Thursday, July 29, 2010

Florida to Indiana


Route and stops through Florida.



Brothers Nick and Chris, sister-in-law Kathy visiting from Chiefland and Indiana.



The yoga girls lunch--Marianne.



The yoga girls lunch--Rae and Diane.
Sorry others couldn't attend.




Visiting our son, Brian and daughter-in-law, Jamie in Tallahassee.







Route and stops through Alabama.






Visiting the Capitol building in Montgomery.



The Capitol building.



The first Confederate White House in Montgomery.




Route and stops in Indiana.





Family reunion:  grand nieces Karen and Kathy with Judy's sister, Catherine.




Family reunion:  terrific food.



Family reunion:  brother-in-law, Al.



College roommates, Jim Turner and Lynda Hurley Turner.



Side trip to Rough River lake homes of brothers Eric (wife, Martha in foreground) and Stephen (wife, Brenda).  Lots of card playing!



Nephew Jason.




Ice cream!  Cousin's shop in Corydon, IN.



Terre Haute Court House.
Many of the County Courthouse buildings rival the Capitol buildings.


St. Mary of the Woods College Cathedral.
The nuns of Our Lady of Providence were educated here and then some of them "tried"
to educate me at OL Providence HS in Clarksville, IN.



St. Mary of the Woods College Cathedral.




RV site in Thousand Trails. Clinton, IN





Parke County, IN 
"The Covered Bridge Capital of the World"
It only seemed like we visited all 39 bridges in the county!
The farm land is covered in corn and soybeans.


One room school house near covered bridge.



Rockville, IN Courthouse. 




Ernie Pyle State Historical Site.  He left IU to become a war correspondent, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day, and was killed in the Okinawa campaign.



Covered bridges.



White Oaks On The Lake Resort, near Monticello, IN
About 100 miles south of Chicago and 75 miles north of Indianapolis.




White Oaks on Lake Freeman.
No pickleball here!



Beginning a little geneological research in Fowler, IN (Benton County).




We found Judy's great aunt. 



Searching for more relatives.
Notice the windmills in the background of the last two pictures?!
We ARE near the "Windy City".


A Purdue Univerisity Boilermaker in West Lafayette, IN.


William Henry Harrison battled against Tecumseh and won here.  Afterword the remaining Patawatomi  were marched at rifle point to Kansas.  That 660 miles was covered in three months on the "trail of death".




Visiting Fair Oaks Dairy.
Milk production tops 250,000 gallons per day!




Visiting Fair Oaks Dairy.
There are eight families running operation on nearly 40,000 acres.
It is one of the largest dairys in the world.
It also produces its own electricity from methane extracted from the manure.



This turntable is the milking station.  The cows move onto the platform and are milked and then back off.  The process takes about ten minutes and yields about 3 gallons of milk per cow. 
The cows learn quickly to get on and off the turntable and appear to enjoy the operation.
There are eight turntables and they operate 21 hours per day.



After visiting the dairy we stopped in Monon, IN and toured the famous? railroad and museum.



I was chained down and could not power the hand car down the track.


It is hot here too!  So, we are heading toward Wisconsin in a day or two.  We are watching the weather to make sure we are not affected by rain.  All is going well and we miss some of you--guess which!
See you whenever.  Enjoy.

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