Our family's home state.
And our short route through this visit.
Judy and her brother Bill arriving at the wedding.
The wedding ceremony of Carly Niermeier and Justin Dohoney
(Judy's nephew and the reason for the second southern Indiana visit
this year..
Carly reads her self-written vows.
John L. and Judy after the wedding ceremony.
At the reception: Judy's sisters, Juanita and Catherine.
Catherine and Lauren Brown.
Joan and Jack Dohoney, sister-in-law and brother.
Evelyn, sister-in-law, and brother Bill Dohoney.
Dorothy, sister-in-law, and brother John L. Dohoney.
The Groom's cakes.
Cutting the wedding cake.
We had a chance to visit the Paul's side of the family too.
We got to meet our newest great-nephew, Kaelin Shepard,
second son of Cory and Brittaney.
Aspen, Kaelin's BIG sister.
Nephew, Cory and his son, Lincoln. The BIG brother.
We also visited Aunt Irene. She was married to by dad's brother.
After his death she married my mom's brother.
We visited Susan Popp
(brother Eric's daughter) and her two kids, Hanna and Isaac.
We forgot the camera. Sorry that you guys did not make it onto the net!
Next time you will be the stars!
We will see you at Thanksgiving.
Man, here is a jump in theme!
After the Civil War, when troops were being shipped home,
some still did not make it.
On the banks of the Ohio River in southern IN
there is a memorial containing seven graves of soldiers.
They were on their way home when, during an
August, 1865, storm their boiler exploded and they were killed.
We also had a chance to visit and work on Jim and Lynda Turner's Laconia farm.
Here, Dennis and neighbor, Larry, and Jim harvest a large hickory log
that will become a couple of beams to build a hay loft in the barn.
Lunch break with Larry (neighbor) and Jim (serving).
Kentucky sites.
We grew up near Louisville, Kentucky,
and even though we are proud Hoosiers,
we consider the entire area our home.
RV buddies, Gary and Gundi Bechthold. We originally met them in California
their home state. We have since visited with them in Canada, Florida, and now
Kentucky.
They geo cache.
Gary especially loves it, and here, in a bonus site, one was close to our Mexican lunch.
Did you notice that they are using our signature pose!
Zachary Taylor's burial site in Louisville Kentucky at
Zachary Taylor National Cemetery.
Another Presidential Site.
This time Lincoln at Louisville's Farmington plantation.
He observed slaves here and committed himself to oppose slavery.
Farmington's Manor House.
Judy, picking tomatoes in the historical garden.
We "hiked" across the Big Four Bridge over the Ohio River.
The historical railroad bridge has been converted into a
pedestrian walkway connecting two parks in
Indiana and Kentucky.
The bridge got its name from the now defunct
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railway.
View of downtown Louisville from the bridge.
On the Kentucky side of the bridge.
(No, we haven't downsized. It's not ours)
Locust Grove was George Rogers Clark's retirement home.
William Clark (Lewis and Clark) was George's younger brother.
Thomas Jefferson's first choice for the Corps of Discovery was
big brother George.
Locust Grove plantation where presidents James Monroe, Andrew Jackson,
and Zachary Taylor visited George Rogers Clark.
Women's work in the summer kitchen.
Men's working the carpentry shop.
Further south of Louisville is the world's largest mapped cave system.
At the beginning of this year, the mapping of the 400th mile
was finished. They are not through yet.
We stayed in the Park's campground.
Waiting for our tour.
We took a nice hike to see the Styx river emerge from the cave system.
If you try, you can see Judy on the ledge above the cave.
Standard pose.
Sliding down the historical entrance to the world's largest cave.
Like many National Parks, a rail line was built to bring tourists.
Judy learns the history.
Alabama bound.
