October 2
Yesterday we left Ohio and now we are in Indiana, parked at an RV s\Sales
and Repair place. We have to repair the damage the blown tire caused. Will be here until at least Monday. They have hooked us up to water and electricity and they will replace our fender skirt.
We spent the afternoon going to garage sales. It’s Saturday so there are a lot of them. We don’t buy much though, a few videos and Tom bought an old fashioned crank popcorn popper.
We found two full gospel churches and one was recommended by one of the
garage sale ladies. It happened to be the closest one too. That was good.
October 3
Church was fabulous. This was a large church with great praise and worship. The leader had a really good voice. An African American lady sang a gorgeous solo. She really worshiped too, jumping, dancing and getting down on her knees. What an inspiration.
The Pastor’s wife led us in the hymn "My Jesus I Love Thee". This was
written by a 16 year old boy who had just gotten saved. I was so touched by the
Spirit I couldn’t sing or weeping.
The Pastor was a super preacher. He was humorous, down to earth, but
powerful. One of the humorous things he said after bringing up global warming
and how ludicrous it is in God’s world, "You can believe in global warming if you
want to, but I"m from Kentucky. We don’t believe that kind of thing."
His sermon was so good I ordered a tape of it. They are mailing it to me -
no charge. Nice of them.
Many of the licence plates in Indiana have In God We Trust on them.
Walked around this afternoon looking at the RV’s on the lot.
October 4
Up and out early so they can work on the fifth wheel. We went to Bob Evans restaurant for breakfast. It was excellent and inexpensive too.
Then we went back and had a salesman show us some of the RV’s .
We really liked the 30 foot rear kitchen Montana. Can’t decide, may just keep
ours even though it is so big to pull.
We drove to the bakery that was closed on Saturday when we got there.
Had lunch, bought bread and goodies, filled the truck with diesel and went back to the RV place. They were done with our rig so we packed up and let. Got away about 4:00 and settled at a Walmart in Michigan City.
Tom hooked up our new generator for the second time we had electricity
in a Walmart and were able to watch a movie and have lots of light.
October 5
This was a long travel day. We drove through the rest of Indiana, all through Illinois to Des Moines, Iowa. The colors continue although they are more
muted now. Still lovely. Today was mile after mile of corn fields. Truly the bread basket of America. We are in a lovely park here on a road called the Bread Basket. Only negativeis the sight we got isn’t very level. That makes it hard for Tom to set us up. They have wifi here, but for some reason I can’t get on the internet even though it says I am connected. So guess you will have to wait some
more. Toodleoo!

Finally got on today, October 7, at Valentine, Nebraska. We are in a camp. The weather is great, in the low 80's. We are still enjoying our trip even though we are anxious to get home.

I have made an appointment with the Orthopedic Surgeon for when I get home. I will probably have to do the surgery route since nothing has improved.

Will just try to keep you up to date on our progress across the country when possible. All for now.