On to Ohio

After the last session, we took pictures of the group.   Hmm. I believe I am the shortest one there?  Sophia is about as tall!  And I know she will outgrow me for sure!

 The girls and I had taken one the day before also.

I said good-bye to the girls and they headed back for Wisconsin.  They had to drive through Chicago!  I don't think I would ever do that.  I did it once and that was enough!!

 The valet got my car and I turned on my GPS to leave Indianapolis.  It wasn't too bad.

I was not returning to Kansas just yet.  As my mother's home place was only 2 1/2 hours east, I was going to go visit my relatives!  (I should say 2 1/2 hours if I didn't stop, which I did, of course, making it a 5 hour or more trip!)

 I took I-70 to Spiceland.  Filled up with gas there and drove north to 36. 

 Missing a few states??

 At New Castle, all traffic came to a stop as an ambulance and police cars zipped by.
At the next intersection, even though it was green for us, a motorcyclist stopped us to let all his buddies through.

 Check out the ice-cream shop to the left.  Not DQ!,  but Weenie World.  ??

When I got onto 36 I saw a sign for Wilbur Wright's birthplace.  I thought I would check it out!

It was 10 miles east (I was going east anyway) and then 4 miles south. 

It was going to cost $8 for the tour, but the lady working there let me in for free just to take photos of the outside of the property.  I really couldn't spend an hour there as my uncles and aunts were expecting me for supper.

Smokehouse and barn 

 

Drove back to Highway 36. 

 In the boonies!

 Be careful puppie!

 I had put Spartanburg in my GPS, not realizing it was 1 mile north of 36.  It is an unincorporated town founded in 1832.  Unknown population.  I realized I needed to reset my GPS, but decided that I wanted to go see this little town anyway.

 I passed this burned out building.

 I saw a lady walking her dog and I asked her what this building was.  "An old school that burned"
Sure is a BIG 2 story building for being out in the middle of nowhere!  There is a fence around it with a locked gate.

I crossed into Ohio.  And was in Palestine!  Went north on 127.

I saw a sign for Annie Oakley's burial place.  Of course I had to check that out! 

 My granddaughter asked me "Who's Annie Oakley?"  What??  How can you not know that?  Wild west and all that.  Check her out here.  She is a sharp shooter who traveled with Wild Buffalo Bill. 

Al's dad, Elmer, is nicknamed "Bill".  Everyone called him that.  Not Elmer.  He was nicknamed after Buffalo Bill because as a youngster, he loved to pretend to be him!

 Al's dad is in the front row, 2nd from the right.  Can't you just see him pretending to be a shoot 'em up kind of boy?  Look at the teacher's face.  Like she is keeping her eye on him!

 Moses is buried here too!

 Much sadness.

At Carthegena I happened to see this!

Seemed out of place in farming country.

Grand Lake St. Mary's at Celina.

 An impressive town!  Population about 10,000.

 I got onto 75 to head north.  I would have liked to have gone back country to my uncles' but 6:00 was coming up fast and I needed to scurry to get there in time.

At Beaverdam, they had the road blocked for a town party, but I was able to just go around the block.

 A school house close to Pandora.

 And then I got to my uncle's place!  These are my mother's two brothers and their wives!  I just love them!  The last time I saw them was at mom's funeral.

 

This is the house my mother grew up in.  We lived with my grandparents for 6 months when we came to America in 1956.  I have such good memories here whenever we were on furloughs!