Last day in Elkhart area.....

June 29 – No rush this morning, our last day in Indiana.  I cooked the sausage I got at the Amish shop and it was OK but our local butcher in Winter Garden does better.  I promised Bill we’d have fruit and sausage at home and on the way to Elkhart we’d stop at a shop we’ve seen for a breakfast pastry.  So we got ready, ate our half breakfast and stopped at The Bakery Next Door and each had a big muffin.  Mine was blueberry and Bill had raspberry.  It was the best muffin I’ve ever had.  It was heavy and moist, very cake-like.  Yummy for sure!

We drove on to Elkhart and found the RV/Motorhome Hall of Fame.  The building is rather new and it’s a beautiful space with a grand staircase to the upstairs.  We watched a movie first that covered how and when it got started and what order to visit the rooms.  They have a nice gift shop with souvenirs

as well as camping items.  There a hall of all the inductees over the years and a huge area of vintage RV’s.  I think the oldest was 1929 or so.  They have been donated, some refurbished, some kinda rough but it interesting to see.  We saw some of the originals that they are now making Retro models of.  There were several from the year I was born. 

There’s a room with some current models for show that come from the local factories.  Someone made an excellent display showing models of the process and it’s exactly like we saw at the factories.  That took a lot of work!  Bill bought a magnet but they had some cute things for camping and signs to put out.

We stopped at Aldi for cereal and then headed to Middlebury.  There was a detour, of course, and we found an alternate route and it’s a nice ride.  There is a big Jayco plant there and we had them passing us in each direction.  There are lots dotted around town with 5^th wheels and travel trailers.  When we stopped on Main Street for lunch there was a continuous flow of trailers and 5^th wheels the entire time.  After lunch we drove a couple miles out of town to see where the plant is.  There were a couple of other brands also.

From Middlebury we drove to Shipshewana to an Amish company that makes house and RV furniture.  We’d looked at their products before in Florida but with shipping it was a little expensive.  We are still talking about getting 2 recliners and they have a little 6 inch table for between them with 2 cup holders and drawers in front that you can put your books or magazines in.  We’re going to think about it and see what we come up with.

We made a couple of stops in Shipshewana at a bulk food store and the meat shop for

some scrapple to freeze for later.  Then it time was to head for home.  Molly was glad to see  us and while we were gone we got 2 new neighbors.  The place is filling up for the holiday week.  We put our purchases away and I made a meatloaf.  Then we rested and read while the meatloaf was cooking.  We had corn on the cob and salad for dinner.  I really wasn’t very hungry as we’d had a big breakfast and I had a big lunch. 

After dinner Bill emptied the tanks and put things away outside and I downloaded 3 days of photos and tried to hotspot my phone but didn’t have any luck.  My signal isn’t too good to start with.  I did pay some bills on my phone though!

Bill did the dishes and now we’ll read since we have no TV.  We have certainly enjoyed this area but look forward to meeting everyone at Lake She-nepp-a-ho tomorrow.  I think it’s about 3 hours or so.