Mid west storms

Brother Bill, Nancy, Ellen and Larry during their visit to Horseshoe Lakes near Terre Haute, IN
The limb that went through the driver's side window during a wind storm the night of May 30
The clubhouse at Horseshoe Lakes from across the road from our campsite
Us having fun at the stables at Lost Valley Lake Resort in Owensville, MO
The antique tractor pull at Lost Valley Lake Resort, Owensville, MO. Larry is wearing the white cowboy hat on the far side in the front.




This has been quite a month! The floods and severe weather in IA, IL, IN and MO have affected us. At 11 PM on May 30 we had a tree limb go through the driver's side window of the coach. The floods didn't flood the campground but we were stranded for three days because all the roads in and out were flooded. When we moved to MO we decided to stay out of the trees and this time we had hail damage to our new trailer! That was at 4:30 AM on June 16. We are now in IA having the trailer painted to match the coach. We decided to go ahead and have it painted because it is just a trailer to haul our car around. Because of all the bad weather the three weeks we were near Terre Haute we didn't get a chance to see any covered bridges. I am disappointed but we have decided we won't come back to the mid west during the spring any time soon, so we will have to visit in the fall if we see any covered bridges.

While in MO we went to an Antique Tractor pull (actually it came to the campground). The smaller, older tractors had a sled that the audience jumped on to slow the tractor down. Larry participated in that. It was quite interesting to see the old time tractors.

We have had some good visits. Larry's brother and sister-in-law visited us again on their way back home from AZ, we visited one of my cousins in St Louis that we last saw in CA two years ago, and I visited a friend I made as a girl while visiting my grandparents in IA over 50 years ago. We had not seen each other in 31 years.