Fargo, ND

Governor’s RV Park, Casselton ND, about 20 miles from Fargo.
Fargo, ND (7-10 July)

Since Tina is writing this edition, I’m going to start with THE BEST PART!! We went to a Rodney Atkins concert!! We had to drive an extra 85 miles away to Grand Forks, but I have been trying to get to see a Rodney Atkins concert since we returned from Singapore the summer of 2018. FINALLY, our paths were only 85 miles apart! The last year or so, I have been craving live music and Rodney Atkins is my FAVORITE! Bonus: Travis Tritt was the headliner.

We had never been to a concert like this. The concert promoter has figured out how to set up a parking lot behind a mall and it was a beautiful day, albeit a bit on the warm side! We hadn’t realized that we would be outside, and we didn’t bring chairs. Thankfully, the mall was right there AND there was a super cool sports store called Scheels. We are the proud owners of 2 new camp chairs! (Running total 9
camp chairs, 5 with us and 4 left accidentally in Sparta.)

Left to our own devices, we look for brew pubs and food! We were able to squeeze in 2 breweries and 3 Diner, Drive-ins and Dive restaurants. The first craft brewery was “Icewind,” located in Mapleton, about halfway between Fargo and Casselton. Great beer and a great place. Tina especially enjoyed the Shandy, “Summer Lovin’.

Our brewery journey continued at the Fargo Brewing Company. In addition to the great beer, we met the co-owner, Aaron Hill, who gave us a nice private tour and told us the story of his brewery. In short, a couple of college buddies just said, “What the heck! Let’s do it.” So they did, but not without trials and tribulations of learning the business from scratch and surviving the pandemic impacts. They did make it, though, and Aaron has done a great marketing job and diversifying the business (events, food, and strangely, renting space to a barbershop too).

DDD stop 1: Kroll’s Diner is an old-time diner, silver trailer façade included, nice burgers. DDD stop 2: Blackbird Wood Fire pizza, some of the best pizza we have ever had!

We plan our trips out 6 to 12 months in advance, we included this stop to Fargo as a chance to get to see our niece, Ashlyn and her fiancé Alex. AND they planned a trip to Florida. It was an important trip for them, but Ashlyn got back to Fargo in time for us to have breakfast on our last morning before leaving the area. We met at CJ’s Kitchen, the third of our Triple D stops, and the hearty breakfast was great!