Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Red At Night…Sailor’s Delight
New Castle, Indiana
Last evening at the Indiana State Fairground Campground, about 8:00 pm as I was posting the log, Ted noticed that the sky looked funny. We had just had one of those fast moving, mid-western storms pass through. It rained hard for about 10-minutes and then the sun came out – bright and sunny – like it was noon. Then this really odd red glow came in our windows. Ted grabbed his camera, hurried out of the van, and caught these incredible roll clouds. The second photo made me nervous cause it looked like a funnel cloud forming.
It wasn’t too long after Ted took these photos that the sky returned to normal like they were never there.
This morning as we were unplugging, getting ready to head east, UPS came through the campground – delivering packages to some of the vendors. What was unusual is the size of this UPS Truck. We had also seen the trunk inside the fairgrounds yesterday. Ted actually stopped the driver to ask if he could take her photo…she said ok if he hurried…she was on the clock. She said they use the little truck for lots of “close quarter” events.
That old saying: “Red at night…Sailor’s Delight!” must be true. Today was absolutely beautiful. Blue skies, northerly breeze, low humidity and a very comfortable 78-degrees….couldn’t ask for a nicer day. By 10:00 we were on the road heading east toward Muncie, Indiana where a good friend, Peggy S used to live. She often talked about a bike trail she liked to ride. It’s the Cardinal Greenway – a paved Rail-to-Trail that goes from Marion to Richmond. Muncie is just about center on the trail. Along the way we stopped to do some grocery shopping and then, a little farther down the road in Fortville, we stopped to take care of laundry. By 3:00 we were pulling into a campsite at Indiana State Park: Summit Lake. Here at the Lake we are close to the town of Blountsville, where we’ll pick-up the Cardinal Greenway tomorrow. It’s been almost a week since our bikes have been off the rack ….we have to work off all of that State Fair Ice Cream.
Thanks For Riding Along!
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