As I mentioned in the previous post, cousin Nancy (in the back with the hat???) had come to Columbus for the reunion. In fact she had flown in on a one way ticket. I’ll explain.
In our wanderings and communications with friends and family a visit (when in the area) and continued communication with Nancy has become a regular thing. In our last visit to the Chicago area we even promised her a camping trip sometime. I have a vague remembrance of being kind of roped into it. I think it was a Kat and Nancy thing? So…. This was that promise. We thought a return trip home from Columbus with us in the RV might be kind of neat and it turned out just so! We stopped ‘again’ at the Air Force museum in Dayton, drove through Amish country in northern Indiana, visited the RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart, and camped at a couple of state parks. The ‘again’ at the Air Force museum was because Kat and I had just been there a week or so earlier and wanted to see some more. Especially Kat, which kind of surprised me. Her dad had been a tail gunner on a WW II B-29 and that may have been her favorite. She even liked the Air Museum better than the RV Hall of Fame. Though it was nice too. They had some real historical and vintage RV’s including one used by Mae West. Worth a stop for any RV’ers. At our first state park Nancy was trying to ‘hit’ (I use the term lightly, and with a smile) on some bachelor school teacher that she met on a morning walk. We even dropped her off at his school in the morning while we had breakfast. All very secretive though! We didn’t hear much more but I do know that she met his class and had a short visit. At a state park in Michigan Kat and Nancy took a drive to Lake Michigan but couldn’t find it. I told them it must have dried up or been moved? They never did find that lake. One can only wonder?
I do need to bloviate a little here. I make light of the girls not being able to find Lake Michigan, but then if it’s like most of the country any water front property is private, developed and most always off limits to the riff-raff. And being from Oregon like I am, it just ‘chaps my hide’. You see, in Oregon we don’t have private beach front property! Not on the coast anyway. The Pacific coast belongs to the people of Oregon and there is access to it all. The same is true for large sections (greenways) of the Willamette River through Portland and up the valley from Eugene. Politically speaking Oregon may seem like the ‘Peoples Republic’ in many ways but you can ‘By God’ get to the beach!!!! Oh! And if you don’t happen to be from Oregon, you’re still invited! All thanks to the late Governor Tom McCall.
We all had a good time and some laughs, built one fire to make it seem like ‘camping’, and dropped Nancy off in Downers Grove just a little too soon for her. But we did get her right to her door step which is better than the airlines would have done and better than she thought we could do. We had no desire to hang around and take a chance on any cold northern weather so for us it was time to ‘beat feet’ and head on south!!!!
In our wanderings and communications with friends and family a visit (when in the area) and continued communication with Nancy has become a regular thing. In our last visit to the Chicago area we even promised her a camping trip sometime. I have a vague remembrance of being kind of roped into it. I think it was a Kat and Nancy thing? So…. This was that promise. We thought a return trip home from Columbus with us in the RV might be kind of neat and it turned out just so! We stopped ‘again’ at the Air Force museum in Dayton, drove through Amish country in northern Indiana, visited the RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart, and camped at a couple of state parks. The ‘again’ at the Air Force museum was because Kat and I had just been there a week or so earlier and wanted to see some more. Especially Kat, which kind of surprised me. Her dad had been a tail gunner on a WW II B-29 and that may have been her favorite. She even liked the Air Museum better than the RV Hall of Fame. Though it was nice too. They had some real historical and vintage RV’s including one used by Mae West. Worth a stop for any RV’ers. At our first state park Nancy was trying to ‘hit’ (I use the term lightly, and with a smile) on some bachelor school teacher that she met on a morning walk. We even dropped her off at his school in the morning while we had breakfast. All very secretive though! We didn’t hear much more but I do know that she met his class and had a short visit. At a state park in Michigan Kat and Nancy took a drive to Lake Michigan but couldn’t find it. I told them it must have dried up or been moved? They never did find that lake. One can only wonder?
I do need to bloviate a little here. I make light of the girls not being able to find Lake Michigan, but then if it’s like most of the country any water front property is private, developed and most always off limits to the riff-raff. And being from Oregon like I am, it just ‘chaps my hide’. You see, in Oregon we don’t have private beach front property! Not on the coast anyway. The Pacific coast belongs to the people of Oregon and there is access to it all. The same is true for large sections (greenways) of the Willamette River through Portland and up the valley from Eugene. Politically speaking Oregon may seem like the ‘Peoples Republic’ in many ways but you can ‘By God’ get to the beach!!!! Oh! And if you don’t happen to be from Oregon, you’re still invited! All thanks to the late Governor Tom McCall.
We all had a good time and some laughs, built one fire to make it seem like ‘camping’, and dropped Nancy off in Downers Grove just a little too soon for her. But we did get her right to her door step which is better than the airlines would have done and better than she thought we could do. We had no desire to hang around and take a chance on any cold northern weather so for us it was time to ‘beat feet’ and head on south!!!!
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