Oct 5
Early start today. I had to set the alarm last night in
order to get up at 3 AM to get Pablo to the airport. I then came back to Mom’s
where I hung out over breakfast long enough for the worst of the traffic to die
down before heading back south to continue my tripus interuptus.
Stopped and used the free dump facility
at Cabela’s at Dundee MI to empty/fill the tanks, first time this trip, then on
south to pick up US50 at Cincinnati. I used IH275 to go around to the west side
of the city and picked up US50 near Lawrenceburg then promptly left it again
for US56 which sticks pretty close to the Ohio River. I couldn’t help but look
at the levies towering over my head with some distrust, remembering a trip in
2011 where I had to detour through Missouri and Oklahoma as the Mississippi
flooded further south and levies were blown up since it was determined that
flooding family farms was preferable to flooding cities that had been carelessly
built in the natural flood plain.
True to the theme of this trip, I had
to work my way through a street carnival right in the middle of Aurora to
continue on my way. Clear of all that I went and made a wrong turn into one of
those campgrounds that’s not really a traveler’s stop so much as a
temporary-permanent neighborhood, before finally getting to where I was headed.
I’m staying the night at a
campground right on the Ohio river just east of a town with the cool name of Rising
Sun Indiana. The campground is having a Halloween celebration this weekend (Of
course!) and many of the campsites are decorated for the festivities.
Fortunately, since I have very little candy with me, I’m getting out of here
before the official festivities start on tomorrow!
The campground is in two sections, almost like two separate campgrounds sharing one office, with one up by the road on higher ground and the other about a quarter mile away right down on the banks of the river where I'm sure things can get a little wet in the spring. I'm in the river unit and it's relatively peaceful down here. I can feel myself starting to decompress as I walk the bank.
The campground is in two sections, almost like two separate campgrounds sharing one office, with one up by the road on higher ground and the other about a quarter mile away right down on the banks of the river where I'm sure things can get a little wet in the spring. I'm in the river unit and it's relatively peaceful down here. I can feel myself starting to decompress as I walk the bank.
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