North Bend, OH July 3-6, 2013t

As I mentioned in the previous entry, we drove into OHIO and after a few phone calls finally found our campground!   Our GPS did not work, and the road atlas did not give us sufficient info to find it.   It sits on the state line between OH and IN.  

On July 4 we got directions to the Panera's about 11 miles from camp.   We don't know what suburb we were in -- but the food was good, and the road was quite busy and had shopping centers and fast food.  Since it was pouring down rain we opted to stay in the area and so bought a new GPS at Best Buy and walked through Target and Michael's before heading to Chic-fil-A for a late lunch.   Our new GPS guided us back into the vicinity of North Bend (but couldn't find the campground).   Spent the afternoon reading and working on counted cross stitch.   During the evening we watched the Capital Fourth, as our Garner country music star was performing.   Scotty did a good job!   We were treated to fireworks in spite of the rain, as several campers had quite extensive arsenals!

Friday was cloudy and extremely humid, but the rain held off, giving time for the downfall from the 4th to either run off or soak into the soil.   We drove 3 miles west to Lawrenceburg, IN and ate breakfast at McDonald's.   While there we availed ourselves of McDonald's wi-fi and decided that we would drive into downtown Cincinnati to the Cincinnati Museum Center which is located in the 1933 Union Terminal.   The building is art deco, and has a beautiful fountain in front and mosaics of the people who settled the country - from the Native Americans to steel workers in the modern city.   It must have been exciting to board trains there during the 1930's through 50's.   It sat vacant until it was renovated and reopened in 1990 as the Cincinnati Museum Center.  

The Center  is the home to the Cincinnati History Museum, Duke Children's Museum, Museum of Natural History & Science, and an OMNi-IMAX theater.   We were there all day and only managed to go through the History Museum!  

We awoke on Saturday morning to the sound of pouring rain thundering on our trailer roof at 4:50 a.m.!   It rained hard without letup, so after we returned from breakfast, Jack had to do the outside work  in his LL Bean rain suit -- and when he finished he was damp under the rain suit!   We pulled out about 10:00 and drove up to our new campsite in Waynesville, OH, about 23 miles from Dayton, OH where we'll camp until Tuesday a.m.