Sept 29th to Oct 1st - Howe, IN

Sept 29th - Mon - to Howe, Indiana
Quiet night in the WalMart parking lot. It is a 24 hour store but the parking lot is huge and we parked at a far corner. So other than the light from the lamp posts that made us feel like we were in Alaska, it was a good night.
We backtracked a bit to head for a main state route to Indiana and listened to Wanda telling us to turn on all sorts of “lesser” roads. Still lots of construction with a final detour that took us about 12 miles out of the way because of a 5 mile stretch that was closed. We left the flat corn fields for more rolling land and still lots of farms. Arrived at the campground about 2:30.
We are staying at Twin Mills CG (CCUSA), a large place with about 300 permanent sites and 300 “overnight” sites. Again, only a few temporaries - 5 in our pull-through row that holds about 20. We are near Elkhart & Goshen where a lot of RVs are manufactured. We are also in Amish country and there are lots of horse drawn buggies on the roads. Amish houses can be identified by clothes hanging on lines and no power lines running to the house.
I think we should charge people for our rain-producing abilities! This area has not had rain for 13 days and this evening it had to start raining. Not too much but we certainly were not sitting outside.

Sept 30th - Tues - Howe, IN
Apparently there is another state in this part of the US. Newscasters and weather reporters refer to this area as “Michiana”. The parts of Michigan and Indiana wrapped around the lower south-west portion of Lake Michigan are so connected with businesses, towns & roads that they are referred to as one area.
Lots of things to see here so we started today by checking out an RV parts/salvage/everything store. It is actually several building and gets a lot of the inventory from the RV factories around this area. It also has such things as appliances, furniture & tables that people trade in or just change out while new or near new. I keep thinking that I would like different recliners but it probably won’t happen. Next we went to the large flea market in nearby Shipshewana which is open on Tuesday & Wed. Clouds threatened and there were puddles to show a downpour before we got there but we experienced only a few drops of rain. The flea market is open until the end of October but quite a few vendor spots are already vacant. Still lots of things to look at.
We didn’t have lunch while we were out so we came back to the rig where I decided to make an early dinner instead of ruining our appetites with a snack and then not wanting dinner until very late.
Posted some pictures this evening - check them out.

Oct 1st - Wed - Howe, IN
It is not getting light in the morning until nearly 8 so it is easy to be lazy like we were this morning. When we got going we headed to Auburn, about 40 miles away, to see the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. It is an amazing collection of cars, design plans, films and misc other related stories & items. The building used to be the manufacturing site for the cars but is beautifully redone for the museum. I have a lot of pictures that do more justice to the cars than anything I say here.
We stopped at a fast food place in Auburn on the way back for some great chicken strips. Then I found a salon for a haircut in a small town. We had our mail forwarded and it was here when we returned. There were a couple of rebate checks that were issued 7/3 and were not good after 90 days so we immediately made a trip to the Bank of America in Elkhart to deposit them - by my calculation tomorrow would have been 31 days. I guess we will have to get our mail forwarded more often.
Some phone calls based on received mail, dinner, some TV and the day is done.