Another Harvest Hosts Winery

September 12, 2012
Firelands Winery
Harvest Hosts
Sandusky, Ohio

A very pleasant long 249 mile drive today.  We stayed off the toll roads so at times it was a little slower, but saw some beautiful country.

I always like to get flag pictures, 

usually we are driving so many are too blurry to post.  

There were three flags in a row but only got two

A cute little town along US Hwy 20.  already forgot the name.

You don't get these cute places on the toll roads

Crossing the Sandusky Bay. to the left of us is Lake Erie but the hwy divider is too tall to see it.

Almost looks like my picture when we were going across the Sunrise Bridge into Tampa, FL

Unfortunately we had to drive right by this nuclear plant a little west of Sandusky

The Streamer is still following us

We finally get to our destination, just in time for a little sampling.  

This winery is the largest in Ohio and produces about 70,000 cases a year. 

We have a really nice place to spend the night.

We are going to have cards made and I think this is the picture we will use on them but I might take another picture when I get my new glasses, which have already been mailed to Joe's sister in Maryland and we will be there on the 22nd.

 This is a bit blurry but I wanted to show how the beans are drying up.  They go from green to golden to a light gray and all the leaves fall off.  I guess they will be harvesting them soon.  Now and then we see the corn being harvested.

The actual bean pods

Have a blessed day and thanks for stopping by

Nancy

A few days at Dayton

May 23 - May 29
Wright Paterson AFB
Dayton, Ohio

Tomorrow we will be leaving for Jackson Center, Ohio, a whopping 56 miles north of here  It's been really hot here for the last five days, today 96', tomorrow they expect it to be in the 80's then down to the 70's  which is great because we are going back up to Jackson Center to the Alumapalooza Rally with only enough electric to keep the batteries charged, about 3 amps. With our two Fantastic Fans and the 12 volt Breeze we we should be just fine.

Our main reason of coming to Dayton was so I could go to the correct lab for a blood draw.  Before we left home last October my doctor gave me several lab slips for the upcoming 10 months.  I use LabCorp and they are throughout the US I just have to look them up online.

While here we went to the National Museum of the USAF.  The museum takes about three days to go through, luckily it's open every day and it's free.  The museum starts with the beginning of flight, then WW I, WWII, Korea, Southeast Asia and then present day all in six hangers connected together. Joe saw several of the aircraft that he had work on or flew when he was in the Air Force.   They also have an IMAX, they were showing Hubble, Fighter Pilot and Air Racers.  We had already seen Hubble a few months ago, today we saw Fighter Pilot.  I would highly recommend both of these IMAX films.
We have also been to the Pima Air Museum in Tuscon, AZ, the Boeing Air Museum in Seattle, Cape Canaveral and each one is exceptionally well presented and worth a visit.

My Gypsy Girl (GPS) has not been doing well for about 6 months or so, I have been just babying her along, well I finally broke down and got a new one, taking advantage of the Memorial Day Sales at Best Buy.  I have her ready to go tomorrow when we leave.  It will be nice to have one that doesn't turn off when we go over a bump.

Well that's about it, not too much going on for the last several days but we did get caught up on laundry and washed the truck and trailer, they sure needed it.

Safe travels to all

Nancy and Joe

Jackson Center, Ohio

May 20, 2011

The Springtime in Kentucky Caravan is over and everyone has gone about their separate ways, well almost everyone.  We traveled with Jim and Dixie, and also ran into Byron and Cathy along the way at a rest stop, we all had a nice lunch break.  Then, on north to Jackson Center Ohio to the Airstream plant, they have full hook ups and we had an appointment to get the wheel bearings re-packed and a couple other minor repairs on Tuesday, Jim and Dixie had an appointment on Monday, Byron and Cathy headed toward Detroit to visit family.  Soon after we arrived at Jackson Center another couple that was on our caravan Barry and Sue arrived.

Joe and I have never been here at the Airstream plant so we took the tour.  Very informative, no pictures allowed, we were able to see the entire process of building an Airstream.  If you order one you can come and watch it being made.  The town of Jackson Center has a population of about 1,400.

Inside the waiting room, besides three TVs and comfortable chairs there was free wi-fi, free coffee & cookies, a microwave and popcorn maker; and dog friendly. The repair shop crew all go to lunch at 11:30 and we were allowed to go into our trailer and make our lunch which was convenient.

We ended up staying three nights at Jackson Center, free

That's it, thanks for stopping by

Nancy and Joe