Nebraska, Iowa, to Goshen, Indiana – June 11-18, 2014

Since we traveled most of this route last year and since we were both exhausted from traveling all day, and worrying about was in store for us with the RV, I didn't take many photos on this leg of the trip. The morning we left Colorado we saw the last snow-capped mountains we'd see this year, I did get another beautiful sunset in Chappell, NE (no matter how many I've seen, a sunrise or sunset is something to behold), and a pair of does in Iowa. We spent a full day in Nebraska and another in Iowa to get more packed, firm up our storage unit rental, and finish up arrangements for dropping off the RV at Forest River in Goshen.

We arrived at the Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds, where we would stay for two nights. It was about ten miles from our storage unit but that is the only good thing I can say about it. I don't think there was a square foot of the “campground” that was level and the restrooms were a quarter of a mile away.

We got nearly everything to the storage our first full day there and on the way back to camp passed through an area of Amish farms. They are almost always beautifully maintained and we saw a farmer harvesting his crop with (draft) horse drawn equipment. Sadly, I missed getting a photo.

The next morning we were up early and on our way to Forest River. We met a nice young Amish man, Floyd, who spent time with us talking about the problems we were having and the fixes. He discounted the answers we got from Mark at Sanders RV about the reason the floor was bad and said they would replace the sidewalls and let us know about the floor. If it was a construction problem they would fix it at no charge, but if it wasn't, it would cost $6,000. I nearly had a stroke.

Floyd gave us the name of a little restaurant in the nearby town where we had breakfast and it was just what we needed – good coffee, good food, and a great waitress. When she came to top-off our coffee and ask if we needed anything else, she mentioned pie and I confessed I'd been wanting ice cream and hot fudge topping. She said she could pack some up for us, so we had ice cream and hot fudge for dessert on the road! It was just what we needed for the 10 hour trip to Rich's brother's house, where we would stay for the two weeks the RV would be in the shop. We were looking forward to seeing friends and family and having a couple of restful weeks.