After much difficulty I think I have finally resolved the big issues with blogging. I needed to download the blogger app. Hopefully things will go smoothly from this point. We are still traveling to our first real destination of Mount Rushmore and the Bad Lands. On Tues. the views of the green mountains and valleys in Pennsylvania were beautiful. For any of you who know of my interest in farms and desire to live on a farm will know that I got to see many lovely barns, silos, and fields. Yesterday was not as interesting. We traveled through Ohio and Indiana. I will just say flat. Many cornfields and soy bean crops were all that we could see. One interesting aspect of these fields was the irrigation systems. They are long spans of pipes on wheels. They are rolled through the fields by robotic control and spray the fields with water. Crops looked very dry and it is evident for the most part the growing season is coming to an end.
Last night we were in South Bend. Indiana. Dick and Viv took me to the Notre Dame campus where their son Craig received his Phd. I saw the golden dome, touchdown Jesus and the stadium. It is an impressive campus, but the architecture is very different from the colleges in the East. It is clearly late 1800's architectural style and constructed of mostly yellow or sand colored brick.
Viv is an intrepid chauffeur. She has driven both days. I sit in the co-pilot seat and Dick is in the back with his headphones and computer. We have fallen into an easy routine with stopping for lunch and gas. We go out to dinner and then return to our place of lodging to rest up for the next day's adventure.
More to come,
Stephanie
Touchdown Jesus
As we prepare to leave Shrewsbury
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