Head 'em up. . . move 'em out. . . rollin', rollin', rollin'

We've managed to round up 350 horses and tomorrow they will push us out of here. We are in Goshen and have been micro-managing our apartments for the week. Everything is going well, so we are off tomorrow. Heading for Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to get our driver's licenses renewed and also get our new car/RV tags.

I thought I had posted before about the Moody Blues concert, but I see that I did not. When we arrived in northern Indiana, we stayed at the Kosciusko County Fairgrounds because that is closer to where Mom and Dad and my sister and her husband live. We got there Saturday and did take some time to go visit the family. Mom and Dad volunteered to dog-sit for Neal. Since Neal is handicapped, he takes extra care and Mom and Dad feel comfortable providing that for him. He really doesn't require much, but he cannot go up and down stairs to go out.

Sunday evening we took Neal to Mom's. We took his little "hut" for him and before we even left to go to the concert, he was in it and snoozing away. Nita and Jim, my sister and her husband drove and we also took Doug and Cindy, some friends of theirs. We drove to Ft. Wayne and had dinner at Bandito's which was a very good Mexican restaurant. We arrived about 20 minutes before the concert was to start at 7:30. The Moody Blues appeared a few minutes late, but they were very good and we were sufficiently entertained until 10 p.m. They took one 20 minute break and came back for a couple encores. We really did enjoy them and are glad we were able to see them.

Afterwards, we drove back to my sister's and we picked a sleeping Neal up at Mom and Dad's. He did well for them and they didn't have any complaints. He seemed very comfortable with them. On Monday we drove on up to the storage condo in Goshen.

We've just been trying to tie up some loose ends here and get a few things done that are on our list. We will be gone for a month and then be back here for a month, so it isn't a lot of time to get things done. We just try to work when we can.

This trip will start in South Dakota. The plan is to go north from there into North Dakota, then travel east through Minnesota and Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan along the northern route and then come back across the Mackinac Bridge and back to the Elkhart Campground by August 8. We have two rallies here then, so we will be busy.

Till next time. . .

Dale