May 28, 2016. Paul and Babe in Bemidji, MN. Paul Bunyan's phone rang, so I answered it. I heard a couple of clicks then a monotone feminine voice said, "This is the credit card service company. There is no problem with your card . . . " I hung up and looked for the call blocker button on the phone. There wasn't one. I don't know how Paul avoided getting robocalls during the dinner hour.
The statue of Paul and Babe are pretty impressive. Paul stands eighteen feet high and Babe's horns are 14 feet wide and he weighs five tons. Paul is said to have built Niagara Falls for a shower bath and to have dug Lake Superior as a watering hole for Babe. Every time he sneezed he would blow the roof off the bunkhouse. It took five large storks, working overtime, to deliver Paul to his parents.
We are in Bemidji, 25 miles from Itasca State Park and the headwaters of the mighty Mississippi River. We passed over the Mississippi this afternoon on our way here. It was about the size of the Marmaton River, only the water was green instead of brown. Tomorrow we will go to the park and see where the river flows out of Lake Itasca. It is said that you can step over the river at that point. That's hard to imagine. My memories of the river are from Hannibal and Memphis, where it spans the better part of a mile.
We are beginning the third leg of our spring trip. We will be home the second half of the week of June 6. We miss you and look forward to seeing you soon.
Goodnight.
2 comments:
Oh, those credit card calls at the dinner hour. No escape.
You get home right as we take off! We're headed to Estes on the 8th!
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