Exiting Indiana

Our northbound route.

Last luncheon with the Dohoney side of the family.

John L., Susie, Catherine, and Lauren on the left.

Douglas, Joann, Jack on the right.

Bill, Judy on the left and Paul on the right.

Meeting Finlay, our newest great nephew.

Finlay and his mom, Sarah. 

 We're sorry we missed dad

(Adam Dohoney) during the visit.

Further north we visited Monte, Melissa, (Dennis's sister),

Hanna and John (niece and nephew)

Heinze Reunion Georgetown, Indiana

The Heinze reunion just wrapped up with

about 50 relatives in attendance.

The food was terrific, the venue was beautiful,

and the company was too.

Here are a few mostly un-captioned pictures.

Patiently waiting for the buffet table to be ready.

Preparing the deserts.

Some more waiting with patience.

Some not.

Yum!

Caught cleaning in the kitchen, Thanks! 

Northward to Indiana reunion-Tennessee

Since we travel between Florida and Indiana often,

it is difficult to find new experiences. 

Some of these are, some are not, but all were worth it.

Our son, Brian, his girlfriend Darrell, (center)

and our niece Susan Popp. (visiting Hoosiers)

  They are enjoying the "real" Florida at the Wacissa River headwaters.

Susan's son, Isaac must have gone off the rope swing into the

70 degree spring water over 200 times. 

We were there for about 5 hours and he

only came up to have a little watermelon!

The stops through Tennessee.

We have visited the Georgia part of Chickamauga & Chattanooga NMP

and now the Tennessee portion. 

https://www.nps.gov/chch/index.htm

The stroll on Look Out mountain included terrific views

from the inside of the clouds but not of the valley below.

Dedicated in 2015, Manhattan Project NHS,

is an historic look at the building 

of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.

  It also reminds us of the casualties and destruction they caused.  https://www.nps.gov/mapr/index.htm

 

We toured a flat top house. 

These were constructed at Oak Ridge (the secret city) 

as it grew into a large city for the secretive workers.

                                                                          

Our very first RV trip in our new Bounder motor home

included a stop here in 2002. 

I think that we even had the same camp site.

https://www.nps.gov/cuga/index.htm

Atop the mountain beside "the gap" at Pinnacle Point

affords nice views and a cool breeze just before a storm rolls through.

Pinnacle Point

Heading over the gap. 

In the 1930's the highway was built right over the gap.

There was a requirement to restore the gap

when an alternate route was built.

In 1996 a tunnel was constructed and in 2002 restoration began. 

Here are the results.

We were a little sore after a short hike up to Skylight cave

because our recent inactivity.

Indiana and reunion bound.