Caro, MI

Made it to our son’s house in Caro, MI. We parked in the driveway there for a month. We put a 50 amp outlet in the garage to power the motor home and used our macerater pump to drain our tanks while we were there. Our newest grandson was born a few days after our arrival. We spent our time there holding the new grandson, playing with our granddaughter and working on their new house. It was a long drive to get there with a good visit at the end of it. One day they took us to Frankenmuth, a small touristy town near them. After a great lunch, we spent some time shopping in the largest Christmas store in the world and then went for a carriage ride.

Portage, Indiana

Stopped for the night at the Bass Pro Shop in Portage, IN. Spent some time looking around inside and then had a quiet and peaceful night.

Waterloo

Yesterday we left Sioux City late because the motor home had no turn signals when we checked the lights after hooking up the Jeep. It took me awhile to find the problem so we only made it as far as the Southern Hills McDonald’s for lunch. Janice thought that she had left her purse at the Wilson’s but we found it in the Jeep. After that, the day went smoothly and we stopped for the night at Walmart in Waterloo, IA. We are on the road again after fueling up at the Flying J in Waterloo.

Sioux City

After our overnight at the Cozy C in Bowling Green, we headed on toward Des Moines. We stopped for lunch with and old friend at Mount Pleasant and had a good visit with her.

Then we traveled on to overnight at the Walmart in Pella, IA. The next morning we drove on to Des Moines and had the oil and transmission fluid changed on the motor home. Later that day we finally arrived at Volunteer Village at Saylorville Lake, our home for the next 2 months.

 I volunteered in natural resources again this year, with much of the time spent on the zero turn mowers. We enjoyed our time there visiting our kids and grandkids there along with a new grandson and volunteer friends.

We drove the Jeep up to Cherokee one weekend and had a celebration of my oldest sister Kathleen's life. We had a lot of good visits with family and enjoyed the weekend. 

My remaining sister and me.

 The time at Saylorville Lake went by much too fast and we were off to Sioux City where another new grandson and his family awaited our arrival.

It is good to spend time here with family and old friends. There are always projects there to keep us busy. One of the big ones this year was new carpet for the motor home. /We weren't sure what we were doing, but we tackled it anyway. We are happy with the way it turned out.

Time passes quickly and we have a little over a week left here before we head out to Michigan to visit our son and his family there.

Bowling Green, MO

We have stopped for the night at the Cozy C Rv Park. We have stayed here many times before. The previous owners had been trying to sell it for a few years and now it’s has new owners. They seem very nice. The husband’s name is Santos. They gave us some freshly baked chocolate chip cookies when we checked in! Yum!

It was very windy on the drive today.

Sikeston, MO

We stopped at Lambert’s RV park in Sikeston, MO yesterday and went to tne 5:00 Mass. we are going to spend an extra night here to have a relaxing Sunday.

Yesterday we stopped for lunch at a Mexican restaurant on highway 412 near Bells, TN. It was really good food and since I haven’t posted any food pictures for awhile, here is our lunch.

Filled us up with leftovers for later.

We went over to Lambert’s Cafe for supper. They are famous for “throwed rolls”. You order your entree and they they bring around fresh baked rolls that they toss for you to catch. They also bring around apple butter and sorghum to put on the rolls and fried potatoes with onions, macaroni with tomatoes, fried okra.

Carrollton, GA

I started this post almost 2 weeks ago so the first 2 paragraphs were written then in Carrollton, GA

We were originally going to leave Ordway at the end of March, but we decided to stay through Easter Sunday. After weeks of working out details, a man from the Virgin Islands purchased our old Jeep. We stayed a few more days after Easter waiting for his shipping company to make arrangements to pick up the Jeep for shipping to the Virgin Islands. Friday morning we got a phone call that he was on his way. 

We left Ordway after lunch and drove to Tifton, GA. and overnighted at the Wal Mart there. Towing the new Jeep went well, but we found out that our fresh water pump on the motor home had quit. That meant that we had no water for the sinks or toilet while traveling. Picked up some extra bottled water at Wal Mart and we were fine. Saturday, we drove the rest of the way to Little Tallapoosa Part where we stay at Carrollton. We have one of our favorite sites here and will be until a week from this Thursday. We have a new water pump ordered so hopefully we can have water again when we leave.

It is now Friday April 28 and we are overnighting at a Walmart in Corinth, MS. We drove from Carrollton to a Walmart in Gadsden, AL yesterday and from there to here today. We stopped at a little country restaurant on the road for lunch near Cullman, AL called Graves General Store and it was good. Mom liked the chicken and dumplings a lot, so the lady gave here a container of it to tale with her.