Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Sunday and Monday nights we stayed at the Wright-Patterson AFB Famcamp as we have in the past as it is a really nice camp with full paving and fairly near base support facilities.




While there we met and had dinner with our long time friends, Greg and Char O'Brien. Of course neither of us thought to take the camera to dinner so I don't have a good recent shot of them. But if you look back to last October we were in Atlanta for the wedding of their daughter Meghan and we posted a bunch of photos of them then.
We ate at a really neat Italian restaurant ... I guess there is a theme here with Italian dinners ... called Brio in Beavercreek and it was excellent. I wish we could have spent more time with them but we need to keep moving toward Canada ... eh?
So today we headed north toward Michigan. We filled up with about 52 gallons of $1.91 gas in the morning, and then the weather appeared ominous on the radar before we departed ....



but as we went through it, it was one of the milder weather events we have endured with the Flying Scotsman. A little bit of rain and very little wind so easy sailing for about 320 miles to South Haven, Michigan. Yesterday in Dayton it was 85 and we were in short sleeves and today it is about 60 with a very cool, rainy wind ... what a difference. Here's the copilot and her helper as we navigate the trip to Michigan.
And then as we finally came to rest in South Haven at the Sunnybrook RV park where we stayed last August for our family reunion. The boys say they are really tired of this machine moving. Beautiful setting on a neat little lake or pond.