“On the road again, just can’t wait to get on the road again!”
We are just outside of Chillicothe, Ohio. After tentatively planning to leave June 1, I had pushed it back to June 2 in my mind. Then Sunday, May 29, I managed to trip on the sidewalk and scrape up my left knee, arm and hand. Nothing was broken, but it was fairly painful and certainly slowed me down.
So now we were planning on Friday, June 3. Then my back/hip pain that I had been having for a while got worse and since it was on my left side, where I fell, x-rays were taken. Again, nothing was broken but I have some issues with some disks. The treatment is anti-inflammatory drugs and ice and heat. I slept in on Friday and we moved leaving until Saturday. We worked hard Friday afternoon and most of Saturday morning, in the rain. Leigh was a tremendous help. But we were more organized than ever inside the trailer. We finished before noon on Saturday and expected to leave after lunch.
Then we looked at the forecast, which was rain and thunderstorms all Saturday into the night, clear across the state. Since it is no fun setting up in the rain and we don’t HAVE to be anywhere until the 14th, we decided to stay home one more night. As we were watching the evening news, the Indianapolis station broke in with tornado warnings near where we would have been camped!
So we left early Sunday morning and had a nice drive to Chillicothe. Steve found us a nice campground and while we don’t have a terrific view out the back window, I’ve been watching a swan swim around the lake out our side window. You can’t see the swan in this picture. I’ve had to use the binoculars to really see him. He ducks down in the water occasionally, looking for dinner.
We are now in southern Ohio, so we have some hills and everything is very green. When we were headed home in March, we kept driving through spring, it seemed and most of the trees hadn’t leafed out yet. Although we did get to drive through several areas lined with what we were told were Bradford pear trees. Whatever they were, they were lovely.
Shortly before we left Indiana, we both noticed something in the sky. It was a line/change of color clear across the sky. I’ve enlarged this picture hoping you can see it.
I don’t know what would create that. Hope it shows up. If you have a clue, please let me know.
We’re headed to New England and eastern Canada via Virginia and Maryland. I’ll try to keep up with my posting, but the easiest way to follow me is to sign up for email. Then, when I do post, it shows up in your inbox.
Deb
P.S. Last year at this time we were throwing snowballs and catching sight of our first bear in the wild.
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