Starting for home??

Monday morning and we all meet for our final breakfast together, maybe. Linda and I are heading northeast, yes we know that home is southwest, and C & C are going south. But there is a slim chance that our paths will cross in the next few days. As we head out of Indianapolis we see some areas that are somewhat affluent and still there are boarded up houses. There was a lot of houses like that in the areas around the racetrack which are older and poorer. We are off to a BBQ in Ohio and finally call them for directions as we poor city folks have problems in the farm country with county roads and their unique addresses. The store owner explained his address but unfortunately it probably will not apply to the next state that we are visiting. However his place was not a restaurant but a meat market and BBQ catering company. But he did make us a couple of pulled pork sandwiches and let us have a tour. Just for information it was a 200 mile ride to get here and we could not verify on the weekend what type of business it was, however we would have come in this general direction as the BBQ place close by in Michigan was verifiable. From there we went to the Michigan BBQ which was not very far north. We quickly found it and then started west on state highway 12. I had forgotten how much we enjoy riding through the northern farm country. Everything is green, fields of crops, large trees, thick forests, quaint farm houses, red barns, crumbling barns, lots of antique stores and nice, clean small towns, and we almost hit a dead beaver in the road. But we finally left Michigan 12 to go to Elkhart, Indiana where we had a discount coupon for a motel. As we entered Elkhart we saw several industrial buildings that were closed and had real estates signs on them. Our motel was right to a MacDonalds where we can have breakfast and across the street was a restaurant that served walleye. If you have followed our blogs you know that finding walleye is a quest for me. It is a nice mild fish and is only found in the Great Lakes area. Linda and I split an order and after our pulled pork sandwiches that we had earlier we were quite content. So  now we will have a good night's sleep and prepare for the Illinois traffic that we will face tomorrow.