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SATURDAY MORNING 8/7-21

Av EvaLena Hallgren - 7 augusti 2021 14:30

 I wish people would be honest about their WiFi connections so I could update more often. We do have wifi in the car but it's not fast enough to upload pictures, so now we're in a good old Mc Donalds.

According to Mom, they do have great coffee.

So we left Kalamazoo and headed for Lake Michigan and to a town called Holland.

   

It's a very cute little town with lots of gorgeous planters and statues

   


This flower is growing everywhere up here, we don't know what it is because even though they look like hydrangeas they aren't. Mom thinks they smell like pee??? but they sure are gorgeous to look at

 


If the shoe fits I sits


 


Continuing south along Lake Michigan we found a great little town named South Haven where we took a long walk along a pier.

   


This was a typical tourist town with all the Tshirt and nick nack shops. There was a great specialty shop for me and Mom was tempted to buy this flag because it almost looked like me. But after a second thought, she didn't because she always considered these flags a tad tacky.


 


We watched the boaters for a while, and they did have a cruise on the lake that would have let me go along, but Mom opted against it  since what more is there to see from the water............

   


Still a great place that we may visit again.

 


Continuing south we stopped to look at the dunes and I got an icecream

 


 

Now we're pretty close to Chicago but thankfully for me, Mom is not interested in the big cities. She says they're all the same..........tall buildings and a lot of noise.

We spent a night at Walmart parking next to this guy

 

Somewhere here Mom got a hold of a brochure that was showing garden quilting with flowers exhibit...............and THAT was right up her alley it's a must-see, so off we went.

What a huge disappointment ..................this was it????

 


We did have plans to stop in to visit Pete Buttigieg in South Bend but he was probably too busy to meet so we we kept going to a campsite to spend the night.

Here we met this couple that camped almost like we do

 


We are in Indiana now


 



The lady at this camp was great and advised us to visit this Amish town Shipshewana and that was quite interesting. It was close to the amp soi we arrived very early. 

   
Mom has heard a rumor about the Amish and puppy mills and the first thing we see and hear is puppies barking.

I wasn't very interested but of course, Mom had to pet and reach into the pen where 10 pups jumped up and scratched her arm which is now bloody.  See, I've never done that.................... let us get out of here OK

Mom wanted to take them all, but NO No no 

   


This town is very interesting (to Mom) I don't like the poop all over ( My predecessor Buttons loved it he ate it like oatmeal) 

  

We spent a lot of time here because Mom was looking for something authentic Amish, but like everywhere else most of the stuff was the same made in China nicknacks.

    

She looked long and hard on this shirt, but I put my paw  down again and said no


 


The Amish community are famous for their quilts so there was a lot of fabric shops and believe it or not Mom resisted...........I'm so proud of her. She really tried to get the pattern for this quilt, but the lady said it was for classes only.

 


This quilt Mom already made but in different colors

 


A sweet town with the most gorgeous flower arrangments everywhere, and this was Moms favorite


   


This lady didn't want her picture taken

 



As hard as we looked we couldn't find anything authentic Amish made so when Mom saw all the buggies on a row we stopped there. It was a supermarket

   


Mom went inside to look and everything was sold in bulk .............huge bags of stuff

 


This girl is carefully stocking the shelves with???

 



And ladies are packing the groceries in their buggies 

A very interesting town and Mom was so impressed with the horses that held their heads high and seemed so proud trotting along. 

As a matter of fact, Mom stopped several times on the road to look at them trotting by seemingly tireless

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   At another town close by they seemed to want to copy the Amish style, but it was just fancy and expensive

 


There was a car show there and a lot of gorgeous cars, but after the Ford museum, we were a little car tired but did do a quick walk around.

           

Leaving this town heading south we pass a lot of cornfields and at times Mom thinks the GPS got sick because some of these roads can possibly be on any map? 

We followed the Lincoln Historic byway for a while 

 



And stopped in this town filled with murals on almost every wall. (guess these towns try hard to appeal to tourists like us)


   


I know somebody that would really like this on their roof

 


We're still in Indiana in a town called Muncie and we're not far from Indianapolis...............I know it's a big city, but I think Mom may have a plan here.


This little girl made Mom smile

 


It's almost 10 am so we're back on the road shortly, all is well


 


 

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