It's been a full several days, visiting several groups or families each day.
As we landed in the Minneapolis area, we parked in the driveway of Greg and Penny, a nephew by Gail’s sister and his wife. We were also met by grandson Vincent who sends afternoons with grandma until his parents finish their workdays. Greg has been a musician throughout his education, his early career and now in retirement. There was a stretch when he worked IT security. Now he plays bass with several groups and builds string instruments, most recently ukuleles.
The next morning, we stopped by for tea and bagels at my second cousin on my father’s side – Marlene Hoerauf and Don Walth. We’ve been in contact periodically over the years regarding family history. She has boxes of family data and stories. Exciting!
That evening we drove a bit south for a meal with cousins Harley and Keith Saxowsky and their spouses Teresa and Suzanne. Harley is retired IT. Keith is retired as well and spent some of the winter in southern Arizona where he has engaged in creating stained glass windows and with the aid of a community kiln fused glass bowls.
Our final morning in the Twin Cities area was with Gail’s nephew and spouse, Bill and Cherie Cameron. Unfortunately we didn’t get to see all the relatives in the area, eg Avis’ daughter Sharla and family, my brother David’s daughter Stacey and family, and Gail’s nephew Gerry. I guess this is an opening for another trip.
Thursday we headed toward the South Dakota border stopping in Campbell to visiting college friends, Betty Jo and Al Kvidt. She served as a bridesmaid at our wedding. He with her support has always has had a strong interest in sports resulting in a collection of more than 400 signed baseballs and over 600 boggle-head statutes of pro athletes. They have also visited every major league baseball stadium in the United States with a framed collage of all the games’ tickets to verify it.
From there we drove a couple hours north to Sebeka where plugged in the electric cord to the house of a niece and husband, Maureen and Jim Dragseth, a pair of lifelong teachers now retired. Our visit was over breakfast. They enjoyed traveling including camping around much of the USA and touring Alaska and parts of Central America. The stories were invigorating and enticing.
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