I went for a long morning walk and the parking lot at the Fargo Air Museum filled up while I was gone. Tony was working and hadn’t noticed. I thought this was weirdly popular for a Wednesday morning. We moved the van as we were taking up four spots from our overnight parking, and found Veterans inside enjoying a coffee-and-donuts monthly meet. This museum is on the Hector International Airport grounds along with Air and Army National Guard units. I walked a little over six miles on a wide bike path that followed the east side of the airport and ended in Riverwood Park.

The Museum has two hangers with some planes that still fly. One really nice part I liked was the research library with years of magazines and books. There was lots of history to read and digest. The Flying Tiger exhibit had a jacket that said the back translated as something like, “this foreigner is fighting against the Japanese to help China. Rescue, protect and provide medical care” in case a pilot was incapacitated. It’s called a blood chit and was used in other wars as well.

You have to appreciate a city that embraces a movie that put it on the map. The visitor’s center has a wood chipper outside for photo ops in case you want to put pets in it or arrive when the center is closed. The real one used in the movie Fargo is inside. The wood chipper even gets its own website—www.thewoodchipper.org—a Facebook page with pics and merch.

We spent the afternoon in Lindenwood Park which has beautiful flower beds along Roger Maris Drive. There is a bridge that crosses the Red River which puts you on the Minnesota side in their Gooseberry Mound Park. We are spending the night in the Lindenwood Park which has camping sites. The electricity for site 13B is pretty far from the parking spot so we had to dig out the extension cord from under the bed and use it for the very first time. We have the Red River right in front of us which is a pretty view. They gave us a key card for the showers and they are nice.