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8/24 - 8/26/2007 |
Our location - Casselton, ND
Governor's Inn |
Went we left Oelwein, we went to Fairmont MN and stayed at the Flying Geese RV park we stayed in last year. Then we went to Emery
and stayed at Hyatt's Green Acres, our home base.
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The northeast corner of South Dakota has beautiful rolling hills. |
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Lots of wind in these northern plains states. Good for windmill generators. |
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They say when the wind is blowing, North Dakota could generate the country's entire electrical power needs with windmill
generators.
But the lack of a power grid keeps that from being a reality. |
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Welcome to North Dakota. |
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The Governor's Inn
 is a conference center hotel with a indoor swimming water park.
The campground is run like a motel, you pay at checkout.
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Casselton is about 12 miles west of Fargo North Dakota. |
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The sites are simple but quite large.
They have an interesting layout with pull-thrus interlaced with small back-in sites. There is a back-in site behind
Sparky and the motorhome behind Tige. |
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We came to the Fargo area to visit Walcott North Dakota. Our dearly departed friend Ken Nehmer had his first ministry in Walcott
and we came to see his first church. |
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Walcott has grown up and even has rules now. |
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The main business of Walcott is the grain elevator operation. |
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The Post Office. |
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This used to be the grocery store. It is an antique shop now.
No other stores in Walcott today. |
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Ken Nehmer's first church. |
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The Walcott Lutheran Church. |
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The church has a female pastor. This is interesting as Ken's wife, Lois went into the ministry in her 70's and
had a church in Baltimore today. |
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The pastor's residence in Walcott. Ken and Lois needed a big house for all their kids. |
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