Elkhart, Indiana to Athens, Ohio

October 9, 2011

We drove about 344 miles today, and are just staying overnight at the Walmart in Athens.  Tomorrow, we will arrive at another Legacy RV park in Hillsville, Virginia.          

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Around Elkhart, Indiana

October 6, 2011

Monday Kevin went to do some shopping at a couple of the surplus stores in town.  He didn’t buy anything, but now that he knows what is available, he is going to make a list of what he wants and go back to do some real shopping. Tuesday, Kevin went to one more surplus store [...]

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Elgin, Illinois to Elkhart, Indiana

October 2, 2011

We only drove about 151 miles today, but it cost us around $32 in tolls.  Yikes–almost as bad as the Florida turnpike!!  We are in a large but older campground in Elkhart, Indiana.  Kevin wanted to stop here because many RV companies are (were) based here, so there are supposedly lots of RV surplus stores [...]

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Warrens, Wisconsin to Elgin, Illinois

September 28, 2011

We drove about 225 miles today, and are currently in Elgin, Illinois, about 40 miles NW of Chicago.  We will be here for four or five days, depending on what we find to do.  We have plenty of time to get down to Miami, so we are taking it nice and slow.  I think it [...]

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Huge Storm and “What Have We Been Doing So Far”

May 23, 2011

Yesterday, a pretty bad storm pass through here.  The sky was that strange yellow-green color with lots of thunder and lightening, then for about two minutes the winds, rain, and this huge hail came through.  It only lasted a few minutes, but it was kinda scary.  The hail in Kevin’s hand is probably one of [...]

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Tomah, WI to Warrens, WI

April 21, 2011

We are here after our long seven mile drive this morning.  When we left last year, we chose a site on the hill for this season.  We wanted to be farther away from the freeway and just wanted some different scenery.  Well we drove up there in the car to check it out, and we [...]

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Northwood, IA to Tomah, Wisconsin

April 20, 2011

We drove right about 175 miles today, nearly all of it along I-90.  There is a huge Hormel plant and a Spam museum and gift shop just off I-90 in Austin, Minnesota.  The museum is free and it got good reviews.  We weren’t sure about parking and the lot was a little tight, but we [...]

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