Hi all. This blog is usually about Pat And Carolyn on the road, but we are not now on the road. But we do have plans. That's what this update is about.
Coming up soon at the end of August we are going to two RV Rallies in Indiana. The first one is called "The Gypsy Gathering". It starts on Aug 30 through to Sept. 3 and takes place in the Elkhart Campground, in strangely enough, Elkhart Indiana. This Rally is put on by Nick and Terry Russell. They are publishers of a RVing Newspaper called the Gypsy Journal. In case you want to know more I've included some links. http://gypsyjournal.net/about_the_gypsy_journal.htm
In case you don't know, an RV rally is a gathering of RV'ers and wanna be RV'ers. They attend classes on RVing as well as crafts see shows and just generally hang out together. We have been to one Rally a couple of years ago and it turned out to be a lot of fun.
The second Rally is a week later at the Goshen Fairgrounds in Goshen Indiana. (See the pattern developing.) According to the map the two sites are very close together so we don't have a lot of traveling once we're there.
It's put on by a club we belong to called The Escapees. http://www.escapees.com/escapade/2010/ This Rally will be bigger but otherwise much the same as the Gypsy one. It's called an Escapade and it is the 50th rally put on by the Escapee club. It runs until the 17th of Sept. It's also the 100th anniversary of the first RV's ever built and we plan on going to the RV museum which is conveniently in the area. Thia is Amish country as well and we should find that interesting.
We will be rushing home after the Rally because we both have eye appointments on the Monday.
We'll be home for a week then we are off to Ireland. A place I've always wanted to see and since our youngest son is living in Belfast it's perfect timing. Our first week we will be on a bus tour of the southern part of the Republic of Ireland then a train ride from Dublin to Belfast where Jeff and Nicola (Jeff's girlfriend) will meet us. We'll spend the second week touring the northern part of the Island.
Not sure when I'll update the blog again but I should have some stories to tell.
Pat and Carolyn
