The Road Less Traveled
After Clarksville Tennessee we got on US41 to the north and headed through Kentucky and then Indiana. We landed at the KOA in Terre Haute where we have stayed several times. This is another of the stops on the "Anniversary Tour" for the Flying Scotsman as we stayed at this park exactly 10 years earlier in 2007.
The barn is a bit shabbier than ten years ago but the donkeys looked the same ... I'll have to write the owners and see if they really are the same guys or not. The first post from ten years ago has a picture of them near the same barn ... but I'm not good at recognizing a burro I've met before!
At the KOA we had a really heavy rain ... sometimes it is hard to talk or listen when the rain is pounding the roof of our tin can house.
But here it is below. This is the ideal road experience. By staying on the two lane roads we had a smooth, slow ride where we could look at the countryside. The part of 41 in Indiana was really surprising as we were used to the flat cornfields but this stretch was winding with beautiful hills and valleys in the early spring.
The winds were pretty strong though and when we got up onto the higher flat pieces with the semis coming by a piece of decorative molding on the roof edge began to come off and really pound the top of the bus.
After crossing into Michigan on the 27th of April on another 200 plus mile trip we picked the KOA located in Covert Michigan. While not near the beach like South Haven it is a large park surrounded by woods and lakes. The sites are level gravel and the host lent me a ladder to cut and rip off the offending piece of molding. The bad part about the place was some folks who were allowed to come into the park about midnight, set up, and began to party till 3am ... won't be back to that place!
Then on the 28th across Michigan to stay at Port Huron until our Customs Nexus interview and Jo-Anne's allergy shot on Monday the first of May.
Well ... sort of. We decided to go eastward across Michigan on highway 21from Ionia and at a lunch stop in Owasso we decided to call the KOA in Port Huron and let them know we were coming ... oooops. They rather rudely told us they wouldn't be open until Monday the first and the same was with the other KOA in Port Huron .... aaah ... what to do now.
We got out the big Good Sam bible and started to call all the parks within 40 miles of Port Huron. Finally we came across the Lake Huron Campground in Port Sanilac which is about 30 miles north of Port Huron.
Luckily the park has turned out to be quite nice and the little town of Port Sanilac is very attractive. Above is their restored lighthouse and the lake is just beyond. We didn't do much walking as the weather is about 40 degrees and a very strong north wind making the wind chill pretty near freezing.
It's now Saturday night and we'll talk more about the RV park and our experience here in the next post.
