Road tripping + petting fabric

 The hubster and I were road tripping this week. We went to Elkhart, Indiana with our fifth wheel. Going through Chicago was not fun, but we went through on Memorial day so there was no rush hour going on at least. And we went through yesterday after the morning rush hour.  The reason to go was to get a new suspension on the fifth wheel and disk brakes, then of course new tires were also needed. We could stay on the Mor Ryde campus Monday night as they had electric hookups. Then they worked on the camper on Tuesday so we had to be out of it so we went to Ligonier, IN to Zinck's fabric. I had a little fun getting a few pieces of fabric there. Next we went on to Shipshewana, IN. That was fun to see all the Amish buggies coming and going, a lot of them were on bicycles too, some were Mennonites. There we visited Yoders Department store, this photo is the side of their building with lots of barn quilts. Inside was two quilt shops, a very large hardware store, and a clothing store.

One of the quilt shops had soooo much fabric, I enjoyed petting a lot of it, LOL.  We also walked the flea market there and visited the bulk grocery store.  Another quilt shop stop was Lollies, OMG a ton more fabric to pet!!  This was in mall type building with three floors and several businesses in it. There was also a store with just Minky in it-I didn't remember to go in it after being in Lollies!  Come back on Monday and I will show you what all I bought at the shops.  

After returning to the fifth wheel at the end of Tuesday we could stay in the camper that night too. However it was still in the building so we camped indoors! There were two other campers and their owners in there too so we had a chat fest with them that evening. Wednesday we had to get out of there again so we went to the RV Museum in Elkhart. That was fun to see some of the first campers ever made. The first one we came to was actually a covered wagon... I had never thought of them as a camper!

Another early days camper 

A line of some from the 40s and 50s.

A very small Airstream!

I think this was inside the Airstream. It was just fun to see all the different years and how things have evolved. 

Our camper was all fixed and ready to go on Wednesday afternoon. So we pulled out to a campground for the night. At the plant there was a train track across the road and we heard whistles and train noise all night long and hardly got any sleep. The campground was very quiet and we slept great!  Thursday morning we headed for home but stopped at the Indiana Dunes National park and walked down to Lake Michigan and did a little hike before hitting the road. It was a long day but we were glad to get back home.  If you read to the bottom of this, I appreciate you!  I just thought you would want to know why I hadn't posted all week!  Now I need to get back into the sewing room and unload the camper, which won't take long as we didn't take much for the four day trip. 

Hope to see ya here again on Monday! In the meantime lets go get some more inspiration at these linky parties...

TGIFF, Finished or Not, Off The Wall