Update From Indiana

As we are preparing to move on to the Cincinnati OH area, I will take a few minutes to catch up on our comings and goings as well as make the big announcement alluded to in the last post!

We spent two weeks visiting Cathy's very best friend Diana Sullivan and her family in the Milwaukee WI area. We stayed at Lake Lenwood Beach and Campground about 20 miles north of Diana's home in Mequon. We have stayed at this park the various times we have stopped to see Diana.

All of her children and their families came to visit us and to take advantage of the beach at the rather tiny Lake Lenwood. Aside from voracious mosquitos which would not take a break from their attacks, we had an enjoyable time.

Here are the BFFs at our dinner table soon after our arrival.

On an earlier visit to this area Diana and Cathy had enjoyed lunch in Cedarburg, a historic town, which caters to tourists with many shops and restaurants. We were too late to get served at The Cream & Crepe Cafe but did enjoy a nice lunch at The Stilt House where they make great Tenderloin Sliders on Pretzel Rolls!

Spillway on Cedar Creek near Cream & Crepe Cafe

 On one of the days we were to be together a trip to Naperville IL was planned so Cathy and Diana's gang could visit Diana's sister, Sissy and her son Barry.  Larry had opted not to go. As the day neared, Cathy was stricken with a bladder infection, saw a doctor the day before the Naperville trip and was not able to go either.  During that journey, Diana managed to take a tumble breaking her left wrist and a finger on the right hand. She also had some bruised ribs.  After she returned home, and just before we were to leave we went to Diana's for lunch and took this photo on her back deck which overlooks a small lake.

On the deck in Mequon after Diana's fall.

Our first stop was at one of the Thousand Trails

Preserves in Clinton IN about 25 miles north of Terre Haute where we stayed a little over a week. Since we had been there several times before we did not do any touring but rather spent our time relaxing, reading, trike riding and walking Dixie. We did lots of that since our site was underneath tall trees and it was not possible to set up the satellite dish for TV.

Nevertheless it is a pretty place that has become well populated by annual site holders making those sites unavailable to the traveling members. Many have landscaped, added storage units and, as our next door neighbor put it, "...were Homesteading" the place.

Evening from our vantage point at Horseshoe Lake IN

The only unusual bird we saw was a Red-headed Woodpecker

OK. Here is the big announcement. We have decided to hang up the keys after this trip and establish seasonal residences in the Thousand Trails Preserves in Orlando FL and Hershey PA. The effort of packing and unpacking between stops has become more difficult and is not enjoyable. Our plan is to drive the motorhome to Orlando and park it there for Winter use. So that will be our final RV trip in what has been our home for nearly 11-years.

To accommodate a Summer "home" in Hershey we have purchased a used Fifth Wheel RV from a dealer in Harrisburg. We had our son, Randy, visit the dealership and inspect the rig and give his opinion. He took many photos and it all looks good. The dealer will take care of inspecting all the appliances (furnace, water heater, air conditioner, refrigerator, stove/oven, and microwave) as well as the mechanicals of the unit and assure us all will be in working order when we take delivery in October.

The Kitchen on left and table/chairs to right

For Cathy's Bookie work there is an official desk. There is a nice TV and an electric fireplace too.

One of two sofa beds is shown. We plan to keep it and replace the other with a pair of recliners.

It is a Keystone Montana which is a very popular brand we see everywhere we go and we think it will serve our needs while in PA during the Spring and Summer months.