The wrpping made the 2200 mile trip just fine.

Stars & Stripes First camp grounds we stopped at in Washington.

Rest stop along the way back to Seattle.

A visit at the Boldt's

Roger in his garden. He has more than 350 types of Dahlias. We were visiting Dave and JoAnn Boldt at their home town of Faribault MN. We stopped by for a visit and tour of their fair town. JoAnn made us a wonderful lunch at their house.

Car repair in Indiana

Okay you can not see the new long block they put it but it is there.

We have been in Indiana for a little longer than planned. The reason is the water pump went out in our car while I was driving back to my father-in-law’s house with him in the car. It was a hot day so I drove the car to some shade so he could wait in a little more comfort on a 90 degree day. It took 2 ½ hours for the tow truck. It was a Friday so the dealer could not look at it before Monday. When they looked at it they found out that number one cylinder had no compression. So they said it needs a new motor. I asked about my warrantee. It was up at 70,000 miles I have a little over 72,000 miles. I asked it they could contact Chrysler and see if they could help out. A new rebuilt motor form Chrysler was going to be over $6k. The shop man came back and said that Chrysler would kick in $1.500. Not much but what could I do. They said the motor would be in 2 day. It took 5 and when it came in it was the wrong one. The crate had the right part number on it but it had the wrong connections. So after few more days of not getting any good information on the phone I went down and tried to rattle some cages. It must have worked because 2 days later they had the car ready for pick up.

I wend down thinking it was going to have a bill for over $5k. When I got there the bill was for $1,678. It turns out that Chrysler had agreed to replace the motor for $1,500, not kick in $1,500. The extra over the $1,500 was for a water pump and odes and ends. What a way to make a $1,678 repair bill feel small. I am very glad to have that behind us. We now have only a few things left to do around the house and then we can pack up and head back to the Northwest……

Jayden Close up

Still in Indiana... Our car needs some big time fixing

Our plan was to be in Indiana for two weeks. We arrived here on June 6 and now it is July 15th. .. It looks like we may get out of here on July 20th.

Sammy sends us video up dates of Jayden..

This is one Sammy calls speed racer.

Cake and champagne at John's house

Pat & Dick’s 50th anniversary dinner out.

Pat & Dick’s 50th anniversary.

Pat is Jo’s sister. They came up to Indiana from Florida for a couple of weeks to pick up some of their things at John’s house

Jayden

Jayden has thrush medicine in her mouth. That is why the purple tongue.

Jayden keeps getting bigger

In her red white and Blue for the 4th

Before picture

This is the best I can do on a before picture. I highlighted were some of the cracks were. It is now much brighter in the room because in the past they had very heavy curtain which they had always kept closed. John likes them much better open.

John Verhoeven house. My Father-in-law

This is the living room. Should have taken before and after pictures. This place was in bad shape. He had had a leak and it caused some very large crack in the plaster. The biggest was about 3 foot long with a gap of a ½ an inch at the widest and a protrusion of about 3/8. That took a lot of patching. To paint, every thing had to be taken out of the room in to other rooms that were already full of furniture. Well any we think it look a lot better.

Norma, Jon Telfer and John VerHoeven

Dinner at Lorretta's on her farm near Reynolds IN

Norma Telfer My oldest sister

Dan Pettet (Norma Telfer son)

We all met and Lorretta's house for what she calls dinner. the noon meal