Elaine and Joe CC 2019

Rather than do a long drive too Buffalo we chose to break up the drive by camping halfway between Maumee bay and Buffalo at Geneva State park, which is also lakeside to Lake Erie.  Along the way we got to drive through downtown Cleveland. Driving through Cleveland we got to see where the Cleveland Indians play. Me getting wet in Lake Erie Elaine and I doing a selfie with lake Erie behind us While biking around Geneva State park we came upon an ice cream stand with a familiar brand of ice cream from friends in Colorado Springs

We visited the Jayco Class C factory tour on Monday.  It was a great tour.  The factory staff are 60% Amish from local farms.  The tour was very different from the other two tours we had. We were allowed to get right on the factory floor, very close to the units that were being assembled.  A Jayco product manager gave the tour.  We started with a comprehensive explanation of the chassis design as we literally stood right at a chassis.  We then followed the line and watched as walls and other equipment was added.  I now have a great understanding of the Jayco chassis design.  I am ready to build my own! At the Jayco visitor center we again got to tour new Jayco units in the back yard of the center.  After Jayco we headed east to Ohio and settled in a great state park for some r&r for two days at Maumee Bay on the western shore of Lake Erie. Our site at Ebys campground in Bristol IN Before going to the Jayco plant we had to stop at Walmart one more time and saw these sho

On Saturday we continued east to Bristol, Indiana which is midway between Elkhart and Middlebury.  Both Elkhart and Middlebury have sights and rv factories we wanted to see. We landed at a private campground called Eby's Pines in Bristol.  We got a nice site near a pond. On Sunday we did a lot.  We started by visiting the RV Hall of Fame museum.  It is a great museum which has both representative examples of old and modern rv's.  It is a great experience.        After the rv museum we did some shopping at my favorite store when rv'ing: Walmart. From there we visited a jewel of a museum in downtown Elkhart: the Midwest Museum of American Art. It contained a great exhibit of  sculptor Tuck Langland and a comprehensive exhibit of full sized signed lithographs of Norman Rockwell. At the end of our visit we had a nice discussion with the director and curator of the museum Brian Byrn. We ended this full day with a few hours at the local laundromat while it rained.  What a day!

We left Winnebago in Forest City and headed east for Wisconsin and a campsite in Woodman.  It was a small campground between two roads and we were the only occupants.  But it was fine.  The next morning we headed for Richland Center to visit the homestead of our neighbors in Worcester. After a very nice visit there we went a short distance to Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin in Spring Green.  There we took the  Taliesin   house tour and got a good exposure to his unique architecture.  From Spring Green we headed a short distance east and camped south of Madison, Wi. at Thousand Trails in Milton. Crossing the Mississippi Prairie Du Chien and Elaine got a good picture of the river and a riverboat So when we arrived at Woodman the population swelled to 134... The most unusual campground to date was at Woodman between two roads but very nice. Visiting the Straights: Ron and Isabella at their homestead in Richland A nice view the the Straight homestead and thei

From Center Point Iowa we continued north to Forest City Iowa and the Winnebago plant tours.  Winnebago must have been named after the Winnebago River which we crossed on the way there.  The Winnebago visitor center was very impressive.  They had a lot of exhibits, many new rv's to tour and many staff to answer any questions.  The Winnebago tour was also very impressive and very organized.  They drove us in mini buses to each plant after outfitting us in orange vests, safety glasses that actually fit, and great ear plugs.  The tour gave us a great understanding of how a class C RV is assembled from the chassis up.  I can't wait to try and build one myself!  At the end of the tour we looked through all the new rv's they had parked outside the visitor center.  From Forest City we set off east for Wisconsin landing in Woodman Lake Campground site #1. On the mini bus at Winnebago In front of the Winnebago visitor center The line up of new rv's to tour after