Red Wing

July 26-28, 2019
Treasure Island RV Park
Red Wing, MN

Thankfully, we didn't have to try to put our nose in the air and make the steep climb to get on our highway to depart Duluth.  

We were able to turn left long before the incline headed for the sky.

Our uneventful travel took us to our next destination which, as it turns out was perfect timing.  We are departing this area on the 29th and the road that takes us quickly from the RV Park into Red Wing closes on the 30th for road work.  Whew!!!  Although, if the road was closed, maybe that would have meant that Momma and Dad would have hung around the rig longer and I would have been able to get some extra games of ball toss/fetch in during our stay.  We have the perfect set up.  We are in a back up site on Row A on the far end.

Just check out all that green grass behind our rig.  Super for ball fetching.

The rest of the park is made up of pull thru sites that don't have the delightful backyard we have.  I wonder if Momma planned it that way?  

Well, seeing as the hwy to Red Wing hasn't been closed off yet, Momma and Dad went exploring....and what did they find?

The World's Largest Boot coming in at 2300 pounds made in the USA right here at the Red Wing factory.  Just check out that lace.  Dad can barely get his hand around it....and he had to go to the second story/level to reach it. 

The boot was in the museum section of the Red Wing Shoe store.  They even had a collection of well worn boots that stood up to the working man's challenge of hard labor.

Now this is not your everyday sewing machine.  Most of the work performed to produce a boot or shoe is still handcrafted to ensure quality.  

On the other hand,  the Red Wing Pottery Factory is no longer in business.  Handcrafted pottery and crocks just couldn't compete with mass production and they closed the factory in 1967.  The huge brick buildings have been remodeled into businesses, shops and the pottery museum.  In the present day,  don't use crocks as our great grandparents did.

Even the hand painted dinnerware have become collectible items.  Just check out all the patterns.

Red Wing is a pretty community of about 16,500. The streets are lined with flowers with a lovely park in the midst of all the shops.

And the city was established by the water.

Have you ever seen floating boat houses that sit right on the water and raise and lower as the water level changes.  The buildings are loosely attached to poles in the corners to keep them from losing  position and floating into one another.  This is the Red Wing Yacht Club.

Personally, I like my home/rig to be on land where there is lots of room to stretch out, exercise and run faster than the wind.

I'm Chloe