Making Good Progress

 Christopher’s currently driving, so I’m doing this post from I-94, somewhere between Minneapolis & Fargo.

After 13 hours on the road yesterday, we stayed at a hotel in Rockford, IL last night and left there around 10 this morning. Our next stop brought us to Craig & Mary’s house in Minnesota for some much needed time out of the car, some great family time, & an awesome dinner! 

Christopher got a family history lesson from Craig and saw some really cool heirlooms, including Christopher’s Great-Great Grandfather’s desk, which still contains correspondence from the 1850’s and the table from his McDowell, VA house that was used as an operating room table during the Civil War battle there. Moose enjoyed the freedom of their fenced-in backyard with lots of shrubbery (he made sure to mark them all as his territory).

If all goes well tonight, we’ll arrive at our ND hunting spot around 2am. The plan is to set our decoys & then catch a couple hours of sleep in the car before our first ND sunrise with skies filled with ducks!

Moose has been a very good boy thus far & is making himself quite comfortable in the backseat, though now always leaving Christopher a lot of room!!!