Minnesota to Wisconsin

It seemed to us that whichever way we decided to travel north or east, bad weather was ahead of us for the next five days showing more rain and thunderstorms, so we stayed longer than we wanted to in Minnesota.  We found it quite difficult both in Minnesota and Wisconsin to find sites that were big enough for our rig and truck, especially if we only wished to stay for one night and not unhitch.  The roads were mostly well maintained  here and this is typical of one of the good roads in MN.  These northern states have heavy snowfall during winter and we saw snowmobile crossing signs for the first time.

Many of the huge casinos located mostly in Indian Nation Territory now have RV resorts along with Hotels and many self-contained RVers are allowed to park free in certain areas for some nights.  Although we are self-contained, we neither have a generator nor solar to power our electricity so we nearly always park with hook-ups at least for electric and water.  Not finding another campground available, we stayed at Grand Casino in Hinckley, near the border of Wisconsin for a few nights. 

Grand Casino and RV Park, Hinckley, MN

Often casino RV parks are cheaper to stay in than private ones. Although the larger casinos often have a variety of restaurants including huge buffets, we found a really pleasant restaurant just down the road, called Tobie’s, which was also a bakery (they’re just so hard to resist) and had a great breakfast before leaving the state and naturally had to buy some of their homemade wheat-raisin bread and a couple of donuts.