Friday, August 28, 2020 - Happy Birthday Brett; Moving Day to Fort Wayne, IN - Johnny Appleseed RV Park

Friday, August 28, 2020 - Happy Birthday Brett; Moving Day to Fort Wayne, IN - Johnny Appleseed RV Park

Happy birthday Brett.  We weren't able to see him, but we will be spending some time with him and his family before he leaves on the 7th making his way west to Winnemucca, NV to begin his new job.

Dean and I were up early.  Poor Dean, he has been without coffee for several days.  I forgot to mention in an earlier post, that after doing the dishes Monday, I leaned a very small lightweight cookie sheet (that fits in my microwave) against the coffee carafe, on the draining mat.  Later I set something down on the mat.  It moved things just enough the coffee carafe fell off the counter and shattered into hundreds of pieces.  That was fun to clean up!!  At least there was no coffee in it!

I had purchased a small jar of instant coffee recently with plans to make an ice coffee drink.  I sure was glad we had it on hand, even if I did have to add Stevia and half and half to it in order to drink it.  I've been drinking it, but after the first cup Dean said no more!  We stopped at a Walmart on our way back from the Science Museum on Tuesday.  I've been wanting a combination coffee pot and K-cup dispenser, however they didn't have the one I wanted, so we just bought a carafe instead.  Well, in my defense since I didn't think I would need to buy a carafe instead of a new coffeepot I didn't bother paying attention to what brand our coffeepot was.  I thought we had a Black & Decker coffee pot.  Instead we have a Mr. Coffee so the carafe would not fit.  So far, we haven't had the time to return it, so Dean has been going over to Matt's cabin to have coffee every morning.  It's time to fix that.

We put everything away, put the slides in, hooked the RV up to the truck so we would be able to leave immediately after saying our goodbyes to Matt, Megan & the grandkids.  We had such a great time visiting with them.  It's hard to say goodbye, not knowing when we will get to meet up with them again.  

We pulled out of the park at 9:04am, only a few minutes past our planned time.  We had to stop to drop off trash and I walked our keycard they gave us upon arrival to get in the park, up to the office.  In just a few minutes we were on our way.

Less than 20 minutes later the sky opened

It let up after 5 minutes

We were glad to see it change to this 4 minutes later.

Leaving PA - we will travel across Ohio for the next several hours

Lake Milton, OH - Ominous looking!

We were glad to see a bit of light again - The sign to the right tells us we are on The Military Order of the Purple Heart Memorial Highway.

Just before 11am here it came again

We were starting to get hungry.  We found a truck stop along the Interstate with a Wendy's.  We didn't have a thing left in the refrigerator to make lunch today, so Wendy's sounded good!  We really enjoyed the cheeseburgers!

Here we go again a little after 2pm.

Seeing a rain storm like this out in an open field is beautiful to me as long as it is not bringing destruction to the farmers.

It was 3:45pm when we parked at Johnny Appleseed Campground in Fort Wayne, IN.  It continued to rain on us, off and on.  After we stopped at the office to get our site number, it started to sprinkle.  We barely got everything set up that was necessary when it started a light rain.  No more than what it took for both of us to get inside Bentley, the sky opened once again.  I'm so thankful we did not have to setup in a heavy rain.  We enjoyed resting a bit after being in the truck for 6.5 hours.  

Due to the rain, we really didn't get to explore this park at all.  It has full hookups, however we only need electric for this overnight stop.  There were very good reviews online.  I tried to make reservations to stay here before heading to Pennsylvania but there were no sites available.  I decided to try for an overnight on our return to Indiana and was surprised they had a spot for us.  It's the only campground in Fort Wayne and it was almost full when we arrived, and a few other rigs came in after us. 

By now, we were both getting hungry, and Dean needed DEF for the truck, before we leave Fort Wayne.  He looked online, and found an Auto Supply store less than a mile away.  In the meantime I was researching something quick to eat.  We were tired, and just wanted to pick someting up and bring it back to Bentley.   We decided to try Rally's for chicken and fries.  We've never tried this fast food restaurant before, but we will definitely go back.  For just over $5 for the two of us, we each had a nice sized container of some very good french fries and more chicken bites than we imagined, plus our drinks.  When we placed our order and she gave us the price, I asked her about the size of the meal.  I did not imagine we could get enough food for that price and satisfy our hunger - but it did!  

We returned to Bentley to eat our meal.  Afterwards I worked on the blog and Dean enjoyed some TV.  We were both tired after 7 full days of being on the go - driving two long days and being on the go with family.  It was a great time and we are so glad we were able to meet up with Matt & family.  It was worth being tired!!  LOL!

Tomorrow we head to Illinois - check out where we stop in the next post.