June 30, 2012

We had a relaxing morning, ate breakfast (cereal with dewberries), took showers and waited for the people in site 82 to leave.  They left before 10 am and we moved to that site.  We then drove to St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis and walked the Heritage Trail across the stone arch bridge and by the lock and dam.  This is part of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area.  It has the only waterfall on the Mississippi River. There are ruins of the old Gold Medal flour mill alongside the river.  Along the trail we found two geocaches.

We left downtown and drove to Herkimer Brewing.  We couldn’t find a parking place until we discovered VFW post #246 next door.  We parked in the VFW parking lot and went in and had a beer. They were playing bingo.  They told us they had just sold the air rights to their parking lot for $1.2 million.  A paking garage will be built but the ground floor will be reserved for VFW parking.  Then we went next door to Herkimer Brewing and had a couple of beers and some fish tacos and some onion rings.  The onion rings were really good – lightly battered tempura style.  Their german style beers were also very good – Jim had an altbier and I had an amber goze.  Then we drove to Fulton Brewing and it was really crowded with people going to the Twins baseball game.  Jim and I shared an IPA which we didn’t care for.  We drove back to camp and I made stir fry chicken and Thai Sweet Chili Lo Mein Noodles.