This blog post is way overdue. We have been home for a while, but have neglected to write a final trip post. So here we go….. In our last post, we were at the sugar beet harvest back in early…

This blog post is way overdue. We have been home for a while, but have neglected to write a final trip post. So here we go….. In our last post, we were at the sugar beet harvest back in early…
It’s time for a sugar beet harvest update. I always know it’s time to do an update when I start getting text messages and emails from people asking how it’s going. But first, we had complete the final travel leg…
Written by Jim…. If you are interested in my stints as a sugar beet semi driver read on. I recently watched the most recent training video put out by Crystal Sugar for the factory workers (of which I am not,…
This is it…week 13 of our Fall 2018 trip. We are almost home and have been visiting family and friends (and their driveways) while we wander eastward. And totally neglected to take any people pictures while visiting all these people!…
How do you know when it’s time to leave the Red River Valley? Today we have finally left the Red River Valley and the sugar beet harvest. No, the harvest overall is NOT done yet. The weather is working against…
The snow has melted. The fields have dried. The sugar beet harvest is back on! Life has fallen into a routine. Jim gets up at 5:00 a.m. and gets an hour of “me time.” His “breakfast” is his big meal…
You know that movie Groundhog Day? In the movie, Bill Murray lives the same day over and over and over. https://youtu.be/GncQtURdcE4 I feel like we are living our own personal Groundhog Day experience. Everyday is the same…the sugar beet…
Some of you are probably wondering how the sugar beet harvest here in the Red River Valley is going. It’s now day 10, and this is the scene out our RV window. Yes, it’s day 10 of the harvest and…
We are once again in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Jim worked the sugar beet harvest here in 2016 and wanted to work it again. Sproule Farms happily rehired him for the harvest. I don’t plan on rehashing the whole sugar…
I suspect all you readers are sick of hearing about Sugar Beets. But this has been such a huge, long desired event in JIm’s life, we feel the need to add a few more things. Jim read my last blog…