The Long, Long Day

The longest day—13 hours on the road. We got what we thought was a very early start, getting on the road at 6AM while the rest of New Jersey slept. Most of the day was spent on I-80…long stretches of nothing….New Jersey, Pennsylvania (what a very LONG state), Ohio and finally getting to Indiana. It was a race to the factory as we watched the sun slowly sinking and our available light dwindling. We thought that the trek west might work in our favor, but by 7:30 the sun had pretty much disappeared. We lucked out with the only pull-through left in the parking lot, so there was no crazy “back-in’s in the dark” to deal with. While I got the motorhome set up, John drove over to the “Hideaway” (the “Hunter’s Hideway”) and got two blue cheese/olive burgers to go. Wine, burgers and we crashed.

Sunday in Nappanee used to be tolerable—when the local grocery store, Martins, carried the NY Times and the Chicago Tribune. No more- the demise of the newspaper in our country has hit Nappanee and John brought home the “Elkhart Truth”. The only good thing about being in Nappanee—no prayers or fast beating hearts when you start up the motorhome. You actually hope that anything that could go wrong will go wrong while you’re there.