Home on Wheels

My camera died today while we were visiting a museum of wonderfully restored old cars. So we headed for Best Buy and picked up a new Canon SD1300IS. I took a few pictures of the inside of our home on wheels to try out my new purchase.




More later from your ever Happy Travelers....meandering through Michigan on the way to the Upper Peninsula.

Wapakoneta, Ohio

Between the buildings on the main steet, Auglaize Street, is a small park area with this statue by its entrance.
This area is behind the main downtown area. The Farmers Market is held here each Saturday depending on the weather.
In the downtown area, there was an old time barber shop, a lovely old fire station, and old movie theatre, plus container after container of flowers along the side walks.



We took a walking tour of Wapakoneta's historical residential area and I took lots of pictures. Here are a variety of the lovely old homes in various styles--Victorian, Craftsman, bungalows, etc. All of them were beautiful in their own way, some needed a little work but all had such character.







We leave for Davison, Michigan on Thursday. We are holding fast to the motto "Happiness is the journey, not the destination". More later from your very Happy Travelers.

Roscoe Village, Ohio

We drove to this beautiful little village, once a canal hub, and this lovely quilt was hanging in their Visitors Center.
Mr. and Mrs. Funny Bone....just for your enjoyment.

These are a few of the restored buildings in Roscoe Village as well as a lovely home.




This village was a canal spot. This picture is of a canal boat with 3 suites. The captain and his family actually lived on the boat. It now sits in a garden.

Don't you just love flowers....I do. The following are just a few pictures of some of the lovely flowers in Roscoe Village.




Tomorrow we are off to Wapakoneta, Ohio, outside of Dayton. More later from your Happy Travelers

Lone Pine Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

We had the privilege of attending this lovely, warm, rural Disciples Church. They welcomed us and made us feel at home. It was good to be able to take communion with fellow Christians.



During the worship service, we all got up and walked across the road to a very old cemetry. The local VFW had a Memorial Day Service complete with guns and a bugler playing Taps. It was a touching service, especially with the vets being 80 plus years old. What will happen when they are gone?

More later from your Happy Travelers.

Meadowcroft

We drove to Avella, PA for the Meadowcroft History Center. In the Visitors' Center, hanging on the wall was a beautiful quilt done by some local ladies for the Center's 30th anniversary. They had an Indian Village and a reconstructed 1870's village. There was also a place where some archeological finds had been made that shattered previous theories. However, my camera malfunctioned and I could not get a picture of the dig site.

These are some pictures of the reconstructed Indian village of the 1500's.


This was a typical garden for the Indians in the 1500's. They planted corn, beans and squash together. They called it the 3 sisters. Once the corn had sprouted up about 12 inches, they planted the beans so the beans could vine up the corn. Then they planted squash. Pretty neat.
During our visit to the museum, these models of barns were on display. Aren't they lovely.

I almost forgot. When we were in the Indian Village, we each got to try and hit a big elk with an arrow thrown with an "atlatl", a piece of wood that held the arrow and helped you project it further and faster than just trying to throw it. There were 7 of us and guess who hit the target----my dear husband was the only one who hit the target. More later from your Happy Travelers.

The Book Exchange and the Trolley Museum

On Thursday, we found a really neat used book store in Washington, PA. The owner, Jarrod Brooks, could not have been move helpful. He gave us a tour of his shop and introduced us to his two kids, his daughter who will be 3 in June and his son, who will be 5 on August 4. He and his wife have decided that it is very important to be as present as possible in their children's life and thus, his kids go to work with him. He asked about our travels and gave us some tips on places to visit when we get to Michigan and Wisconsin. Jarrod, we wish you the best in your new business and applaud you as a father. On Friday, we traveled to the Trolley Museum for a tour of this form of transportation from the past. There was a film and lots of photographs. Did you know that the first successful trolley system was in our own Richmond, Virginia?
This is Jack. He was our motorman when we took our ride on the trolley. He told us he had worked on the railroad as a teenager/young adult. So when he retired, he felt it was just natural to give of his time to the trolley museum. He was so enthusiastic and such an interesting person. He really made our visit special.
This first picture is a car that works on the rails. These other trolleys have been lovingly restored by a dedicated group of volunteers, yes volunteers. These folks love what they do and they give of their time to work on these old cars.



This car is under restoration at the present time. They hope to get it on the rails by this fall.
Well, tomorrow we are going to the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Museum of Rural Life. Should be interesting. Then we plan to attend a baseball game of the Washington Wild Things. More later from your Happy Travelers.