Cook-out

Amanda,Dee and their families came over yesterday for a cook-out. Nancy had a large pot of pintos,fried potatoes,cole slaw and corn bread. I grilled twice as many pork chops then we needed but they were good and everyone had more than enough. We kind of over did it eating because it was so delicious. We later had a strawberry cake for dessert.

Of course the little ones played more than they ate. They had a ball and really enjoyed their selves in the big field of the campground.

We played a game of scrabble later and Nancy won the game.

It was a very nice and good day.

Finally back online

WOW,its been a while since I've posted. The reason is the wifi here is hit and miss and mostly miss and I can't get a cell phone signal so without those I can't post. Well not much to post about anyway. We are still enjoying our grandcildren and great grandchildren very much. Dee and her two children came out and spent the night wednesday. The two like to visit in our motorhome. Oh,Hunter has a new name for his Nanny. Since visiting this time he has been calling her "Old Granny".

This is part of the campground. It is a large spacious campground.

Great Visit

Here Nancy is listening to the grand-daughters talking. We have been visiting them and their families.

Nancy again with the great grand-daughters. You know we think they are the sweetest. We are really enjoying the time that we have with all of them.

Camp Copperhead

We had a very good quite night last night. I had a good wifi connection provided by Buffalo Wing. It is set up by Harbor-Link. They are providing free wifi at Buffalo Wings,some BP stations and are even on the transit bus system in Cinncinnati,Ohio. They have 650 of these in 43 states so far.

The West Virginia State Penitentiary was only a couple of blocks so we drove by and stopped this morning. Of course the Penitentiary closed up in 1995 so we were safe. I've heard of this place all my life and was glad to see it.

What is amazing is the Penitentiary is located right in the residential area. It is a huge structure. I had to stitch 8 photos to get it all in one picture. You can click on it to get a larger picture.

We are here in Camp Copperhead for the next week visiting our granddaugters and their family. We have no cell phone service and limited wifi.

Hey Verizon I found another dead zone.

9:30 am

We are still here at the Walmart. We will leave when Nancy gets ready and I've cleaned some on the motorhome.
We didn't have much sleep last night. They wanted me to park in the back where the trucks park. So with the truck noise. Also they are remodeling inside and we are parked where they are dumping the old shelves and drawers. I think the guys bringing the stuff out last wanted to see who could make the most noise throwing it in the dumpsters. Oh well it was a free place to park,so we can't complain to much.

5:30
Once again we didn't get an early start. Nancy got her hair cut before we really got on the road. We did get started but not really. Well first I went down a road about 8 miles and the road was closed so I had to double back and go another route. Now the next thing I loaded the GPS for a Walmart in Stuebunville,the dag-gone thing took me into a residential area,I ended up in a cul-de-sac. O'boy,I had to unhook the car back the motorhome,then rehook and get the heck out of there. Then looked for another Walmart and it wasn't where the GPS said it was.
Well anyway we are here in Moundsville at a Walmart for the night.
I guess thats life on the road.

Geese to Trucks

I thought I would post this morning since I have a free wifi connection from somewhere here on the FlyingJ parking lot. The title above says it for the last two mornings. When we stayed on the boat launch site at Lake Erie we were woke up by Canadian Geese honking and this morning it was trucks. Well this is a truck stop. Actually on the lake I think one of the geese was having a night long night mare. Every few minutes you could hear the "honk-honk". Still a pretty good nights sleep.

Wall mural in the town of Rock Creek.

Taking in the country side along the way.

Well we didn't go very far today. I just drove extra slow looking at the countryside and enjoying it. We also stopped in the small town of Rock Creek,Ohio to do the laundry,which took up some time.
We are at the Walmart in Salem,Ohio for the night and probably another slow day tomorrow.

Another Day Traveling

After waking up to a great sunrise,we had our breakfast,got ready and on the road again.

We traveled slow and stopped often to walk and look at the different stores along the way. We finally made it to and through Pennsylvania. Then into Ohio where we got our prescriptions filled at a Walmart.

Then it was to a FlyingJ for the night. Not a beautiful place as last night but not bad for a truck stop.

Tomorrow we will continue going south. How far? I don't know,don't ask,just wait and see.

Overnighting at boat launch

We left the campground around noon and drove through the corn fields. Stopped at a roadside market and bought some prune plums. I have never eaten any so naturally I had to try them. I'm glad I bought them,because they are so good and sweet.
We got to a boat launching site on Lake Erie,had our dinner. It was 6:00 pm. The Harbor Master was still on duty so I ask permission to stay the night. He said it would be ok and said it was nice of me to ask him.

The view out the front window was beautiful of the sunset this evening. The time now is 10:15 pm and the temperature is 62°. So we should have a good nights sleep.

Niagara Falls

We spent all day at Niagara Falls today. Here is one of the "Maid of the Mist" boats.

We had a very nice day.

Lockport,New York

We had a good night at the FlyingJ. It rained last night and still raining this morning.

We passed so many grape vineyards going through Pennslyvania and New York. I have never seen so many grapes vineyards. I saw more vineyards today then I've seen previously in all my life.

We stopped for lunch at a boat launch on Lake Erie. The view was breath taking. Awesome baby.
After a long day of driving in the rain we finaly made it to our destination.
We had dinner at Gordie Harper's Restaurant this evening. A very good restaurant.

Tomorrow we will go to see the Niagara Falls.

Saybrook Township,Ohio

After a pretty good night at the FlyingJ in Berkshire.

We left around 10:30am and pulled into the FlyingJ in Saybrook Township around 3:30pm to stay the night so we would have a short drive to our campground that we'll be staying to visit the Niagra Falls area. Its a good thing we got here early because they are having a big going on in the truck parking area. A truck show and some singing on stag. One guy who use to play with "Trick Pony" will be performing and they will be having othe acts. The photo above is on one of the trucks here.

Part of the crowd at 4:30pm and it doesn't start until 7:00pm

Here they are getting the hot dogs and burgers ready. The parking lot is full and the town trolley is bringing people in from other parking lots around town.