Another lost day!

That's right more back roads, detours, bad areas of downs, making wrong turns. It was all very lovely until - STOP that's a red light! Slam - things flying forward - stopping to shop and a flood! Yes the little foot stool in the potty room got stuck under the foot petal....flood! Don't know how but water pump is no longer functional.

So, we are parked in an RV repair place for the night so we can pay weekend rates for repairs!
We are wondering if this bad luck streak will end soon. Sure hope so.

The fall colors are appearing pretty fast, early even. Hope bad weather stays away for a few more weeks. Still have genealogy research to do.

We are having a great time really, we have laughed about all our goof ups and mishaps cause happy is better that sad any way you look at life.

Getting lost again!

We arrived at Sam's Club's parking lot Sunday afternoon. Unloaded the car and went to Sam's. On Monday we found the history archive basement in the "Stone" building. I spent three afternoons in the archive basement with Emily who was soooo helpful. She had been in the archive's for many many years and knew were every thing was and how things were recorded. I had a very successful three days. Found marriage licence's and marriage records for four of Nathaniel Hopkins five daughters, plus several for the Duer family. It was a great experience.

We left Warren, Ohio on Thursday and took the scenic route because of a wrong turn. It was very scenic and beautiful. The trees are starting to turn color and lots of mums on display. Halloween decorations in yards. Awesome.

We found a Wal Mart that did not allow RV parking, so we found another one on our way back to Mahoning county which was were we were headed when we took the scenic route.

We will try to find the cemetery were John & Susanna Duer are buried. They were my gggg grandparents. It's hard to write this blog and watch CSI. By

On The Road Again

After a very lazy morning we finally left the Celina, Ohio fair grounds and of course the first stop was Wal Mart to fill with fuel $3.93 a gal. got a .03 discount so was only $3.90 a gal. Went about 30 miles and fuel was $3.85 go figure.

Had a wonderful drive to the Wal Mart in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. No we didn't get to far but, hey, we saw some beautiful farms and the colors of the beans and corn as they dry for picking are a blend of greens, yellows, golds, rusts and are totally awesome. Of course we took a wrong turn to be able to see all of Gods colors on a pretty narrow road I might add. Had to stop and get as far to our side as we could for the other drivers coming toward us to get by.

The sun set is red is that a sign?

Celina, Ohio

Today was the last day of the rally. We have learned so much here, we can't even get our heads around every thing yet. We will be traveling in a much safer way than we have been. We will spend less money then we have been. We will get to much more interesting places than we have been.

That is just the tip. Earl has learned more about using his computer. We have picked up some free programs. We learned how to make this blog and for free. We will soon be able to do a much better job of planning our travels because of a free program we learned about called Google Earth. We can manage our pictures easier, faster, and more economically. You will see more of the places we travel on this blog.

We will stay at Wal -Mart when we leave the fair grounds here in Celina and leave for other parts of Ohio to do genealogy research and then we will head for South Dakota. That's right South Dakota we are changing our residency from Iowa to there. By doing this we will save 6 to 8 hundred dollars on our RV & car insurance. We will not have to pay any state income tax either. We are becoming fugal RVer's.

Love t0 all until we type again!

Let the Blogging begin!

I just learned how to do this blog thing at a very good seminar at the Gypsy Journal RV rally in Celina, Ohio. The presenters were "Geeks on Tour" (Jim & Chris Guld). We are learning a lot of really good info to make our RV life style even better and safer.

Our drive to get to the rally was uneventful. We took highway 30 from Ames, Iowa to Van Wert, Ohio then south on highway 127 into Celina. Beautiful farm county all the way, small towns that looked very interesting. Lots of rain and a little wind until!! we had arrived and parked. Then Ike was felt even here. The motorhome did a fine dance of swaying side to side. Really greatful we were not traveling that day!