Along the route there is a flood advisory in effect, hope we luck out.
Driving into clouds
Back through Peoria we go!
We get the warning Fortunately all is good, no flood
1121a We cross into Iowa and EDT, now it’s CDT
Up & down the hills we go, we just passed a semi, still in the passing lane when we approach a hill and the semi passes us. Allan says, that’s unusual. The engine light has been continually on.
Not my photos as we came across it too quickly but it looked so interesting. It’s the World’s Largest Truck Stop! It’s about 2h from here; not sure where we’re going next but it would be fun to visit.
There is a Love’s right by the track; we stop to fill up.
Allan starts up; now the error is “Stop Engine” Yep, stuff can always get worse! We are a 3 minute drive to the track. Why us?
We pull into a spot; will have to unhook Bob cause we can’t back up.
Bob’s temp when we unlooked
Our newest error codes! One thing to retrieve another to understand, which we don’t. This Love’s has a repair garage, Allan goes and chats with them. The mechanic says he likely won’t be able to repair but does hook up with computer. Nope he can’t help but did give us a print out of the errors. When Allan restarted the “Stop Engine” light was off. Allan makes the scary decision to do the 3 minute drive to the track.
Here we are!! “The Fastest Short Track on the Planet”
We are so excited to be here and secure in our spot!Our road
Our neighbours decoratedIt’s stinking hot and humid, we’re happy our generator and air conditioners haven’t let us down.
The next 3 days will be packed with excitement. We decided to choice a driver in the leader series named Indy NXT. The drivers compete to be offered a ride in IndyCar. I choose Jacob Abel car 51; Allan’s dude is Caid Collet car 18. Our end of the season reward for winning = breakfast at your choice of restaurant.
Current points standings Jacob 345, Caid 315. The cars race by so quickly, it hard to capture a photo. This is my best attempt
One of these guys is heading the wrong direction… the one on the right in the first photo
One of us isn’t happy with qualifying, Allan 2, me…
Saturday night fire works 🙂
“R” (race) Day, yahoo!!
This is the debut of their new (Allan you may be interested in this link) hybrid engine. Let’s see how it does.
“The strength of this uncharted partnership between Chevrolet and Honda has pushed this innovative project to the grid in 2024,” INDYCAR President Jay Frye said. “The INDYCAR-specific hybrid power unit will bring a new and exciting element to the NTT INDYCAR SERIES with additional energy and overtake options. We cannot wait to see the start of this new era at Mid-Ohio.”
No more photos, going to be concentrating on watching. 🙂
One of us isn’t happy with the results. Allan finished first; me 25th or 3rd from last and one lap down. Why?? What the heck happened??
Josef Newgarden explains his penalties
Newgarden was slapped with a trio of penalties late on. The first was for speeding in the pits, and the second for failing to heed instructions from IndyCar.
Bizarrely, the 33-year-old took another punishment for speeding in the pit lane whilst serving a drive through penalty for his previous offence.
What seems like an amateur mistake has been explained by Newgarden as an error on the part of the technology.
“Another tough weekend for the books,” he wrote on social media.
Lucky Allan gets to make his victory dinner, and you know you’re slumin it when dinner wine is being drunk from “O” glasses. July 08th: Sunrise, nice in the East but much nicer in the West
Travel day
Bye bye Ohio. I rarely get leaving or entering a State sign. Got this one.
About 20 minutes before we get to Love’s Travel Center to fuel Allan goes “Oh fuck” that’s never good. He doesn’t follow up with what the “oh fuck” or perhaps I just ask too quickly… “What?” This light is on
Otherwise known as “Check Engine”
All the gauges look good, pull over and fret or try to make it to Love’s. Love’s it is. Will Bailey start after we fuel? YES!! We find an area to park in so Allan can retrieve the error code. I’m all primed to write it down, we get No Error. Off we go to the campground. Wish we’ll have one leg of our trip with no oh shit moments but that may just be boring.
We’re here! Campbellford KOA
Home for a few daysA walk around the park…
The sign says watch us turn trash into treasure, or something like that. Wonder how long it’s been here
July 09th: Our favourite day of the week!!
It rained most of the day so hopefully it will be nice tomorrow to explore the area.
Where’s Bailey… here she is. Strongly dislike who’s #1
Here we are in New Paris, population 1,474 not much to do but our check in host says to go visit the Amish store so that is where we are headed.
Corn, corn, everywhere corn! We’re right in the middle of corn country!!
Fortune Acres Amish Store
Stuff, they have lots of stuff along with food and corn. Yes we bought corn and hot peach salsa. We should have bought 2!
Cash only as Amish do not embrace technology, I guess at least until it suits them. They do use cash registers, suits them, no credit would suit us.
“The Amish have a complex relationship with technology. Historically, they have been known to reject the use of technology and rely instead on manual labor and traditional values. While some Amish communities still follow this tradition today, plenty of Amish people use electricity. Amish technology restrictions vary by order, but many Amish groups believe that technology can undermine their traditions and values. They may prohibit technologies they believe are antithetical to their values, while choosing others that they believe will strengthen them.”Back at the ranch, the grounds are very nice. Let’s be swingers!
Our view Quick game of corn hole, ya ME!!
Firewood here isn’t amazing
July 03rd: Yahoo for laundry day!!
Today’s reward, a walk through Greenville, OH
Just a random flower on our site
And the winner is!!
Fireball for price; Fire for sugar content. Confused about the calorie count though.
We delay leaving Arrowhead for as long as we could, check out is at noon but we are too anxious to get to the track, we leave at 1130. Problem, track check in isn’t till 5. What the heck most peeps aren’t rule followers, let’s be rebels. The roads heading out are narrow, no lines. Not quite as narrow as coming in but still narrow.
So much rain
Then Allan puts on the 4 ways and slows down. “What’s going on” I ask! Trim is peeling away. Another day, another issue. Said it before RVing isn’t for the faint of heart.
The next exit isn’t that far, let’s go there. 45 mins later, good cause it delays our arrival time at the track…zip ties and go fast tape… let’s see how far we make it.
The rebels in us puts us ion line
Home for the next few days Make it to our spot and wake up to …
July 05th: Check out the booths and swag. Allan gets to play the simulator and finishes in first place!
2 ways to get here, the first is though the little towns we travelled through when we visited Muncie in Bob. Lets use the bigger highway.
It’s going good… until we have to enter to BIG highway 70 East. Oh boy, construction…
Used to this, except, a dump truck like the yellow cab one pulls out in front of the semi in front of us making the semi veer off. A few minutes down the road, the dump truck’s tire delaminated. First we see a “thing” run horizontally across the highway. Fortunately it missed the semi and us. Then rubber was falling off, the semi has passed the dump truck, do we pass or not? The dump truck doesn’t stop but does move over to drive partially on the shoulder. Allan passes!
Next! What do we see ahead?
The highway is completely closed. What happened? The glass windows will not be delivered as they are covering the entire highway. This will take hours to clean up. Emergencies services were not yet on scene.
“Ethel” (yes I name everything), my GPS is taking us down some very narrow, not sure another vehicle can share the road roads.
Finally we are here, the right hand turn into the park is. OMG, tight. No photos as I got out to navigate the turn. Made it 🙂How the heck to you measure the 1/2?
Today was likely one of the shortest, stressful trip! We’re all snug now.
Jury is out on the winner, however Fire has less sugar. Fire is usually the same cost for a small bottle as Fireball is for a big one. This is the first time we’ve ever seen a 1.75 L bottle of Fire, price 36.99 they had a 750 bottle as well for 34.99.
The drive was, thankfully, uneventful. We encountered much traffic in Indianapolis, but after maneuvering Chicago it was a breeze. Go figure, we wanted to return to Indianapolis in Bob to go to the Indy500 museum but it’s closed for renos till 2025.
Muncie RV Resort
Surprisingly Muncie RV Resort is NOT in Muncie but in Anderson. Munsie is 1/2 hour away.
Our escort to our site
Bob’s temp reads 111F/44C
That’s what sucking Bailey’s bum does I guess cause the real temp was 92F/33C
Bailey’s site, Bob is way back there. This is a very long site.
Our walk around the park, there is a little lake with a beach. Also has catch & release fishing.
This is a liar’s bench LOL
The view from our captain seats
June 25th: We went to check out Anderson. Not much happening in Anderson :)
We did get a Reward for our efforts, first one is quite awhileJune 26th: Muncie Day including The Guardian Brewery
I tried 5 samples of beer, I’m just not a beer gal. Bring on the
Allan declare his “Bill the Butcher” pizza a close rival to Jimmy’s, my meatball sub was gooey delicious. Didn’t realize I caught Allan in an eye blink, he’s not really sleeping. They have the beer making process on a blackboard. Not sure what the seats are.Our favourite part of the process…..Glass –> You!
Walking we find this theatre, Mary Poppins is playing. What a blast from the past, this was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theatre.
Muncie does have a small downtown, no photos.
Tomorrow perhaps a winery. This area isn’t the most exciting we’ve been to.
We’re sitting inside enjoying qualifications for tomorrow’s @IndyCar race, WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, when BANGWe rush outside to find it wasn’t the sky but a tree!Allan calls the park’s office and they arrive quickly with their bobcat
One guy runs the bucket, other guy gets in.
The man, the throw
We had him take photos of the roof, cause, still no way either one of us is going up there. All’s good, no damage!! It was a long, dead branch but my Super Man aka Fire God, was able to display it 🙂
Today’s outing is to the casino that’s 13 minutes away. Catchy name, Par-A-Dice
As a first for us, the casino is a separate building from the hotel
Another new to us, the casino is in a ship! Allan’s slot machine
We each gamble $20 when it’s gone it’s gone. Who parlayed their $20 to $80?? Not me ☹️
Snack time!
What’s that??? A robot delivering food to tables, never saw this before. It’s made right here in Peoria by Pringle Robotics. This model is the “Puductor”
Brings to food to the table, waiter unloads Heads back to the kitchen
Another order
This is a flash back to the Road America Race on June 9th
We found a free parking lot which is a bonus cause we don’t have any change for the parking meters.
What’s strange about this clock tower? All 4 sides of the clock are showing the correct time! Mags, we thought of you when we saw this… kinda knew you’d love it.
It’s a quiet town, hardly saw any people, but there aren’t any cute shops. Seems strange for a downtown. They do have a trail along the river front which was nice.
What’s missing at this dock?
Boats!!
This is how we do tacos in Bailey. One of Costco’s inexpensive wines. Pretty good.
Dessert!! Freezies are great in this hot weather June 20th: Yahoo it’s another laundry day!!
These are the first 2 boats we’ve seen since we’ve been here.
Super Suds here we come! It’s in a neighbouring town, Washington, much like Lethbridge most places are 15 minutes away. We are super pleasantly surprised; there is only one other person doing laundry and there’s tons of machines. Best – it’s super clean!
When the laundry is doing it’s thing, we walk. Got a chuckle out of this signYep, we, rather me, was very excited about how nice the laundry mat is.
The drive was fun cause we weren’t always on major highways. It was windy but Allan got it done 🙂 We are in a “heat dome”, first time we have heard this term. What is it??A heat dome is a weather phenomenon where a high-pressure area is formed in the atmosphere, which traps hot air beneath like a lid traps air in a pot. The pressure pushes air down into a hotter, dome-shaped mass and prevents the milder weather systems from moving through.
Most everywhere we go we hear “this is not usual for this time of year”. This normally means it’s friggin cold, rainy, windy. This time is “it’s not usually this hot”
Current temp
7 day forecast
Back at the campground; strangest one yet. No site numbers, the host guides you to your site and no rules sheet.
Our view from the captain seats
Our walk around the camp grounds. This photo has a deserted boat
T’is nice here
The beach
How ever did this monster ship get on land? Tomorrow, downtown – we think 🙂
Back through Peoria we go!
Fortunately all is good, no flood
Quick game of corn hole, ya ME!!
How the heck to you measure the 1/2?
Bob’s temp reads 111F/44C
We rush outside to find it wasn’t the sky but a tree!
