This morning we left Winnipeg and headed south, crossing the Canadian/US border at Pembina, North Dakota. This must be a popular crossing—we had to wait in line a long time. When we got to the window and handed over our passports, the officer asked if we had bought anything in Canada. We told him about the Calgary Stampede hat, and then he asked if we had any food, like fruit or meat. I said yes, and we were asked to pull over for another officer to inspect us. He confiscated all our citrus fruit and our two apples. We had peeled all the grapefruit, hoping that would suffice, but it didn’t help. We could have kept the apples if they had had tags indicating they were grown in the US. He didn’t bother the strawberries, blueberries, or cantaloupe, fortunately.
It took 45 minutes altogether to clear customs, and then we were on our way to Grand Forks to pick up our mail at General Delivery, but unfortunately they had sent our mail to the nearby Air Force Base post office this morning. Sigh. They agreed to forward it to Oshkosh. We passed an Excel heading west on Hwy. 2, but didn't have time to identify the model. We honked.
Our drive across the prairies was again through lovely canola and lavender fields. The canola fields actually seemed to shine even when it was cloudy.
 Canola shining in the fields |  Lovely lavender |
We went on to Bemidji, Minnesota, to spend our first night in a Walmart parking lot, since we couldn’t find any convenient campgrounds and we needed only a place to sleep before driving to Duluth tomorrow. We parked on the far edge of the lot, where we had a view of a storm pond with cattails. It was much quieter and more pleasant than staying at a truckstop.
Our boondocking siteWe had to clean out the burner tube on the hot water heater again. It's been re-setting again.
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