We started our long awaited trip to the western states on Friday the 11th. Our first stop was in Wabash, Indiana to attend the wedding of our niece Mallory Baer and her now husband Bobby Lynn. We had a great time at the wedding and got to see some of our relatives. We also want to thank Patty(Marcia's sister) and Rex Baer for their great hospitality. They insisted we park our RV at their house while we were visiting. When we arrived on Friday evening they had a campfire going with all of the fixings for a cookout for us. They have a lovely home and we thoroughly enjoyed our time staying with them.
Here is the happy couple dancing at their reception.
Here are Brian, Jennifer, Alyssa, Cole and Quinn in downtown Roann before the wedding. We were glad to see all of them and spend some time together.
We left Sunday morning and continued on westward. We crossed central Indiana, central Illinois and southern Iowa travelling through some of the best farmland in the world. We had a long day and arrived at a Rathbun Lake Corps of Engineering's campground late in the afternoon. It was nice and we were about the only ones in that particular campground. I walked down to the lake at sunset and got this shot.
We left there and drove most of the day across the rolling hills of southern Iowa to arrive at Nebraska City, Nebraska. We are staying in a nice campground on the edge of the city. Today we went to the Arbor Day Farm. We have belonged to the Arbor Day Foundation for several years and have wanted to visit their home and the grounds. Here is the entrance to the main exhibits. We walked a trail that wound around through the wooded grounds with lots of points of interest.
The very helpful lady at the store did a good job taking our picture enjoying the rocking chairs on the porch.
The story of the Arbor Day Foundation is very interesting. J. Sterling Morton was a Nebraska statesman very interested in planting trees in Nebraska. On ground that he owned, he laid out a beautiful estate planting many varieties of trees. He was responsible for making Arbor Day an official national day of planting trees. On the first Arbor Day over a million trees were planted in Nebraska. His farm was later the home of the Arbor Day Foundation which still calls this beautiful farm it's home. Here is a picture of Morton Mansion.
While touring the grounds of the Morton estate we came across this tree hugging moose. How Moosey managed to get into that tree is a true mystery.
We are heading towards the Black Hills tomorrow.
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