Forest City, Iowa 5-16-18

Lindy and Rob at Gramma's house

We made it to Forest City, IA today and we’ll spend the night at The Lodge.  This is a really unusual old place.  We have a room with a kitchen, separate bedroom and a wet bar in the bedroom (Well, it’s actually a powder area but, you know.  Think outside the box, right?).  Our room reminds me of my Gramma’s apartment:  the wall paper is cream colored with white and pink roses all over it.  There is pretty, highly-polished cherry wood furniture, overstuffed chairs around the dining room table and old lamps with pretty shades.  The acreage around the lodge is full of trees, flowers, a lake and benches and tables and expanses of mowed grass adjacent to a golf course.  What a nice place!

View from our room

Golf course as seen from our room

En route, we departed the interstate and took a little red side road for some time.  Spring has sprung in the Midwest.  There are acres of yellow dandelion flowers and of course, dozens of John Deeres preparing the fields for seeding.  The daffodils are springing up and smiling.  Cherry trees are covered with blossoms.  There are acres for miles of beautiful yellow flowers, which I am sure those of you who suffer from hay fever cannot appreciate.  The Midwest is alive with the renewal of Spring and Summer!  What a beautiful drive it is watching the sunny warmth awakening everything from a long Winter sleep!

Today is the last leg of the outbound trip, 150 miles to my brother George and Ray’s home in St. Paul.  We’ll spend the week end with them while we await delivery day at the Winnebago factory.  Stay tuned.  Love from Lindy and Rob