Daily Archives: October 2, 2009
Bringing ‘Beauty’ Home…Well, almost…
Today was our last day in Celina, OH. As I mentioned yesterday we planned on heading northwest about 160 miles to Elkhart, IN for three weeks or so to just rest up for a while. We’ve found that sometimes retirement is hard work.
But before we left, we had breakfast at ‘Lost in the Fifties’ restaurant down the road in St. Mary’s. Besides the good food, I wanted to get some pictures of the ‘50’s museum they have there. I’ll post those in the next day or so.
We had a great time at the RV Rally. There were about 125 RV’s there, of all sizes and types. There was even a guy there in a 1947 Westwood West Craft Coronado travel trailer that he bought NEW. He’s been traveling that trailer for 62 years. He’s now in his 80’s.
Despite the fact that it rained heavily all last night, we were able to pull out of our site without getting stuck.
Thus breaking my Fairground Curse. The two other times we’ve parked in fairgrounds I (and a lot of other people) got stuck trying to get out.
So now at least, I’m 1 for 3 with fairgrounds.
We headed out about 11:30 am on the road to Elkhart. And about 35 miles later we passed thru our coach ‘Beauty’s’ hometown.
She was born in March 1999 at the American Coach factory in Decatur, IN, and we’ve owned her since December 29, 2007.
We picked her up from the dealer on January 5th and then parked at an RV park in La Marque, TX, before we hit the road on February 6th, 2008.
Anyway, we’re going to try and drive back down that way while we’re here and take a tour of the plant.
About 2 pm we stopped off in Auburn, IN for some Walmart ‘stuff’ and then walked across the parking lot to have a late lunch at Steak N Shake. a restaurant chain we know mostly from Florida when we visited there.
We arrived at the Elkhart Campground about 4:30 and got settled in for the night.
It’s good to be home, for a while.
More tomorrow…
