Our new YOLO rig. This is the box van we built to take us on our new land adventures. It's a 2020 Ford Transit cab with a CargoPort fiberglass box on the chassis. WE built everything else for our new ride.
Jason testing out the inside space.
The view across the lake for our first night's stay at a boat launch in SW Michigan.
We had great autumn colors along our journey.
We get out to take our walks around our camp spots, but are careful to wear our blaze orange and bright yellow vests so we can be seen during this hunting season.
A decorated elk statue at the RV Hall of Fame and Museum in northern Indiana. We got there late in the day, but they said we could park in their lot overnight and view the museum the next day.
Who knew there was a Hall of Fame for RVs?
Posted on a tree in their parking area for RVs.
Colorful red maple just outside our door. You can see the frost lines on the side of the van.
Karen in a bear cutout in the museum.
I left our mark on their chalkboard insided.
Jason in front of his favorite RV, from 1937. It belonged to a Hollywood cinematographer.
More old camper vehicles.
You could look inside and actually go into many of these.
This original 1946 Teardrop camper was from a kit. The new 2021 versions still look almost identical.
A sign of times that seems so appropriate sometimes that this place sells these.
We designed our logo and it was created and installed by Jake at JSL Graphics in Elkhart, IN. Jason had it put on while I was visiting Colorado for my Mom's birthday, so I was surprised when I got home to see the artwork now on the van.
The Wesley Chapel Gulf, a large sinkhole in a limestone karst formation in Indiana. We'd had heavy rains, so this water hole was up in level and we could hear the Lost River trickling out down some unseen hole in the rocks and could see the leaves swirling in slow spirals as the water circled the 'drain', or swallow hole.
The high mud levels left after the water receded in the sink hole.
We found some hedge apples/osage oranges along the trail to the sink hole. We put them in corners in the rooms of our cottage to keep bugs and spiders from taking up residence. They don't grow in Michigan, so we got some from my sister in Kansas earlier this year.
A mud structure made by some burrowing reptile, it reminded me of the sand castles you can make by dribbling wet sand through your hand.
YOLO tucked away for the day at Buzzard's Roost campground, high on a cliff above the Ohio River in the Hoosier National Forest in IN.
A blue mushroom along the trail to the creek that flowed down the mountain to the river. We walked part way down the steep trail, but were happy with our view from far above.
You can see a coal barge, at least 5 barges long heading down the river. The cliff view was pretty spectacular, even if this phone camera doesn't capture the scene.
This conveyor belt, we imagine for grain, meandered for about a mile before it crossed the road to reach a loading yard.
Late October and we were still seeing flowers!
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