Heading South

We are embarking on another extended trip. This trip will ultimately end up in Lampe, Missouri, where we will serve for three weeks at the Lives Under Construction Boys Ranch.  We’ve given ourselves three weeks to get there, allowing us to wander and explore between home and there.

A rather major wrinkle in the travel this year: we will have a third person along.  Abigail will be riding with us for the first week and then flying home from Louisville, Kentucky.  In an RV meant for two people, this will mean even closer quarters.  I made a third bed by putting a sheet of plywood across the front seats and a backpacker’s mat on the plywood.  This will be stored on our bed during the day.

We took off at 9am under cloudy, drizzly skies.  The much-needed rain followed us for most of the day.

First stop, Shipshewana, Indiana.  We usually stop here on the way back from a trip and load up on groceries but we stopped on the way out as Abigail has not been there in a while and it makes a nice break in travel.  We ended up spending quite a bit of the day there.  First at Deb’s favorite grocery store where we picked up some supplies and squirreled them away in what little room we had left in the RV.  Then at the department store where Abigail bought a bunch of fabric for some of her projects.  We’re running out of room to store all this stuff and some of it is ending up laying on the floor.

Parts of Shipshewana are decorated in a pumpkin/fall theme and we enjoyed walking amongst all this and taking some pictures.

Abigail shared a giant soft pretzel with us.  It’s a thing in Shipshewana.

Heading south, we stopped in the little town of South Whitley at a city park to make dinner.  With three of us, it is a bit tight, but more hands also make lighter work.  I neglected to take a picture of the barely organized chaos, but it all worked out and we ate well.

We had intended to stop at Ikea in Fishers to pick up a couple of (small) things, but figured out we would arrive there just as it closed, so we headed to our destination for the evening, the parking lot of the Chinese Community Church.  We will be attending their 9am service tomorrow and obtained permission to park overnight.

So now instead of one person on the bed doing her journaling, there’s two, and all her stuff as we haven’t made the bed up front yet.

Miles traveled today: 262