lets catch you up

Hi Everyone

Lets play catch up.

We have spent the summer between ours sons house in Woodstock, Il. and my brothers house in South Bend, In.. While in the Illinois area we went camping with our old club "Des Plaines Valley Camping Club" which is celebrating its 50th anniverary this year! Spent time with lots of old friends and made some new friends. And, of course, our time with our kids and grandsons, snf out familys was the greatest!!!!!

We restarted our full time lifestyle on Sept. 15th, when we headed for Celina Ohio for a RV ralley. It was put on by the Gypsy Journal newspaper, which is a every other month paper designed and edited and printed by a very wonderful couple who have been full time rv'ers for almost 10 years... the rally was in Celina Ohio, and we traveled from South Bend with another couple who we met at the Empress Casino in Joliet, Il. back a month or so ago, Rose and Leroy Roloff. Leroy and Rose left Illinois on Saturday the 14th after 11 inches of rain fell in less than 48 hours. They had to back track and change road a number of times because of the flooding. I-94, I-80 and I-65N were closed due to the rain and they travel lots of different back roads, going less than 100 miles in over six hours!!!!

We had a great time at the rally which was from Sept 15th thru the 19th.....went to a few seminars, won a few door prizes and just enjoyed all the people, especially Rose and Leroy. We hope to hook up with them again in Tunica, Ms. at the casinos and spend several days in October.

We left Celina Friday morning, the 18th and headed South. I wanted to stop at the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio as they have added some new exhibits since I last saw it....it was really great (look it up.... Air Force museusm in Dayton Ohio) I wanted to see the exhibit of the presidential planes which included the three main planes that have flow the presidents since FDR, and includes SAM26000, which is the plane that brought Kennedy back from Dallas and was the plane that Johnson was sworn in as president in.....they removed a bulkhead and some seats to make room for Kennedys casket and you can still see where they cut the bulkhead(wall) out!!!
It was a tremendous amout of walking and I went thru most of it pretty fast, as I had been there before and wanted to see specific things this time, including the presidential planes....sorry, but no pictures(you can go on the web site) If you have never seen a B-52, B-36, C-130, any of the stealth planes, a B-29, B-47....I could go on and on,......up close...it is amazing!!!! standing under the b-52 and looking up into the bomb bays is a humbling experience, believe me....

We left Dayton, which was under major road construction!!!!!including all the roads South. We are somewhere in Kentucky tonight.....after a very stressful afternoon of driving. I missed my turnoff three different times!!!!!!! and had to backtrack, including turning around on the four lane highway at the place where it says no turns, police only.

We will move onto the two lane highways tomorrow heading South, towards Knoxville, Tn.

We will keep you updated from now on, and our plan is to spend some time in Knoxville visiting with our good friends(and ex boss). Linda wants to spend some time with her brother who is moving to Virginia, and he has agreed to meet us halfway...but they are selling one house in North Carolina and closing on another house in Virgina, not too far from Washington D.C., so we will see how that goes.

Take care all of you, and PLEASE write when you can.

If you think someone else would like to read this blog, please send them our web address, we do not have the addresses of a lot of old friends and would like to get in touch with them, if you have their address.....

I am sending this out without pictures, but will send another email with a few pictures attatched later.

As usual.....
with love to all of ya

Jim and Linda