#194 PELICAN POINT LANDING , ND. CAMPGROUND

September 6, 2017: Well it had to happen someday. Savannah is an adult now and she's feeling a little weary of traveling all over the country with the old people.

India and I plan to be home at Thanksgiving. She didn’t want to wait that long and decided now would be as good a time as any. A friend of hers named Emma Boaz moved to Albany New York to live with Grandma. She's going to go by there for a long weekend and hang out. We will put her on the bus at Fargo ND, our next stop.

Pelican Point was a campground that was owned by the Bureau of Land Management or Corps of Engineers. According to the management they had taken over running it had kind of fallen on hard times. Things were all better now and they wanted us to be happy. They had a small restaurant down there where we could get a burger and fries. It was a pretty decent little restaurant considering what it was.

This is a little bit of their offseason because it was the fall and turns out that it gets crazy cold in North Dakota soon. I did some walking and went up the road towards the highway just to see what it was like. I got a picture of the coolest mailbox and send it to India's sister Tommye. She's really into horses. It was art as they had done some metal welding sculpture to make the shape of a horse for their mailbox. It was cool.

Bert decided to disappear for the second time really in four days. We will never know exactly why he does this. We personify him and put a bunch of human emotions into him. We think we know what it is but we don't know what gets up his butt.

Well, he does like to be eating wet food and so we took a can of wet food and tapped on it with a spoon, and walked around calling for him. India and Savannah did a very large loop in one direction while I did a very large loop in the other. After an hour or more of that, there was no Bert to be found.

I have been talking about Savannah parting with us very soon, like tomorrow. For the past week, she's been packing up. She's getting ready to leave and we're talking about it a lot. I know it's just personification but it's like Bert is trying to sabotage her departure

We even went out in the truck off up to the left and looked for him at a trailer park up the hill because anything's possible.

I knew that we were not going to leave this campground till I find my cat. I felt a lot of pressure to find him because we need to be at the bus station tomorrow morning for Savannah's departure.

The weirdest thing happened. At the RV we had almost zero cell service. I could walk up to the grill and get on their Wi-Fi and make a phone call or download a movie and bring it back but there was zero reception at the RV.

Even though all this is true the phone rang.

Why it’s a cell phone miracle.

It was somebody on the phone saying they had found our cat. They said we could meet somewhere. They told us where he was and said he was kind of hunkered down under a tree kind of where the boat dock was. They were describing our lake. All we had to do was go down to the lake where he was and rescue him. Now I’m not mad at him I feel sorry for him as he got disoriented.

I think that what Bert did was he went up the hill and down the hill to where there was kind of a cow pasture fence. He went to the left and started following the lakeshore and got to about where he was hunkered down. Twelve hours later he had no idea where he was or what to do. He got lost and didn't know what to do but I'm very glad that he hunkered down in a public place.

We got our kitty back and for some reason, I seem to remember him not running off too much after that. It must be kind of screwed him up a little bit. It screwed us up too.

Now with Bert on board and locked inside we left the next morning. It was a two-hour drive to the Fargo bus station. As we checked in they said we should have been here a half-hour before departure and were a little pushy to leave. Our goodbyes had to be real quick. This was a big deal and she would have to do things right. We stayed in touch by phone and every time the bus stopped and danger lurked I made sure she was on the right page. Fast forward she did great to Albany and all the way to Wilmington. I was nervous for her safety but proud of her abilities when she arrived safely.

Fargo Moorhead Bus Station

3100 8th St South Fargo, North Dakota 56560

(701) 293-1222

PELICAN POINT LANDING AND CAMPGROUND 110 9th St SW Jamestown ND 58401

Phone Number:

Information: (701)252-1451

GPS Info. (Latitude, Longitude): 47.00694, -98.74139 47°0'25"N, 98°44'29" W