It was a very tiring night at Horseshoe Lake Campground. Apparently the Illinois side of the river has become the rail center St Louis always hoped that it would be, and the trains on the nearby freight rail line wanted you to know it. I have always lived in close proximity to trains and am accustomed to train horns, but the engineers hereabouts really like to sound that horn, to the tune of six or eight seconds, which may not sound like too long. Try making your own horn noise for eight seconds repeatedly and you’ll have a hint of what we didn’t sleep through. Continue reading
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The fields in western Indiana show signs of spring, planting and new growth, compared to the western Ohio and Eastern Indiana fields. It was definitely spring in the east, and it’s definitely full blown summer in western Indiana. It was warm and buggy in the evening, but when we went to bed, we opened up the RV and slept quite comfortably. We slept so comfortably that we overslept. There were no birds chirping, no traffic noise, no people, no airplanes overhead, no whispering trees, no nothing. I think that it’s one of the quietest places that we’ve ever stayed. Continue reading