August 3, Wellsboro PA to Kenton OH to Bellbrook OH

Up early and Betty baked us homemade blueberry muffins with the blueberries we picked yesterday.  Can’t get fresher that that!

Then the drive is on.  Not too far into our trek, we stopped at one of Dick’s favorite shopping places:  The Woolrich Factory Outlet store.  We love their fabulous warm and lovely clothes.  Did some nice shopping including buying one of their classic wool blankets.  Ready to cuddle up on the freezing California nights.

Then it was driving-on through Pennsylvania, and into Ohio.  As we went west, it got driver and drier.  Sad to see so much corn just drying up in the fields.

Today was Patti’s parents 55^th wedding anniversary, so she was glad for a phone call with them.  They are still happy and getting along after all those years.  Hoorah for happy marriages.

Patti was also realizing that on this trip she has now completed having gone to the last of the 50 states. Dick completed his a couple of years ago with Alaska and Oregon.  We both really value travel, and know that this country is so filled in every corner with beauty, history and really nice people.  A nice additional landmark to note.

We were able to arrive at our friend, Toni’s for a catch up visit and pizza.  This past February we had first met her in person at her wedding to one of Dick’s very best friends, Chuck.  Sadly, Chuck had died of liver cancer just two months later.  We had talked with her many times during those months.  We had again seen her at Chuck’s memorial service.  We had made the trip to Ohio for these ceremonies.  It was a treat to have time with this dear new friend and talk about how much we all miss Chuck.

After not nearly long enough, we had to hop in the care and travel southward.  We drove through the town of Urbana and saw the sign for the Johnny Appleseed Center and Museum.  Being who we are, we had to follow the signs.  Sure enough, on the college campus there was the museum, not open but we were able to look up a little info.  We knew that Johnny went through this area, because on Dick’s grandparent’s farm, there were apple trees that were said to have come from him.  Although we didn’t get to go in, we did see a buck deer eating apples that had fallen from the tree.  They seemed to be delicious, because he wasn’t going to stop eating just because we drove up in our car.

Then, around the bend we saw more deer, including five little fawns, and two mamas.  They posed and ate and we enjoyed the view.

It was getting late in the day.  One benefit from driving at this time is to see sunsets.  The blazing sun setting this day was so beautiful.

We arrive at Dick’s brother, John’s house, where he and his wife Sajona warmly greeted us.  Time for catching up on all of the news and the travels.  We also got the chance, finally to catch some more Olympics.  Going on a mega cross-country trip really cuts down on your TV watching! Fun to cheer on America!

Finally, lights out with no time that we HAD to get up in the morning.  Yha!