Great Cats of Indiana.

This is one of the pics from Great Cats of Indiana. This tiger was so gentle. He was being petted and played with by his handler, and loving every minute of it. The sign over Timmy's shoulder says, "Beware of Cat!" We thought that was pretty funny.

Indiana.

Since IL, we have been hanging out in Indiana. We spent a week in Monticello, IN where we visited a large cat sanctuary called Great Cats of Indiana. They have rescued over 50 large animals (mostly tigers and lions) who would have been killed otherwise. It was so touching to hear all of the stories and how they came to be rescued. This facility was part of a series called Growing UP on Animal Planet. On Growing up Tiger they had some tiger cubs that needed to be relocated. The cubs were born in Indiana and moved to TX. This place does really great work.

Now we are in Clinton, IN. Pretty much the middle of nowhere. It is quite a small town. It is peaceful though. The family has been doing a lot of fishing, and the kids are enjoying the pool and a billiards table.

We will be leaving here soon for Ohio. We will be visiting some friends there and Cedar Point. The kids are looking forward to that.

Leisure Lake Campground.

After Canada, we went to Joliet, IL. Our good friends, and fellow full-time RVers, the Shermans had been asking us to visit their campground for a while. We finally found ourselves close enough to their park and we wanted to see them as we had not seen them in several months. We enjoyed 2 weeks relaxing, fishing, eating out, and enjoying our friends. The park had several activities for the kids as we found ourselves there over the 4th of July weekend.

Kesley won a fishing contest and a cash prize, Tim came in 2nd. It seems the lake there was overrun by Bluegills and they enlisted the help of the children to remove them. So around 25 kids fished for 2 hours to see how many Bluegills they could catch. The fish were all relocated to a nearby river. Kelsey caught 24 fish and Tim was right behind her with 23. Altogether, 170 fish were removed from the lake.

It was a very nice visit and we enjoyed spending time there. We will definitely be visiting again.

Niagara Falls.

With some time to travel for pleasure, we agreed to meet Mom and Mike in Niagara Falls for a week. We drove from GA to.....Chattanooga. Not too far, but the truck decided to be disagreeable and not go any further. We limped along the side of the highway to a campground just 6 miles away (we were very thankful that it was there). Also in our favor was the fact that there was a Volvo repair facility about 10 miles from the campground. We felt very fortunate to be in such a good location. There are much worse places to be broken down. It turned out that the transmission was not shifting properly and we needed a part. So, $800 and 2 days later we continued on our trek north actually arriving in Niagara Falls on time. It was a good thing we left ourselves plenty of time to get there. Instead of a couple of short driving days we had 1 long one.

We were happy to arrive in Canada, until we reached customs. Now, we expected to be searched and asked questions, but we felt violated. We sat on the side of the inspection area for about 1/2 hour while they searched the truck and RV with a very fine-toothed comb.

We were finally sent on our way and found our camp ground easily. Mom and Mike had made it there before us, so we got set up and met them at their hotel. We had a very nice week in Canada. The falls were magnificent and time with Mom and Mike is always nice. Niagara Falls is a very touristy place and we spent a lot there, but a good time was had by all.

Update.

I just realized that I haven't posted here since May. A lot has happened since then.

We left Miami and returned to GA to get ready for our next event. We had about a week or so before we had to be on the road again.
Next we were off to Memphis, TN for the Stanford St. Jude Championship at the TPC Southwind. It was nice because it was much more laid back than our previous event. We were able to work for a week, then relax for a week, then take everything down in a couple of days.

We had some time to see a few things in Memphis. We visited the Peabody Hotel and saw the famous ducks, we took a trolley ride around Memphis, and visited the Pink Palace. We also walked a bit on Beale Street and visited Peabody Place (a mall). We enjoyed some famous Memphis BBQ and did plenty of shopping.

Upon completion of this event we went back to GA and unloaded trailers and cleaned up the shop. This will be our last event for a while, and for the first time on several years, we have the whole summer off. Our next event isn't until December.