May 9-10, 2010 Travel to Ohio

Happy Mother’s Day!

Sunday

We left our little spot today and headed east.  Our first stop was to get gas and the clerk gave me a rose for Mother’s Day – wasn’t that nice – :-))

Our nest stop was at the Visitor Center in Illinois to pick up a map and when I signed the guestbook, I was told I was a winner – a $10.00 gift certificate to Kroger’s – YAHOO!!!  How about that – :-)))).    Two presents this morning and it wasn’t even 10 AM.

Our travels continued thru Missouri, crossing the swollen Mississippi:

 

Thru Illinois and into Indiana.   We traveled mostly thru small towns and farmland – Beautiful!

We overnighted at Wal-Mart in Bedford, Indiana.

Monday

We continued our journey thru Indiana into Ohio – more farmland and forests:

And we arrived at Hueston Woods State Park near Oxford, Ohio.   So in the past few days, we travel thru four states – WOW!  We are also now in the eastern time zone – haven’t been in this time zone since 12/08.

We met one of the campground host couples – Karen and Tom who are also Escapees and spent the afternoon and evening talking about our travels – great couple, great chatting and great campfire (Thank, Tom for the wood).  That is what this life is all about – :-)))).

And the storms came in late tonight!

 

Miles Traveled: 495 Miles

Routes Traveled:

Missouri: SR-T; US-60: I-57

Illinois: I-57; US-50

Indiana: US-50; I-275

Ohio: I-275; SR-128; SR-27; SR-73; SR-177

May 6-8, 2010 – Lake Wappapello

Thursday

We did a few things around the MH this morning and this afternoon, we explored some of the area around Lake Wappapello.

We came upon this sign:

They weren’t kidding.  This is the boat launch area:

Guess we won’t even have a chance to disobey this sign – LOL:

  The spillway (and the water was running fast):

Above the dam:

What a beautiful place.  The visitor center is open on Saturday and Sunday so we will check it out then. 

We made our final reservations today for the Albuquerque New Mexico Balloon Fiesta in October.  Isn’t that exciting – :-))).   We are also hoping to get on a balloon crew to help out so stay tuned…  YEA!!!

And another great campfire night!

Friday

Today is our 22nd Anniversary soooo Happy Anniversary to us (and to my niece, Christy and her husband, Greg). 

We have also decided that today would be Dusty’s birthday (based on the vet’s age assumptions – :-)) so today our little Dusty is one year old!

Our journey today took us exploring some of the county roads – this is beautiful country and I am still not use to all the greenery – :-))).   But it was very windy due to a cold front coming thru.   As I write this evening, it is stormy, windy and getting colder.  Looking forward to cooler days – it is getting too hot for me – LOL!!!

Speaking of summer weather, it will be very different for us this summer in PA.  Since 2007, we spent 2 summers in Alaska and one in New England.   I enjoy the 60-70 degrees days and can tolerate 80-85 but hotter than that – oh my, it will be interesting.

We celebrated tonight by having dinner at one of the local restaurants – Fisherman’s Net – great catfish!

No campfire, due to the wind – :-((.

Saturday

Today was hang out day so that is what we did…LOL.    I did some beading – still finishing some of the projects I started at bead week.   Andy started playing with Vista’s voice recognition software – He has been talking about getting a voice recognition program and I found out that the one in Vista is rated high so we will be checking it out…

We also spent some time walking around the campground, talking with our neighbors and the campground host.  The hosts here are great and love to chat with everyone.

The weather was beautiful, the campfire great – oh my, life doesn’t get any better than this.

We are traveling on tomorrow.  We were going to go to Tennessee and Kentucky but because of the flooding, we have decided to head north to Illinois and east to Indiana and Ohio.  We have two days of good weather before more storms come thru so we are taking advantage of it..

So stay tuned.

May 5, 2010 – Travel to Lake Wappapello

Our travels today took us through southern Missouri on US-60 (mostly). A beautiful route passing a number of small towns and state and national forests as well as Amish country:

We are camped at Redman Creek Campground by Lake Wappapello – an Army Corp of Engineers campground - full hookups for $10.00 (WOW) and large sites:

After getting set up and checking out the campground, we enjoyed another great campfire – :-))).

Miles Traveled:

Routes Traveled: 230 Miles

Missouri: US-65B; US-65; US-60; SR-T

Until tomorrow……