Onsted, MI with Randy, Kristi & Devyn

We arrived in Onsted Wednesday evening, Randy is out of town working so Kristi, Judy and I joined Neil & Calvin at the Moose for a drink and steak supper. On Thursday Judy did some cleaning and I cut the grass for Sundays party recognizing Jody's achievements, Dr Bahnmiller. Thursday afternoon Pat & Clayton arrived from St Augustine and set up next to us in the pasture. Friday Devyn arrived and Saturday Jody arrived, we are all here now!

At MOR/ryde

We spent Monday night set up in MOR/ryde's lot with 30a power. At 7am Tuesday we entered their shop and the work started. We spent Tuesday night inside our HH inside the shop with no wheels. Interesting. MOR/ryde has a very nice lounge with WiFi, snacks and a free lunch so we took advantage of that. There were several other RVers there so we had some good discussions in between us doing errands in Elkhart. Beside the pain of paying for the new suspension system we also experienced the pain of getting up at 6:30am two days in a row. Wednesday afternoon the work was finished and we had wheels again so we made the 110 mile trip to Randy's, Kristi's and Devyn's home. We set up in the pasture with 50a and water. We left room for Clayton & Pat who will arrive Thursday. Judy did some house cleaning while I cut the grass in preparation of Sunday's party for Dr Bahnmiller. Go doc go!!!!!!

North bound to Indiana

We had a good time at the rally and really enjoy spending time with our RV friends. We pulled out Sunday for the 2 day trip to Elkhart, IN and the MOR/ryde shop. We are going to upgrade our HH suspension system so the HH rides smoother since it has been ruffer due to the better tires we had installed last summer. A smoother ride should mean more reliability and a longer life for our home on wheels. We spent the night in a small CG somewhere in IN.

Nashville Tour & at the rally

Lots of pictures. We took a bus tour 4 hour of Nashville with 16 other HH friends. We saw the Parthenon, why Nashville has the only actual size replica outside Greece I'm not sure. The next photo is inside the Country Hall of Fame, it was interesting but we both agreed that 1 hour there was right for us. We enjoy music but I wouldn't call us country music fans. The building on top of the hill is the state capitol, we remember it from the evening ghost tour we took 2 years ago here. Next is the outside and inside of the Ryman Auditorium where the Grand Ole Opry use to be, it's back there now because their BIG new facility was flooded this Spring and is still being repaired. Next is the inside of a bar we stopped at for a drink and then the group on the bus. Of course we always had lots of good food at the CG with the potlucks. Judy did water aerobics most every day and a few others joined her. I'd go to the pool and flop around to cool down, very enjoyable. We are enjoying the rally but it's too hot to sit outside very long, on the last afternoon we were able to.

Nashville Nightlife

Judy started her day by leading a water aerobics class this morning after having donuts with some of the others at the pavilion. I slept in, as usual. We chit chatted with our friends during the day & ten of us went into Nashville to a dinner theater called Nashville Nightlife. Surprise, the food was real good, the singers & musicians OK (but Judy liked them) and the comedian was great. We all had a good time, especially Gary...that's him decked out in TP. Let this be a lesson, never sit in the front row when the comedian comes on & don't joke with a joker.

Lebanon, TN & the East Coast Rally

Made it. We arrived at Countryside Resort about noon Sunday. There were several HitchHikers here already. While I was cooling down inside the air conditioning who should pound on our door.....no not Santa Clause....better yet it was Ron. I haven't seen Ron and Lois since the HHAI rally last fall in IL. Cool. Several of us sat around sweating in the heat & humidity, just like being in the swimming pool but not really. Monday we went to breakfast with Gary & Suzanne and Lyle & his wife. Ya know, you just can't trust a GPS. We had the address of Shoneys and followed the Garmin GPS instructions.....many miles out into the country on a two lane road....and a house in the middle of nowhere. After finding Shoneys and then returning to the CG several of us visited some more before we all (the are 16 HHs here) gathered at the pavilion for happy hour & introductions. About 8 or 9pm we all headed to our cozy little homes. Nite nite. OH....the three ladies who like cake, thats my Judy, Lois Osterhouse & Judye Teetz.

Still heading north

We pulled out this morning before nine and traveled 240 miles to Elkmont, AL. It was an uneventful drive, the way we like 'em. The CG is 7 or 8 miles off I65 and really in the boonies. No lights so it will be dark. It's a nice quiet place with 25 or so sites in a field surrounded by woods. It was about 1/2 mile back a gravel drive to the CG, you really have to have faith sometimes pulling your home down some of these roads that there is a CG there and no low bridges or trees if you have to turn around. We arrived at 1pm and set up, we found out the 50a outlet was dead so we used 30a. We didn't want to move to another site because there are billions of what we thought were big bees bugging us. Once inside they kept flying into the RV and we could easily hear the buggers going thunk, thunk, thunk. We later found out there are just Japanese Beetles.

Looking at today's & yesterdays pictures of our CGs reinforces how nice green is to me.