Day 6: Service in MN

It was nice to sleep in this morning. Well, my alarm was set for 0900, but I was awake at 0500 😞. I goofed around the hotel room and finally left at 0900. I had to hit Walmart before my service appointment to get fishing line and sinkers.

After HD took the bike to the back for her 55,000-mile service, I took out my new supplies and began working on my tent pole. Five minutes later, success! Tent pole back in one piece and fully operational! Yay!

Then I had nothing to do the rest of the 2 hours and 55 minutes but goof on my phone 🤣.

The service at Twin Cities North went well, and I was able to redeem $250 from my Harley app points 😁. From there, I got going on my circuit of Minneapolis - St Paul to get the rest of the HDs.

After the second one, I stopped at a KFC for a hot meal. I saw that the dealer had called me, but I didn't realize why until I went to pay for my lunch. No wallet 😭. It was back at the HD in Blaine on the north side of Minneapolis. I was on the far south side 😭.

Without eating of course, I kept going to the next HD since it was sort of on the way back to Blaine. The extra trip only cost me about 30 miles, which is remarkable considering normally I would have been about 150 miles away before stopping to look at my phone messages during the next gas stop. Lucky me.

After I got out of the city, the ride got better. The last HD I hit, Apol's in the teeny tiny town of Raymond, wasn't a place I could sleep at, so I kept going to my next destination. Unfortunately, my next two stops were both Tour of Honor locations, so I looked at my GPS to see if there was anywhere to stay nearby. Lo and behold, one of my freecamp sites from the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge in 2022 was very close. So, here I am in the even tinier town of Russell at the abandoned gas station next to the railroad tracks, again 😁. This time I'm in my newly repaired tent. A winning day overall!

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