July 1, 2012

We got up early this morning and left camp about 9 am.  We drove to St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin and stopped at the visitors center for St. Croix National Scenic Riverway.  We drove on the scenic road along the St. Croix River from Lakeland, Minnesota to St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin.  This drive was only a small part of the National Riverway.  At the visitors center we watched a movie about the river and then continued on to Walker, Minnesota.  We got a site at an RV park just outside of town for today and tomorrow.

This is Sunday and a lot of the stores were closing at 5 pm when we drove to town.  We stopped at a park on Leech Lake and walked on a trail and found a geocache.  This one was hidden very well.  Someone took a PVC pipe and camouflaged it to look like a birch tree and attached it to two of them.  You had to figure out that the PVC pipe needed to be filled with water from the lake which made the cache container rise to the top and then you could grab it.  We then drove to town to look around and stopped at the American Legion Post to have a beer.  We went back to camp and I fixed dinner and we watched some of the Olympic trials.