More Lake Poinsett

We have been mostly taking it easy. Joe working a little but both of us have been doing a lot of reading. No TV due to so many trees. We did go out on the Lake kayaking and had an enjoyable few hours doing that. There were very few people during the week but more started coming in for the weekend. It was never filled completely though. We decided to stay through Monday instead of leaving Sunday as per our original plans. Sunday it had been clear and warm. However in the afternoon it started getting cloudy and looked like rain. All of a sudden, it started getting real windy and the waves started getting bigger and were crossing over the sandbags and under the motor home. As we had heard that the previous week had waves on the lake up to 5 feet, we decided to move to higher ground. We packed and moved up to the next level where we were in even more trees and still had a nice view of the water. We certainly have been getting into all types of different weather. Nothing like SO Cal. Took picture of another nice sunset from our new spot.

Biking, Swimming at Lake Poinsett

The weather is so very close to a time we spent in the Dominican Republic. It is uncanny. It is warm and has a very pleasant breeze. Just love waking up to the sounds of the water lapping up against the rocks. Just pure heaven. It makes the rereading of Nick's Blog (one of the blogs we follow of some other nomads traveling around this great country of ours) today so evermore prevalent. Those of us who are capturing this dream are truly blessed. I cannot not even explain the pure solitude we are currently enjoying.

We took a little bike ride around the campground. Later in the afternoon we took a swim right outside our camp spot. Whether we were inside or sitting outside under the awning, our views are fantastic. Being in the water. it again made us realize how much the water has increased. We found out that there should have been more than 20 feet of shosre line instead of none that it has now. We were barely out 3 feet from the shore and we were on our toes to keep our head out of water. It certainly shows the crazy weather patterns our country is currently experiencing. In our travels in the last couple of months we have seen many draught areas and we are now seeing areas of too much normal moisture.

Down the Road Again

The last three days at Rapid City we didn't do too much. We caught up on work, blog, updating addresses for our different accounts, etc and some shopping before we took off. Everytime someone new came into the rv resort now they had motorcycles. It is still a week to the Sturgis run. I can't even image what it will be like next week. In fact , when we left and started ending east towards Lake Poinsett, our next stop, we constantly saw people on motorcycles and trikes, or with motorhomes with trailers filled with bikes. We left around 10 AM and with time change, losing another hour, and stopping for gas and to make ourselves some lunch, it was 700 PM before we got to Lake Poinsett. It is near Arlington and is almost at the SD/Minnesota border. I do a few pictures on the way there. One of the rolled up hay that we saw everywhere. What can I say, I am a girl from Suburbia and thought it was interesting to see. Other picture taken from the car was taken as we drove over the Missouri River.

Long day. However, when we drove into the site and saw our spot, we were excited to see that we have another great place to stay. We are right on the water. THis is the closest to water we have ever been. In fact a little closer than we normally would have been here at the Lake. Unlike other lakes we have been to recently that are way down, this Lake is up from normal. They had an early thaw and then a lot of rain. In one of the pictures here you will see the rocks and sandbags they had to add. There was a pathway where the rocks were that is now 3 or 4 feet under water. About a week ago, they had a hugh storm and many of the summer homes along the lake were flooded.