Trip To The Museum

The day started with a slight breeze and temperatures warmer than the previous two or three nights.  I was up early as I never really sleep well the day or so prior to departing on a trip.  Up at 0515 to make hot water, lemon, ginger and honey.  I started doing that about six months ago and quite enjoy it as I catch up on the weather, overnight emails, a scan of the news headlines and then the NYT Connections and Wordle on line.  My sister and I regularly exchange our results by text with Carol coming out ahead most of the time.  I am too impatient I think on connections and easily fall into the inevitable rabbit hole.  After all that I put on a pot of coffee to slowly perc until Pat smells it and gets up.  That is a standing joke with us and the family as we/she love coffee in the morning, and she wont get out of bed until she can smell it percolating.

By 0715 Pat was up and beginning the checklist of items she performs to ready the coach for a trip.  We have developed a very good checklist of items for all the things we deem important and we both check each other for completion.  Today we had a planned departure of 0800 as it was one of the longest days of this 25 day trip.

We were ‘wheels up’ just before 0800 and travel was pretty good traffic wise the whole day.  The wind was another story with 25 gusting 35 knots of wind quartering into us from the front.  There is still a lot of construction this time of year as the crews are trying to finish up before the cold sets in, with lane closures and slowdowns, but nothing significant.

Today our destination was Bowling Green, Ohio at a Harvest Host location.  It included a run of 433 km (269 mi) with two short rest stops, a customs clearance at the border and arrival in Bowling Green at 1400.

On this trip we decided to stay at a mixture of Harvest Host locations, and RV parks to try and experience a wide range of places.  Today we are at the Wood County Museum. 

It is a fine example of the homes of this type, built in the 1800’s (one in each county in the state) to house the poor, elderly and disabled citizens.  This particular home was built in 1868 and operated as a nursing home until 1920. 

The grounds are very well kept and each building is equipped with a sign to signify its use during the time.  This was a perfect spot for the stop over and we enjoyed the visit.

On our walk around after dinner we came across a tree we had never seen before with fruit at least as large as a grapefruit and probably upwards of thirty or so on the ground with about the same in the tree.  Squirrels had eaten parts of some of the ones on the ground so they are at least edible for them.  I did not try one, but looked it up and it is an Osage Orange fruit.