No miles and still not enough time to do a write-up?


We were down for breakfast close to 6 AM when it starts ... 8 am our time. Breakfast, apple juice option was straight water, some of the bacon was just how I like it, the fat crisp enough to melt in my mouth ... but the meat was hard enough to bust off a piece of my tooth. Knew right away from the crunch that it was more than just meat. Already have dentist appointment for a week from Tuesday. And it's a tooth that is in line for a crown for the last couple of years. Depending on what it looks like to them they may just grind it smooth until I'm ready for the crown.


Mostly we sat.


Closer to noon we went for our half hour walk and ended up next door to the Beir Garten at the Barn Burner for brunch. There was a line, I didn't ask how long but I did look at the list and there were seven groups ahead of us. The place is listed as one of the two best brunches in the area. Just now I looked online at StreetView to find the name. Google's Streetview had photoed the area in April of 2018, about a year and a half ago. Most of this mall was empty, today I don't see any empty store fronts.

(Opps, the images switch from April, 2018 to July, 2015 depending on direction you are looking at them. Now I counted the stores, it looks like room for about 17 stores if every one uses two sections)


Next choice is Milo's, we had walked past it on our way here. No line, one couple eating when we got there, a few to-go orders while we were there and no one there when we left ... at noon on a weekend. Food was good, gyro and philly.


Now BB was looking for Diet-Caffeine Coke so we go to the CVS, grocery store, gas station ... it adds steps to our walk but she was no longer keeping track.


Back at the motel we sat.


We try to be back from eating by dark so we head out later to the Sourdough & Co, a place we had walked past looking for pop. Soups and sandwiches ... like a Subway only different. We are greeted with "We will be closing in 10 minutes." Yep, they are only open until 7 PM during the week and 5 PM on Sunday's. We ordered to go. One other couple came in with 5 minutes to go, then they locked the door. We got our food right at 5 pm and walked back to the room to ... sit.


Between the two walks we likely did walk for close to an hour. Not sure we would want to over do it.


Guess I haven't mentioned this before, big room at the motel. One room is just the bed and dress, about the size of a Motel 6 room. A second room is about about 15 x 30 feet, desk, table for two, couch and chair and sink area. Nice room when we have an extra day off. And we could like get a room like this for another 10 nights by the rewards points we currently have. We are about 100 nights behind where we were last year at this time. Last year we spent 175 nights in the three major hotel chains. That doesn't count the off brands or resorts.


No big plans for Monday, we may or may not get a run but we plan on delivering about 10 Pacific time. And we will likely stay until we get work or Wednesday evening. 70 degrees here the last couple of days, snow in MN. :)