Sunday, November 9, 2008
ACD Museum
We are parked in the Fleetwood lot in Decatur IN, Monday early we take the RV to another building to be fixed. It is cold, rainy and there were snow flurries so it was a good day to visit the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum in Auburn, IN. ,
Friday, November 7, 2008
Cataract Falls
We are still looking at bridges, today is our last day as we are heading to Decatur tomorrow. We didn't get much rain yesterday but it is getting colder. 
We checked out Cataract Falls today, they too were flooded in June. It's not a tall falls but there is a lower and higher falls and it is a pretty area. We then took the car to Wal Mart here in Crawfordville and had the oil changed. It takes synthetic oil, which I didn't know when I bought it, and of course it costs more.
Next report from Decatur, IN and the Fleetwood Manufacturing Plant.
We checked out Cataract Falls today, they too were flooded in June. It's not a tall falls but there is a lower and higher falls and it is a pretty area. We then took the car to Wal Mart here in Crawfordville and had the oil changed. It takes synthetic oil, which I didn't know when I bought it, and of course it costs more.Next report from Decatur, IN and the Fleetwood Manufacturing Plant.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Bridges of Parke County
Here are a few pics of the bridges we found today, we found about 20 more today. We missed only 4. We may go find them tomorrow if it doesn't rain. It was a beautiful day temp in the 70's.
We learned that the Bridgeton bridge was burned down 2002, and through the help of donations it was rebuilt in two years. It took 300 popular trees to rebuild half donated from the local farmers. The arsonist was caught and he gets out of prison this year for good behavior. The State Sanatorium bridge is being moved to private land and the Catlin bridge was moved to a golf course. Three bridges were moved to Billie Creek Village and they charge an admission. The Amish have a big community in the area and we saw a farmer harvesting his corn with his 6 big horses. We had a big day driving 120 miles through the country side and through tiny villages, but it was a fun day it reminded us of a scavenger hunt.
We learned that the Bridgeton bridge was burned down 2002, and through the help of donations it was rebuilt in two years. It took 300 popular trees to rebuild half donated from the local farmers. The arsonist was caught and he gets out of prison this year for good behavior. The State Sanatorium bridge is being moved to private land and the Catlin bridge was moved to a golf course. Three bridges were moved to Billie Creek Village and they charge an admission. The Amish have a big community in the area and we saw a farmer harvesting his corn with his 6 big horses. We had a big day driving 120 miles through the country side and through tiny villages, but it was a fun day it reminded us of a scavenger hunt.Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Crawfordsville, IN
We decided to move on into Indiana, t
he museum didn't hold Ken's interest this morning so we didn't go. We found a campground open here in Crawfordsville, IN, Sugar Creek Campground. We can drive and find around 30 plus covered bridges in the area. We found 7 this afternoon and most we drive thru to get to the next one.
The campground is very nice I'll get pics tomorrow. We may stay for 3 nites and enjoy the awesome countryside here. The trees still have some color. We may have only 1 nice day left to enjoy, rain and colder weather is on the way. The 70 degree temps have been great!!
More from Parke County Indiana tomorrow.
he museum didn't hold Ken's interest this morning so we didn't go. We found a campground open here in Crawfordsville, IN, Sugar Creek Campground. We can drive and find around 30 plus covered bridges in the area. We found 7 this afternoon and most we drive thru to get to the next one.The campground is very nice I'll get pics tomorrow. We may stay for 3 nites and enjoy the awesome countryside here. The trees still have some color. We may have only 1 nice day left to enjoy, rain and colder weather is on the way. The 70 degree temps have been great!!
More from Parke County Indiana tomorrow.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Moving On
Yesterday, we took a drive up to Fort Madison, IA and back down thru Nauvoo to Keokuk, IA.
The museums in Fort Madison close Labor Day, but we had an interesting visit. We stopped at the visitor center and visited with the little old fellow there. He told us about the history and some fun facts. Roy Rogers and his troup would come thru on the train going east and they would stop a few days to rest up the livestock. One of the trips thru the locals had the idea of asking him to perform and this started their big rodeo days.
We also got to visit with the director of the Ft. Madison, he is the only paid employee for the fort and allowed to work only 25 hrs. to keep up this attaction which is only open in the summer. He was at the fort cleaning up after their last program the candle light program. The fort was flooded for the month of June, and he has had a time getting the fort repaired and then free from raccoons and mice. The riverboat in the pic, was a casino last year but now only the raccoons are having fun on board.
We moved on this morning, we are in Rantoul, IL tonight. We are at Prairie Pine RV, this is the sign at the entrance. It used to be part of the Air Force Base that used to be here. Tomorrow we will probably visit the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum and rest a little. Then move on Wed.
The museums in Fort Madison close Labor Day, but we had an interesting visit. We stopped at the visitor center and visited with the little old fellow there. He told us about the history and some fun facts. Roy Rogers and his troup would come thru on the train going east and they would stop a few days to rest up the livestock. One of the trips thru the locals had the idea of asking him to perform and this started their big rodeo days.We also got to visit with the director of the Ft. Madison, he is the only paid employee for the fort and allowed to work only 25 hrs. to keep up this attaction which is only open in the summer. He was at the fort cleaning up after their last program the candle light program. The fort was flooded for the month of June, and he has had a time getting the fort repaired and then free from raccoons and mice. The riverboat in the pic, was a casino last year but now only the raccoons are having fun on board.
We moved on this morning, we are in Rantoul, IL tonight. We are at Prairie Pine RV, this is the sign at the entrance. It used to be part of the Air Force Base that used to be here. Tomorrow we will probably visit the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum and rest a little. Then move on Wed.Sunday, November 2, 2008
A day in Nauvoo, IL
We enjoyed our day in Nauvoo. We visited most of the buildings, learned about tinsmithing, printing, brickmaking, wainsmithing, gunmaking, candlemaking, barrel making, bread making, and shoemaking and driving oxen! All this is free and even get a little brick, little horseshoe and nail ring for free. All the re enactors are missionary couples. We had a nice dinner at the Nauvoo Hotel and then attended the little play at seven. 
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