Aug 4, 2011 - MY HOME TOWN

We made it to my home town of Connersville as a base to be able to go out in to the country to see about geocaching in the area. We found a wonderful waterfall in Richmond where I had gone as a kid to swim and walk in the creek to look for crawl dads and some fishing on shore. This place was where we would go camping as we grew older and the place where we would stop to see the falls at night with our girlfriends. We went over to Glen Miller park where back in the 40's, Mr Miller was playing concerts in the park for my mother to enjoy as a...

Aug 4, 2011 - Things Are Smellling

We have been here now for three days and got to see my friends and went out to eat. We ran around town and did some Geocaching in the country. Norma had some trees in her yard when growing up as a kid in PA. She saw these trees growing along side of the old whitewater canal, the canal was filled in with dirt. You can still see the walking path along side the railroad tracks where the animals would pull the grain barges on the toll path from Connersville to Indianapolis.Barges were the main transportation for getting grain and farm items to...

Aug 2, 2011 - In The Driveway Again

We made it to my home town of Connersville,Indiana for a few days to visit my grade school friends. I went to grade school and high school with John and we stay in his drive when ever we come to visit. We stay about three days and nights and then we our on our way. We do not want to over stay with our friends, I have always said that visitor's are like fish , after three days they both start to stink. We had a great time talking about the old days and went out to eat one night and the next night I got pizza for everyone at the house. We got...

Oct 9, 2010 - Old Fashion Train Ride

Today we decided to take a side trip and ride an old fashion train. We rode our wagon to Connersville, IN., where we boarded the train for a 1 /1/2 hour ride to a town called Metomora. Our ride took us through the country side parallel to the old canal channel and along the Whitewater River. The water was very low and we could see the large fish swimming from the train. During our ride the conductors and brakemen/women sang songs. They explained sites along the way including the gas pump cemetery, the car cemetery, and oil drum cemetery. We...

Aug 26, 2010 - Time To Head Back Home

This was to be a one week vacation to Ohio for the Geocaching Event, it turned out to be more then three weeks and a few more miles then what we were going to drive. We were going to drive up to Ohio and back, we did a few side trips like Michigan, Indiana. All in all it was a nice trip, we enjoyed the slow pace of driving and to be able to go where we had no plans on going to. We enjoyed small towns and the fun of what we may see along the way of life.

Aug 21, 2010 - another small town also

We have been in town now for a few days and have gotten around to see all my high school friends and had to show Norma where we had gone swimming on those hot summer days as a youg boy. We had gone to waterloo bridge north east of Roberts park on our bicycles when the hot summer was up on us. We would ride for mile to swim and then ride our bikes for mile to go to the south end of connersville to play Baby Ruth Baseball. We did crazy things like jumping off the bridge at waterloo bridge to jumping from the train bridge in east...

Aug 19, 2010 - Another Small Town

We had a nice slow drive from Peru to Connersville which is my home town. I moved away from Connersville at the age of 16 and I do come back every few years to see my friends and the town.We have not been up for a few years and we were not going to be here this year. But we at the last minute wanted to go to Ohio for the Geocaching Event, that turned out from a few days to about a three week vacation. We camped in the drive way of a school friend, we had been in grade school, jr. high and three years in high school before my mother and dad...

Aug 12, 2010 - MY HOME TOWN

Norma and I have went around to ALL my old friends home to see what has been going on with them. This is my friends from years ago and still my friends , not a lot left from the years of the past. Most of my friends have moved to another city or have died in the wars of long ago. Today we get to talk about what we love to do and what we want to do. Norma and I was out Geocaching, when a big rain storm was coming our way. We left what we were doing and heading on to John's house. We our staying in his drive way camping in our 24 foot travel...

Aug 11, 2010 - MY HOME TOWN

I get to come up to Connersville every few years to see the town and my boy hood friends from years ago. I went to school with John from the first grade to junior in high school before I had to move to Florida. So when I get close to Indiana, I need to stop by and say hi to my old school friend from years ago. We get to set on the front porch of his house, like we did when we were fifteen years old. We would talk about the years to come and what we want to do, now we talk about the years in the past of what we did and what we want in years...

Jul 8, 2008 - City Grave Yard !!!!!!!

Gary and Norma had to go into town to wash up some things that they have used up during the three weeks on the road, like blue jeans, shirts and socks. Too bad they have to wear clothes and we don't as dogs. While they went out to do what they have to do , we went for a walk down to the city grave yard. The grave yard is very old and we found graves from the early 1700's and a special grave marker. It was a doll house for a small child that had died early in life. We like to go into grave yards to feel the " SPIRTS " all around us, we dogs...

Jul 6, 2008 - Leaving the Campgrounds

This is our last day at the Kenny Irwin, Jr. Campgrounds. Gary helped John clean the rest rooms and pick up trash. Our people ate lunch with John and his family and with Kenny, Sr. Strange...Missy and I did not get to eat any of that great food! Finally it was time to go. We followed John to his house in Connersville, Indiana. Crystal and Jason took Missy and me for a couple of nice walks. Later that evening, John and his family took Gary and Norma to Liberty, Indiana to the Liberty Bell Restaurant. They said the food there was...

Jun 10, 2007 - HOME TOWN

We left the bluegrass camp site and wanted to head over to my home town. Getting into town and heading up to my best friends house, we pull into the drive way and find out that he was not in town for the weekend. So we being close friends, I set up camp in his driveway for the weekend. When we were pups, we had gone to the old swimming hole, the Whitewater river that was the main water way during the early years in the 1800's. A man name John Conner built a trading post in 1815 and started a town called Connersville. We all went to the...