LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES, FALL 2012

I’m sitting under Saffire’s awning looking out over Kentucky Lake, listening to a flock of geese honking as they head south.  The rain that has been my constant companion since we got on the road last Sunday is finally lessening, and by afternoon the sun’s bright rays should be peeking through.

Teresa and Molly arrive today, so the sun will shine one way or another!!

You may think I need to hire on a good navigator when I tell you that I left St. Louis and ended up at Kentucky Lake via northern Indiana!  Call me crazy but I took Teddy to a holistic vet in Battle Ground, IN.  He’s had an injury plaguing him for a couple of years that the vets in STL haven’t helped with.  We went north to see a vet who’s the friend of a friend.  I’m hoping it helps him, it’s kind of a last shot.

If anyone ever has a reason to visit Perdue University the Prophetstown State Park outside of Lafayette is very nice.  Full facilities, biking path and a turn of the century demonstration working farm.  Going to the farm was like visiting my grandparents and aunts and uncles.  When I arrived the farmer was in the field plowing with two sets of beautiful Belgian work horses, the difference would have been my grandfather’s mules.

And a good stop in Effingham, IL is Camp Lakewood.  Very clean and sits on a little lake.  If you can get an outer spot you’d think you were in a state campground rather than an overnight stop on the interstate.

The first signs of winter’s arrival greeted me in Indiana.  I saw some spectacular, brilliantly colored trees.  I guess they are nature’s distraction so that you ooh and aah over them and forget that they usher in damp, cold, dreary weather.  

Did you ever notice as you drove down the road that there are some semi’s with rectangular windows and an exterior visor over the window?  These seem to be the same semi’s with a row of lights across the front bumper and on the sides.  And a huge, shiny radiator.  I think they are evil looking!  Either in the mirror or coming down the road toward me I never fail to think of Stephen King and Christine!!!!!

So I’m at the Land Between the Lakes in the Hillman’s Ferry campground in site C58, one that I would take again.  Friends from all over the country arrive beginning today.  

I think BJ from Sacramento will win the prize for distance, but we’ll have VA, IL, MO, FL, GA, NC, TN, WI, OH, CO, CA ......I think that’s it....all here before the week is over.