I did not post photos from John's neighborhoods in Des Moines. SO here is one! I loved the habitat houses here. They are my favorites so far!
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| cute huh? |
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| bike riding |
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| historic neigborhoods |
So, John and I had a 3 day +7 hour travel day to Providence. Our first stop was in South Bend Indiana. We actually stayed in another town north of South Bend at the KOA. The KOA was crowded as they were having a GMC RV convention. Who knew? Anyway, the town was fine but few places to walk the pups. We arrived around 6 trying to get in early we had not stopped for a dog walk. The dogs were excited and of course every single camper had a large sized dog. I am not kidding. So...the evening did not start out too well. We found a park on our iphone which really turned out to be a cemetery---so we ended up walking the pups in a parking lot.
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| GMC convention |
We visited South Bend the next morning for our dog walk. The town was much larger then either of us realized. We took the dogs on a walk down by the river. They enjoyed it. We then did a quick drive around Notre Dame. We figured we had to see the campus!
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| dog walk in south bend |
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| James river south bend |
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| Notre Dame Stadium |
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| John call's this Touch Down Jesus...:) |
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| Notre Dame Campus |
The next day was our longest travel day to Bellafonte. It also was the most expensive toll road wise! We paid close to 40 dollars in Ohio and Indiana. Whew...
Driving in the car for days on end makes you goofy. John and I did several things to entertain ourselves...we listened to
Follow Me a book by David Plat on CD, listened to Sports radio, listened to Entertainment radio (do you know--- Kanye and Kim Kardashian's baby's name---we do--it's North--North West---thanks Entertainment Weekly radio for all of your scintillating information!), sang songs (me mostly- silly camp songs...and generally later at night...), self imposed trivia looking up answers on our iphones :), and our favorite the map game. This fun game entails a road atlas (check), knowledge about state capitals (it has been awhile since 4th grade geography --- but we did pretty well), guesses on population sizes and ranking and land area and ranking (I am terrible at numbers so my guesses at first were ridiculous!---John is much better at this!), and the state motto (I nailed this!). Anyway, fun times. Really...you should try it...:)
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| Being silly and laughing in the car... |
We arrived in Providence the next day, June 23. The dogs were so excited to be there! We walked them around our campsite Holiday Acres and knew we were going to have to find a park nearby. Holiday Acres was quite the experience! It was an old summer camp with big play fields, a play ground, a lake (that John and I swam in for 5 minutes one day--a little icky), a rec hall, basketball courts etc..and a bumpy dirt road. There were a lot of permanent and seasonal campers. So the front yard areas of the campsites were elaborate with screened in porches, figurines, and wooden signs that had their names. I should have gotten pictures!
C&J + happy to be in Rhode Island pups!
Lessons Learned
1. Don't push through to a campsite to make a certain time because dogs will be crazy...
2. Parks are not always "parks" in fact they could be cemeteries...
3. A road atlas is totally necessary for any long road trip --- seriously---
4. If the campsite is not a KOA you never know what you will get....
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