Day 218 – Beginning of Week 32. The weather forecast for today’s travel was adequate – cold & moderate wind, so we thought we were good to go. But when we departed the campground at 10:20 a.m., it was snowing lightly and a bit windy, 31 degrees. The snow wasn’t sticking to the ground so we thought it’d be just temporary.
326 miles
Day 217 – We were up and on the road at 10 a.m. this morning after dumping tanks. It was 41 degrees, cloudy, with some wind. We don’t really have a definite plan as to when we’ll stop & where we’ll spend the night. We just entered Elkhart, Indiana in the GPS & headed out, figuring we’d stop when we were tired of driving.
251 miles
Day 6 – A few more campers have come into our loop but it’s not at all full (the weekend hasn’t quite begun yet). When we were driving out, at the dump site near the entrance, that loop (by the Lake) was completely full. We got up at 6:15 a.m. because we wanted to get an earlier start. We’d been warned that there was a big football game in Iowa at 2:30 which could effect traffic on I-80W. Before leaving Illinois, we added the State to our travel map. We left Illini State Park at 8:30 a.m., 69 degrees, clear & sunny.
Day 5 – It was nice not to have to get up & hit the road yesterday morning. We’ve enjoyed hearing the clip-clop of the horses as they go by pulling the Amish buggies. But we’re looking forward to reaching Oregon or California, wherever we end up, and then we’ll slow down the pace & spend quality time exploring. Today we will travel through northern Indiana & into northern Illinois, driving beyond Chicago to Illini State Park in Marseilles, IL. Because it’s a weekend night, we made reservations in advance after hearing that the State Parks tend to book up on the weekends.
Day 69 – We left Babler State Park at 9:05 a.m., (53 degrees & sunny), we were heading for Charlestown, Indiana and a long-awaited visit with my daughter, Pam, who lives in Louisville, Kentucky, about 40 minutes from our campground, Charlestown State Park. We had never met her two dogs (the grandkids), Simone and Ginji, nor had we ever seen her house. So excited. We had driven through KY briefly in 1989 (but she didn’t live there yet) when moving from Southern CA to Poughkeepsie, NY, and remembered the State to be quite beautiful. We were not disappointed in this visit.
