UH OH ! BUGGY EMERGENCY !

Amish Flea Market ???

OK,there is a terrible thing happening down in the Ohio amish country. Holmes County Amish FLea Market has been taken over by non-amish people selling cheap dollar store type products from China,Japan,and Taiwan.I was a little miffed to say the least.You drive all day to get to this place, find a cop directing traffic,costs a dollar to park yet still you believe it will be worth it.It's not. I didn't find one single booth that offered goods produced in Amish country by an Amish person. Don't waste your time. Anyway,our beautiful glass percolator hit the floor and shattered after having to stop quite abruptly for a buggy in the road that you couldnt see 'till you rounded the bend so we found a real flea market and purchased a realy cool old porcelain percolator.Don't think we will be able to brake it.We drove through Ohio,Indiana and Illinois on RT 24 and saw endless beautifull big farms with meticulous yards. You gotta wonder how they have enough time to make their places so perfect. We are currently in Onawa,Iowa at the KOA. WE needed a little time to do nothing.We are headed to South Dakota in the morning. I'm excited about that because it's one of only three states I haven't been to.Hawaii and Maine are the next to be conquered.We will try to stay at a few national parks along the way including Mt. Rushmore and the Badlands. I'm also looking forward to Wall Drugs and plan on spending the day. I don't get to do much mindless shopping latley so that will be fun.See ya later

What? No cell phone service !

Hi Everyone, we finally bugged out at 1:pm on Tuesday The 17th. We headed south on 81 to the Pa. border then took a crazy ,winding,steep kinda scary road that had no shoulers and the white line crumbling away. The dogs were a wreck,Tami was a wreck and I may have already been cured of my need to travel the back roads for a while. I will say that the Pa.northern tier is very green ,lush and overgrown. It could really use a good clipping. The trees stick out over the road so when you go around a corner it's all a guess. Another strange thing about the northern tier is that no one seems to do just one thing.Like joe's pizza or Irene's beauty salon. It's all like,Jim and Donna's family restaurant,Nail Salon and vaccuum repair.Or,Jethro's Taxidermy,Car Wash,and small engine repair. oh and everbodys lawn is chuck full of yard chatchkies. Like they try to give all the passers by a good show. maybe there is a yard chatchkie contest soon to be judged and they are all tryin' to win. We got to our first campground yesterday @ 4:pm. We are at the Penn Wood Airstream Park about an hour north of Pittsburgh. We have no cell phone service but have 60 cable tv channels ,wifi and full water and electrical hookups so we are livin' large. All this for $18.00 a day ! Some people live here all year for only $560.00 includes everything. I hope you like Tia's picture, its her new spot. The intruder alert station. We are headed to Walnut Creek, Ohio tomorrow to the Ahmish flea Market. I hope the weather holds for a few days. Sun would be good.See ya in a couple of days.

ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS

Many of you have asked where we will be going first. Well, we are heading for the pacific north west. We will be attending our very first Airstream rally in Olympia Washington, August 2-10. How we will get there is where the rock- paper- scissors comes in. Since I sit on the right, if I win we turn right. If Ricky wins we turn left.We will be trying to stay off of the main highways,mainly because we could do that in our sleep from our truck driving days. Scenic By-ways and small towns with farmers markets will be our prefered route. Monday,June 16th is finally our departure date. We are looking forward to Amish country in central Ohio an will be stocking up on whoopie pies for sure.