Sally and Gregg on the Road

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

We are thankful for...

Beautiful weather this week - low 80's & low humidity. Good biking weather.
Got our door locks fixed and we hit the road again.
Joined our friends Jan and Chuck at Swan Lake State Park in Carroll, IA.
Meeting new friends along the way - people we hope to see again some day.

Had our trees trimmed in the campground yesterday...

Found a cute little bar in a tiny Iowa town on our bikes - full of mounted animals, large and small, and even a deer hind-end. A First....

Met some roamers like us ... traveling around looking for bike trails. Hope to run

into Ted & Colleen from Maryland again some day - "Fools On a Mission to Tour America at 10 mph" -

Gary and Judy have 2 Lions club exchange students staying with them this month. We joined all of them in Pender, Nebraska for a Quasquicentennial parade that included Shriners from all around. Lots of the little cars, etc and Gary's White Horse Mounted Patrol group from Sioux City. So beautiful to see. After the show, they put the Lions Club girls up on the horses. That's
Birute from Lithuania and Zophia from Slovakia. They are delightful, speak English very well, and are really enjoying being "Iowa Farm Girls". Birute calls our RV a "Driving House". I like it! Going to use that from now on...

The corn will definitely NOT be "knee high by the Fourth of July" this year ... unless it's the Jolly Green Giant's knee. More like "as high as an elephant's eye." The rains have been perfect for corn so far ... and now need to slow down. Water table is up so high that creeks and rivers now overflow with every rain.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

BUSY in Iowa

That's Gary (Gregg's brother) and Judy's whole family gathered together for their 50th Wedding anniversary weekend. Big party. Lots of fun.

Gregg with his Grandpa's '55 Chevy. We took it to a car show in Le Mars, Ice Cream Capital of the World.

Hay rakes make the BEST photographic subjects...

The Schindel Family farm. Three Schindel families living here when we are here. Gregg grew up here.

Cowboy the gorgeous farm Collie

Gary is training this pretty white filly -Bing's Blanca - 2 years old.

Beautiful to see him work her out in the yard outside our RV window.

This twin was abandoned by its mother who favored the other so we get to feed her. She finishes that huge bottle in no time flat and begs for more.

9:40 at night on the longest day of the year, June 21st.

Gregg managed to get 5 of his high school classmates and spouses together for a cookout.

Got to see our Prescott friend Mary Mordino who was in town for a High School Reunion in Le Mars. She's waving from the float in the Ice Cream Days Parade.

Mary and I had a dream of meeting up in Iowa some day to eat together at Bob's Drive In (there since 1949), home of The Bob Dog...we did it!!!

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Omaha Dance Recitals and Soccer Tournament

The post we had never wanted to make...

Afternoon burglary in a city campground in Omaha - NP Dodge Park. Lost a lot of stuff (bike, computer, camera, electronics, check books) but it could have been worse. They missed a lot and apparently left in a hurry since they left our printer and a frozen pork roast in the living room.

Now we know, to avoid burglary, it is better to:
- park near other campers rather than be isolated.
- park in the center of a campground, rather than against a woods.
- have an alarm system.
- don't become complacent

Lessons:
- hide valuables well, just in case.
- back up computer files.
- be able to retrieve and quickly change all passwords.
- have records of valuables, when purchased and purchase price.
- have pictures of insides of cabinets so you can recall what was in them.

We learned most RV burglary entries are by broken window, not jimmied door locks like ours. We are lucky to now be at Gregg's brother's farm in Iowa where we can wait, unlocked, for the 2 weeks it will take to get the door locks replaced.