in Tow )
We reached the Holiday Inn Express in Jamestown ND shortly after 8 PM. After getting moved in, I discovered that my initial expectation of another Pizza Hut delivery was out of whack: there used to be a Pizza Hut in this city, but it had closed years ago. By the time we realized this, many other local places we might have tried had already closed at 9 PM. Weighing our options, Lisa and I decided to rush off to a local grocery store. We got there about 9:30, with the store closing at 10 PM. Fortunately, we had a good idea what we wanted. We got milk, juice, frozen meals to cook in the room's microwave oven, cold cuts, and, rather to our surprise, a loaf of Dave's Killer Bread; we did not expect to see Dave's bread this far east.
Returning to the hotel, we prepared our dinner and relaxed over another episode of Emergency!.
We had planned to do some laundry tonight, but we got an unwelcome surprise: unlike nearly every other Holiday Inn Express in the USA in which we've stayed, this one does not have a guest laundry. Had we known that, we would probably have tried to do laundry last night and this morning, which would have been pretty easy, because the laundry room at Glendive was diagonally opposite our hotel room and had three or four machines. Fortunately, the Delta Hotel Winnipeg appears to have a guest self-service laundry facility, so maybe we'll get a chance to do laundry sometime in the next few days during NASFiC and before we leave for Churchill two days after the convention.
Tomorrow we push on to Winnipeg, and move-in begins for Pemmi-Con.
