Back to Ontario - Clinton ON tonight

We had a very pleasant last-day drive home, a cool beautiful fall day. 

A couple of days ago we had lunch at a Cracker Barrel (and leftovers for lunch yesterday). In their store we saw something for a very sweet tooth:

Note there are 2 cups in the pack, total 1 lb!!

Today we stopped by our new place in Bayfield Mews. It's coming along, but slowly. 

Garage door and front window are in, so more-or-less weather-tight now

The back patio area is prepared for the concrete slab, about 12x18 feet

Inside is drywalled but not painted

After a stop for a construction update and mail in Bayfield, we carried on to Clinton where we'll be moochdocking at some friends tonight.

We had a good night last night in yet another Walmart. We decided to find one off the highway, as the last couple have been pretty noisy. One in Angola IN fit the bill, and was a good stop.

Angola is a bit north of Auburn IN, which has been a common stop with us. The Angola Walmart is about 3 miles off the highway though, and no highway noise at all. Maybe because it's so far off the highway, there were no big-rig trucks there, just us and one other camper. You'd still have to stop at Auburn or Lansing for the Cracker Barrel though. 😀

We stuck with I69 from Angola to the Port Huron MI border crossing. Although rough in places, I69 is improved from earlier years, and a straight-forward drive. The border crossing was likely the easiest we've ever had. He only asked one question, "how long were we in the US?". After a few seconds perusing his computer, he waved us on in to Canada.
 
Today's route:

Sikeston MO to Angola IN

Another long driving day. It was a pretty day, and lots of tree colours along the way. We didn't stop for pictures today though, we were trying to get north of Ft Wayne to make our last day to home an easy one. See recent posts from The Furry Gnome or The Bayfield Bunch for some great fall colour pictures.

Getting through Indianapolis from I70 eastbound to I69 northbound was an absolute nightmare today! Some recent construction, it didn't seem recent enough to confuse the GPS, but we finally had to turn it off, it was totally lost and confusing us even more. It was about 3pm, and lots of fast traffic didn't help us at all. We did get through ok though in the end. Maybe we should have taken 465?

We'll try hard to not go through Indianapolis again, going or coming. One alternative we've done a time or two is to take US24 west from Ft Wayne, then find a good road to head south to I70 (like US 41), or even take US24 through to I57.


Here's today's map:

Another day spent close to "home"

Just relaxing in the shade this afternoon. It is 27 degrees C and sunny with a light breeze. Can't get much better than that.

How many morning quail do you see?

 

This morning we went in to soak at the La Paloma hot springs in an old part of Truth or Consequences. It is $7 each for a half hour soak. This is the third or fourth time we've done this over the years, and we have never got past 20 or 25 minutes before we feel light headed, mellowed out and (more) wrinkled. It is all good though!

Afterwards we went and got some more apples at Walmart, our second bag of a kind called Sweet Tango.  Just so crisp and sweet, we actually like them better than Honeycrisp.  

Under the solar-panel canopy at Walmart. The birds like it too.

 
Treated ourselves to a very late breakfast out from the Denny's seniors menu and hung around the campsite the rest of the day.

Campsite wildlife

A lovely afternoon at our site

Tomorrow we're heading to another state park, Rockhound, just southeast of Deming. We may not get in there as the weekends especially are quite busy with campers this time of year down this way, and we can understand why.  

Bayfield progress, and plans for October

We went to Bayfield again today to see the progress at the Bayfield Mews , first stopping at Anna Mae's restaurant for a good breakfast. We met with the contractor again and saw good progress inside and out. The biggest step on the outside is that bricking has started.

 

Lots of bricks waiting for install

Efficient looking bricklayers, doing a fine job

 

Garage doors starting to be installed (not ours yet)

Inside there is lots of activity. Insulation and drywalling should be done over the next 2 weeks. 
 
We're also preparing to head into the US next week, leaving Oct 1. We're heading for New Mexico or thereabouts, expecting to be gone for a month. The place should look quite different by then!