8th-10th June: Days 61-63
Firstly, this town has a very cool name. Secondly, we have reached our first significant body of water since leaving Seattle: Lake of the Woods. Ever heard of it? No, us neither. Just a small 4000 sq miles of lake, right on the border with Canada and a fishing mecca. Walleye is the fishy prize. Never heard of that either.
Warroad is an affluent little town although strangely a bit shabby and very uncommercialised from a tourist point of view. I think the locals are too busy fishing to have time to mow their lawns. There are 2 major businesses here. Marvin Windows and Doors, which employs 1000 people more than the total town population and Christian, which makes ice hockey sticks. Warroad is also known as ‘Hockey Town’.
Bob Marvin has sunk his expendable loot into many things around town to help the local population, but his personal passion is American muscle cars. He has built a shed on the main road into town which houses his quite amazing personal car collection. This is free entry with no extra charge for drooling. We spent a fantastic hour and a half in here and had an ad hoc private tour from the caretaker. He let us sit in some cars and even briefly started a couple up for us too.
The collection contains far too many special cars to detail but does contain Corvette vin number 1
Our campsite was an enormous wooded municipal campground which was 99% occupied by permanent rigs here for the whole season, year on year. We felt a bit out of place, as journeymen, but it was quiet and spacious. Our second night here we found ourself in the path of a massive storm with the potential for tornados and mega-hail. Luckily the tornados didn’t materialise but the thunder, lightning and rain was epic.