Goshen Indiana

We are still waiting our turn at the factory for repair of quite a few write-ups. Our appointment is for November 10th and they have scheduled 1 1/2 weeks for our repairs. We are hoping that they get all of the write-ups taken care of. It is nice here, we are at the Elkhart County Fairground, in Goshen, this is a great campground. Nice people here, but the weather is getting a little cold for us.

This is the heart of Amish country. Very interesting, and fun to see horse and buggies going down the street with all of the traffic. At all of the parking lots they have a place to hitch up the horse and buggy and some are even covered. The first two pictures are taken in the Walmart parking lot in Goshen. They have headlights, taillights and even turn signals on the buggy, and they have to obey all of the same traffic laws a car.

The RV industry employees most of the people in Northern Indiana, most of the RVs are built here in this area. They are having a tough time right now and there have been layoffs and cutbacks in the industry. They have an RV Museum and Hall of Fame in Elkhart and we plan to visit there in the next couple of weeks. While the coach is in the factory, we will have it in the evening and for the night from 3:30 pm until 7:30 am, then we will have to be out of it during the day. We figure we will do a lot of sightseeing every day, just for something to do.

Our plan is to be leaving this area by the end of November and head toward warmer climate. The fall is beautiful here, with the leaves turning colors and all. These are some pictures we took in the area.

Wisconsin Dells

We left Sioux Falls, SD and headed for Indiana for the Mandalay Rally on Oct 6th. We went through Wisconsin, and stopped and spend a couple of days at the Wisconsin Dells. Wow that is quite an experience. A beautiful place and very interesting to learn about how this was formed. We took a two hour boat trip up and down the river.

We got off the boat and walked on a trail through the rocks about a quarter mile, this was amazing. There were water falls and running water under the walkway.

They have trained a dog to jump from one rock to another, and back again. I was not fast enough to catch the dog jumping, but we did see it. Originally a photographer back in the 40's had his teenage son jumping over this, but decided to train a dog to jump, because it was too dangerous for the boy. He jumps from the rock on the right to the mushroom shaped rock on the left (center picture). This is the dog on the right.

We saw some beautiful countryside in Wisconsin and Northern Illinois too.

We are in Indiana now, had a great Rally, met a lot of friendly people, and learned a lot about Mandalay. We did get some repair work done on our coach and of course we still have our appointment at the factory on November 10th. We are staying here in Goshen Indiana at the Elkhart County Fairground for the next month.

Our daughter Kristy lives here in Goshen with her 6 children (ages 3 months to 16 years). We spent the day with them on Saturday. It is good seeing them again, it has been about 3 years. There is lots to see and do here in this area, so the month will so by quickly, sightseeing and visiting with family.