Minimalist?

When we were in town yesterday, both in Spokane and Cheney, I couldn't help but notice all of the Halloween decorations. There are some pretty elaborately decorated houses -- with lots of colored lights and carved pumpkins. When our kids were little, we carved faces in pumpkins and I made lots of costumes for them and later for the grandkids. But, I don't recall ever really doing a great deal of decorating.

Now that we live in a motorhome, I still do very little decorating. Over the years, Granddaughter Claire has sent us a few funky decorations that just stick on the windows. There's this one with several bats for Halloween.

And this year she sent this set of harvest pumpkins --

But those five pumpkins are the extent of our Halloween decorations. When the day passes, they'll go back between their sheets of plastic and into the file folder for another year. I guess I enjoy enjoying other peoples decorating efforts, but am perfectly content to be a minimalist in my own home.

It rained pretty hard again last night. There are a few small puddles on the ground, nothing major.

What a day today for sports. San Francisco won the World Series in a four game sweep and the Bull Riding National Finals event title was won for a third year in a row by the Brazilian Robson Palermo. Asteroid won the World Champion Bull title and Brazilian Silvano Alves became the first back-to-back World Champion in the history of the PBR (Professional Bull Riders).

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Happy Halloween to all those ghosts and goblins out there!

We have not seen any trick-or-treaters here at the Bowling Green Kentucky KOA Kampground. One of the reasons we left the Yarwood Mobile Home Park a day early was because of Halloween.  Forry's been a bit nervous about that park (though we saw no evidence of  vandalism) and really didn't want to borrow trouble by being there for Halloween.

So this morning we took out the garbage (we had our own garbage container furnished by the park) and parked it by the road; drained the gray and black tanks; pulled up the jacks; pulled in the slides; disconnected the water and the power; hitched up the Toad; checked the lights; and headed down the road.  We took I-65 south just as we had a couple of days ago when we went to Mammoth Cave. It's interesting how much more you can see from height of the motor home compared to driving it in the Toad.

We had looked at staying at another RV Park advertised in the Bowling Green Visitor's Guide.  We called Beech Bend Park several times, but always got their answering machine.  Although the message said they would get right back to us, we still haven't heard from them.  We are hesitant to drive to an RV Park that may be closed -- getting turned around could be a real problem!

We saw something neat today that we have not seen anywhere else.  Bowling Green has ALL of their traffic lights on the main drag numbered (1-20).  There is a neat sign by each light saying what number it is.  So when you get directions, you can be told to turn at Stoplight 15, for example.  No need to count lights like when someone tells you to turn at the third light.  And even nicer, the map of Bowling Green has the numbers of the traffic lights on it as well!

On to Michigan

We got a fairly decent start this morning and headed north across the border into Michigan.  We turned east on Highway 12 and headed across the bottom portion of the state.  There were a few four lane sections, but Highway 12 is mostly a very nice two-lane country road --

The Michigan countryside seems to be more wide open then what we have been seeing in Indiana.  There are still lots of fields of corn and soybeans and we did see a few combines --

We drove through several small towns, all of them with Halloween decorations and pumpkins.  I got a kick out of this "pumpkin pyramid" on a street corner --

The day started out with a light overcast, then morphed into a seriously cloudy day.  After the high eighties of the last few days, it was chilly enough this evening for a sweat-shirt. We thought at first we would go to the KOA in Peterson, but then I found a campground in Tecumseh that had a 50% Camp Club discount.

After several miles of narrowing country roads, we found Indian Creek Campground and Conference Center.  I had tried to call earlier, but had gotten an answering machine.  When we drove in, there was a "closed"  sign on the office door.  That made us a bit nervous as many of the RV parks we have been at are getting ready to close for the season.  But, even as I got out of Auntie Violet to go read the sign on the door, a lady drove up in a white pick-up and opened the office door!  She said that she had been over at her fifth-wheel and hadn't seen us coming up the lane.