Life on the Road – Week One!

The day we’ve been planning and preparing for, finally arrived. Tom’s last day of work was Friday, the first of May. We spent the weekend with the Central Indiana Unit of the WBCCI (Airstream Owners) club, at Brown County State Park near Nashville Indiana. We had set up camp Thursday evening; Tom commuted from camp to work on Friday. When he returned to the camp Friday evening, all of the Airstreamers lined the road to our site, cheering and congratulating him. What a nice way to start the weekend!   Brown County State Park is one of our favorite Indiana parks; this weekend the dogwoods and redbuds were still in bloom, and it was Morel festival weekend. Some visitors were finding the mushrooms, but most in our group were not very lucky.

After a wonderful weekend with our central Indiana Airtream friends, we went to Jackson Center Ohio, for a couple of days. Airstream’s factory and service center, often called the “Mother Ship” are located there. We had a short list of some service items and a safety check, Silver’Rita was pronounce road-ready! While Rita was getting checked out, we took the short drive to Dayton and visited the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. We have visited twice now, and it will take a few more visits before we will have seen it all. It is a free attraction and well worth the time. If you go, be sure to sign up for the Presidential Aircraft tour. It is also free, but you must sign up – it involves a bus ride to a secure area of the base.

From Jackson Center, we travelled to Virginia to meet up with son Brian and his sweetheart Ashley and to visit with our friends, the Heuers who graciously allowed us to park at their cabin in the mountains near the Blue Ridge Parkway. While there, we visited several wineries and breweries, enjoyed good food, and soaked up the peace and quiet. We had no cell phone service, no TV or radio, for four days! We all shared our plans for the summer, and took notes so that we might plan opportunities to cross paths again sooner rather than later. It was wonderful!