Listing Through Life

I was 70 miles away in Elkhart, attending a leader training seminar which ended every evening around 5:00. Than meant I could spend the evening alone in my Comfort Suites hotel or find adventure. No contest. I drove through Amish farmland to the Dog n Suds in Fort Wayne, one of the very few I haven’t visited.

For starters, there was no entrance off the highway so I had to backtrack several times before I finally discovered how to get to it from a mall parking lot.

It was a new building, with new signage, so there was no sense of nostalgia.

I’d already eaten supper, but I ordered a corn dog and a large root beer. The corn dog was bland with little taste to the dog or the cornbread. But worst of all, they iced the root beer with crushed ice so it was already watery by the time I took my first sip, with none of the creaminess. And it only got worse. I didn’t stick around long.

I’m glad I went to check it off on my list and to get out of my hotel room, but I wouldn’t recommend this location to anyone.

I spent four days in Elkhart, Indiana attending a seminar. It was a last minute assignment, so I didn’t have much time to plan, and I didn’t have a lot of free time anyway.

I did have a couple hours to kill the afternoon I arrived, and the National Recreational Vehicle Hall of Fame and Museum seemed amusing.

The hall of fame part wasn’t — rows and rows of photos of people in the industry, elected by people in the industry. But the museum part was interesting. About 60 RVs of various sorts were arranged in a large room. I was able to go inside many of them. And I had the entire collection to myself for most of the time I was there.

I didn’t make much of an effort to keep track of which RVs were which and which interior photos went with which exterior photos, so here, in a jumble, with a few scattered comments, is what I saw.

The vehicle on the left in the photo above is the first ever registered RV, built in 1913, I believe. Here’s another photo of it.

Airstreams

One of my favorites. I think I matched the exterior and interior on this one.

I think the one on the left was built for Mae West.

Some of them weren’t all that attractive.

I appreciated the old ones with the amazing woodwork.

Note the easy chair driver’s seat on this one.