Wednesday, May 9, 2018

First – pictures from Ohio – Megan’s visit.

 

And now that I have my notes, I can fill in details from yesterday and Monday. We stayed in Hillsboro, Indiana Monday night at Charla Rose Lake & Campground. It was the one in the country that was so quiet and peaceful. Tuesday, we stayed in Davenport, Iowa and ate at the Machine Shed – it was like a local Cracker Barrel. It rained most of Tuesday night. We are now on Central Time. The campground was Interstate RV Park and it was NOT quiet. 65 degrees when left this morning at 11:00.

Today, we came across part of Iowa. Not any plowing at the farms – (we are off the interstate now) – hundreds of white, two story farm houses, barns, silos, out buildings, sheds, etc. We made it to Winterset, Iowa and are staying at the Winterset City Park – it is really nice. This is our campsite.

We rode through town – this is the birthplace of John Wayne – there’s a museum we are going to tomorrow. It is also where the Roseman Bridge is – this IS Madison County  and there are many covered bridges – even one in the park!

We are staying here two nights so we can explore tomorrow. Saw a quilt shop in town at 5:00 – it was still open. Went in and the owner was talking to us and telling us about the other worker in there – Tony – who designed quilts, patterns, etc. I saw him and I started thinking, he looks familiar. And then it dawned on me, for my quilting friends – Tony Jacobsen – who’s in all the quilt magazines. As it turned out, there quilt store just happened to be featured in this month’s Quilt Sampler as one of the top ten quilt shops in US. So they gave me an autographed copy! When I finally figured out who he was, I said, “You’re Tony Jacobs?” and he corrected me – Jacobsen – I reached out to shake his hand. And all this time I had been looking around my Tony had been showing this mega-star in the quilting world my puny little quilts from his phone. They both told us to make sure we saw the bridges, the John Wayne museum, and the Iowa Quilt Museum, which was just two doors down from there shop. And they said to go to Frostees to get a lemon malt. So we did. And it was good. Like the lady said, when you are traveling, you’ve got to have ice cream! Can’t wait to see what we find tomorrow while exploring. Oh, and I promised pictures from Sunday, so I saved the best for last.

I guess we will make it back to Ohio by November.