HOME FOR AWHILE

 we arrive back in ithaca sept 21st around 7pm after being away for 3 weeks...had a good time visiting family and friends long the way also a couple more national parks...


the last few days on the road we visit friends in south bend ,in who are getting ready to move to florida and they probally already have arrive at their new home...we at least had time to catch up on happenings and also some other long time habitat friends joined us for lunch we have not seen russ and peg for s few years...

then on to  indianna sand dunes lakeshore national park and of course we earned another junior ranger badge...after that we headed to adrian, mi and yep meet up with more habitat friends for dinner ...we forgot to camera so we didn't take a picture of this renuion..

now it is time to really start heading east and we wanted to make a stop in ohio to a national park we have often driven by on our way home and heading to flaconer to visit with lar's mom...she has passed so we decided to make a stop at the cuyoga national park...

lar sent out an e-mail saying where we were and low and behol

d we recieved an e-mail for friends back home letting us know that they were in the same park and only a couple rv sites down the row...we had been out for a walk around 7 and they arrived around 7:30 but by then we were back in our rig..so we didn't know they were there till the next morning..funny how things work ..so after breakfast the now 4 of us went off to the park..frank had heard about a steam engine and rides we would take on the train...so then it was a train ride fit into the schedule of things to do...then don't you know the day had been good weather wise except when we got off the train...it poured and i mean hard so we all took a shower again this time in our clothes ahhaha...just another one for the adventure book...


so the next day we went to visit lar's brother jake and sal outside pittsburgh...had a good visit with them and hadn't seen them since lar's mom funeral..

come monday morning it was time to head back to ithaca and it was a long day not one we usually do in the rv...got home in one piece tried but happy to be back...so now the rig is all unpacked and ready for winter all it needs is an inspection which will be while we are gone again but this time by plane...heading to costa rica for 2 weeks next sunday...

so life around 464 in busy but we are both good and trying to keep it that way....

GRAND RAPIDS/HOLLAND MI

we find ourselves in holland , mi and the state park here...on our bucket list is to go to all the presidential library/museum and gerald ford is here in grand rapids...so yesterday we spent the morning there then off to the meijer gardens...had heard alot about them form relatives here so we thought why not...one thing we didn't take into account was they you need at least a whole day to see it all...msaybe next time...

we called habitat friends from dade city jerry and sarah..so sunday of fto breakfast with them had a great breakfast then they took us on tour of the area as we had never been here...saw lots of the area..also took a tour of some of the habitat houses they are building here...i must say we would be very happy living in one of them...some very nice houses..some of the nicest ones we have seen...a lot of thought and enery has gone into them...we were told that the heating and electic bill for one month is about 100.00$$...now won't that be nice and easy to take....they mortage is 700. a month...

we have seen more in michigan than we expected to see so it is on our lis to return to...

life is good...god bless

SLEEPING BEAR DUNES NATIONAL PARK

 we arrived here in the national park area on tues...we had planned on staying at the park but when we called they were filled up so we found a nice park outside the park...it is very quiet and we have full services which we would not have had at the park...which is good cause we needed to dump..

yesterday was a glorious day so off to the park we went...we had been heard about 30 or so years ago with the girls and they spent their time running up and down the dunes...i must say it is not the pace we remembered..then there were only the dunes but not they have several museums in the park which of course we attended... of course we also worked on a junior ranger badge...we were stumped on one of the questions and when we had to booklet checked we asked the ranger the answer she had to think several which seemed like minutes to come up with the answer...we never would have..so i guess we learnt something...we always do...

now today is a different story...we had found a few bike trails and thought today e would take the bikes off the rack and go for a bike ride...we could if we wanted to get wet..we would have to drag out the rain po

nchos so instead we are cleaning and doing paper work...hope to adventure out later in the day when hopefully it might stop raining..

life is good god bless

MICHIGAN

We are on the road again...left enfield sept 1st and headed to jamestown where we spent our first night at brother bill and netta had a good visit ...judy was out of town so we didn't get to see her..


thenext day we headed to dundee, mi where we spent the night at cabella's in their parking lot and of course we had to shop..lar bought a new pair of short hikers but that was it...

then on to royal oak, mi to meet the new great grand niece...jessica and darwin's new wee little one...on thurs andy also came over and was the b-b-q chef had a good visit and it has  been nice to see them all..haven't seen them since sylvina passed away so it was good to touch base again..on fri we went out to dinner at an ethopian restaurant where lar was in his glory as they did NOT serve dinner with any silverware

...it was most interesting and very good...lots of lentials different colors and fixed in a different way......

on sat we moved on to roscommon to visit stu...arrived here around 3  and have been enjoying the visit..off to church yesterday then we adventured of to a farm which was from around 1930 had a tour and heard alot about why the farm was settled and made into a museum...to original man who founded was from attica, ny....also was a guard and good friend of president lincoln..

tomorrow we head towards sleep bear dunes national park...

hope to be able to post more about our sept adventure...

 this was dinner for four...and we had them fill up to plate a couple of times

lar rin hes glory no silverware