Thursday, May 26, 2016

With the house under contract, we needed a break while we waited for our closing date.  To avoid the crazy Memorial Day weekend traffic, we left the Sawnee campground a day early, put the coach into storage and headed out in our toad.  Joani made a lot of calls to find a storage facility with a vacancy (it was amazing just how difficult that was).  It was just outside the Cumming, GA, city limits, so the drive in the coach was only 12.2 miles (76.735.6 total).

We drove the FIT another 240 miles to Lebanon, TN, to visit with the Parriott clan.  After a long weekend, I drove my mom and Joani (in mom's plush Maxima) up to Iowa to visit relatives.  We rolled into Story City, IA, in time for their annual Scandinavian Days Festival.

We had the chance to see Macy in a dance recital, eat at one of our favorite BBQ spots with the Osmundson clan and have some homemade ice cream at Sweet Treats in Jewell.  It was so great to see everyone.

This time the corn was planted and already knee-high, unlike three years ago when the fields were too wet to plant.  It was one of those rare times when we were able to extend our visit for a full ten days on the farm.