May 13, 2015. History repeats itself. Four years ago, May 13, 2011, we found ourselves in Tea, SD, on the first night of our long awaited driving trip to Alaska. We spent the night in the Red Barn Campground. I slighted the campground by posting a picture of a red shed - see the next to the last photo above - and referring to it as "The Red Barn". We arrived at the same campground a little earlier today and walked around the campground before dark. The last picture on this page is the actual red barn, presumably the one after which the campground is named. My apologies to the proprietor. I intended no insult. I was just ignorant.
We have critters with us. The critters are on loan from the grandchildren and BJ. We promised to photograph them as we travel across Canada and the US, exposing them to more than 5000 miles of North America. The second photo above is the critters resting on the windshield, waiting for us to depart. The other two pictures show them taking a buckboard ride, here at the campground.
There are a couple of just interesting pictures on this page. One is an old clapboard shed, the owner of which evidently receives satellite TV. The second is a scarred, dead tree. The puffy circle is a growth where one of its limbs was removed. It looks like one of those whoopee cushions Annie Farkley used following one of her many pregnancies.
Now, the common theme of this trip with others we've taken recently: the engine warning light came on today as we neared Sioux Falls, SD. I don't know what it means and the owner's manual doesn't know what it means. It could mean I am out of fuel. I am not. I refilled 20 miles back. It could mean the diesel emission device requires more DEF. It doesn't. I filled the DEF tank yesterday. Annie Farkley, the book and I don't know what the light is trying to tell us. We are hoping the Mercedes service manager in Sioux Falls can tell us at 10:00 AM tomorrow.
And, so it goes.
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