We met many new acquaintances in Camp Newmar this year. It's easy to have a conversation when you have something in common (broken motorhome things!) and so most every day, after the coaches were returned at the end of the work day (2:30 pm or so), groups would gather, share a cool drink, and talk about the days activities. As you can imagine, a lot of griping went around the circle, but as progress was made on each coach, the attitude of the owners improved.
Bill and Netti are originally from the Netherlands, but have been in the US for years. Bill was in the Army and also had a career in law enforcement. Their coach had a number of electrical gremlins running around it, and they have been steadily working to perfect their Newmar motorhome for several months. It seems that the factory techs now have a plan to correct most of the concerns. Wayne and Debbie reside in Florida. We've struck up a great friendship with them, and hope to meet them again in the future. Dick and Judy are also from Florida, and dropped in without an appointment to fix a few things on their coach. Newmar got them into the system and on their way in three days. We learned a number of things talking to other coach owners, and feel more confident about our own after the Service Dept went over the rig. We're good to go!
We didn't leave Nappanee until about 11 this morning, under a huge Shelf Cloud that preceded a cold front. Heavy rain and thunderstorms were predicted, but didn't appear (thank you, Lord). We headed west on US 6 until we got to US 31, where we turned south toward Indianapolis, passing by Kokomo about half way there. It was a little sketchy navigating through Indy, but eventually we merged onto I 74 toward Cincinnati. We bailed off the interstate at Batesville, Indiana, and drove by the huge manufacturing facility of Hill-Rom, Inc. Hill-Rom is a major supplier of hospital beds, furniture, other hospital equipment, and hospital technological systems. This facility is huge and was at one time the company headquarters, which have been recently moved to Chicago. It remains one of the companys main manufacturing facilities. The Batesville Casket Company is located right next door, but as far as I know is not related to Hill-Rom. Still.....an interesting juxtaposition, no?
Heading southeast on a variety of state highways, we finally made it to US 50, an old friend from previous cross-country trips. While we were on it for only a short distance, it felt like an old friend! Eventually, just south of Aurora, we pulled into A Little Farm on the River RV Resort. The park is on the west bank of the Ohio River, and we looked forward to seeing some of the shipping traffic while we stay. Unfortunately, that will not happen since many of the sites back up to the river, but our site is a few rows removed. Still, it's nice to see this big river through the trees.
Sasha and I took a long walk this afternoon between rain showers and got a couple of pics of the Ohio. It's got a lot of logs and brush debris along the banks that are left over from the high water of the spring runoff season.
We didn't spend enough time along the river to see a barge, but we heard the sounds of tugboats somewhere upriver.
We burned up 234 miles worth of fuel today (let's see....at 8 mpg.....oh, never mind). We'll be here through Labor Day, and hope to spend a bit of time in Cincinnati as well as cruising up and down the banks of the Ohio. While we're sad to leave the security of the manufacturer of the motorhome and the good friends that we've met over the last few days, it's great to be back on the road!
Here we go again!
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