Heading north!

Well, we are finally making the last slog to get back to Minnesota. Most of the folk here we only get to see when we come back, so that is exactly what we are doing.

We did manage to find something to see on the way. February 3, 1959 was the Day the Music Died. Tired of the cold and cramped conditions on the tour bus, Buddy Holly decided to rent a Beechcraft Bonanza to continue their Winter Dance Party tour the next day in Moorhead Minnesota. There being limited seating, only Holly himself, as well as Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper were onboard when the plane crashed shortly after leaving the Clear Lake Iowa airport.

We found the crash site, which is marked by a private memorial as well as some pop art. Interestingly, because there was not enough room on the plane, Waylon Jennings did not die that day, nor did Tommy Allsup and Carl Bunch, other members of the band who rode in the bus. I couldn’t help but hum the tune of American Pie as we paid our respects.

Before we left Clear Lake, we took the pooch on a walk around the RV park. It seemed to us that perhaps we weren’t the only folk here that were living full time in their rig.

I managed to find the one highway in Iowa where you could go every direction except for West. I can understand the East and South or the East and North. But I am still scratching my head on how I could have been going both North and South.

Talk to you soon.