Wow! Where have the days gone?

We reached our "committed" destination, Hillsdale, MI, yesterday afternoon. We are attending the graduation of our friend Christina Lewis and are parked beside their home here. She made us promise a year ago that we would attend her commencement on Saturday from Hillsdale College.

However, we have traveled a lot and visited several friends since our last blog post. Let me review.

After leaving Roger's cousin, Nancy & husband Jim, in Cookeville, TN, we headed to Northwest Indiana to visit Tom, a former co-worker from years ago at the College of DuPage in IL. Tom lives alone with his dog, Scarlet.  He served us some seriously good hamburgers and we had some time to catch up on our news and encourage each other in the Faith. We pulled out the next morning and headed to MI.

By the way, strong winds are an ongoing problem for RV's. We had terrible side-winds as we headed North on I-65 to Tom's place. There were no signs of other RV'ers on the road, but we did see other signs.

Our next stop on Tuesday, May 5, was an overnight visit with Russ and Flossie in Ft. Wayne, IN. Roger did some basic repairs for them while Heather and Flossie prepared an evening meal for the four of us.  Afterwards we enjoyed a "hymn sing" with them. The next morning before leaving we filled up our on-board tank with their filtered water.

As we headed to our next stop in MI, Heather noticed a road-side billboard advertising an old car museum in Auburn, IN. We pulled off into the town and found the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg museum.

 

I put a bunch of photos in an album, if you want to see some old car examples. Indiana was a center for automobile developers in the 1920's to 30's. It is amazing to see the development of automobile technology. I was particularly interested in seeing the changes in suspension, transmissions & wheels over the years. (I didn't include all those images in the linked album).

 

We reached our friends Trent and Wendi in Allegan, MI, in the evening and visited with them. They are both working full time and so we tried to keep our visit short. We got to see the work they've done remodeling the home they purchased in Allegan after moving from the Northwest. We used to attend the same church in Kenmore, WA, years ago.

We stopped at a rest area on the way to Hillsdale. I (Roger) am intrigued by certain trucks. Noticed all the wheels and also that they aren't "dualies" like most semi trucks and trailers.