Sunday May 3, 2015

Joani found a city RV park, Johnny Appleseed Campground, in Fort Wayne, IN that had mostly nice reviews.  It was pretty close to the downtown area to make exploring her old hometown a bit easier.  Our drive was relatively short at 173.5 miles (74,118.9 total) and again uneventful (just the way we like it).  We arrived at 1:30 only to find our site was not ready.  It was still occupied since check-out was not until 2:00 (check-in after 2:30).  There was a good place to park while we waited, and to pass the time, we walked across Harry Baals Drive to the St. Joseph River.  (Don't you know Harry had to say a million times - "it's pronounced Bales!")

The campground was adjacent to the Fort Wayne Coliseum.  That meant there was a large parking lot nearby that we found was used on the first Sunday of every other month for some street racing.  The drivers were racing against the clock.  That meant lots of flooring the accelerator on the straightaways and lots of locking up the brakes on the corners.  You just expected to hear the crunch of metal following the tire squealing, but there were no incidents and the event was over before dinner, so once again, we were lucky!

We were lucky that this wasn't an everyday event.  The noise was obnoxious to the non-car enthusiast.

Our site was more level than I would have guessed based on our first look.  The power pole was almost too close, but I couldn't find the water.  When the host showed me where the water was, I had a problem.  Fortunately, she had some loaner hose since the spigot was more than 60 feet away!  In more than two years on the road I have only had to use my extra 25-foot hose once or twice, so that was a new one for us.