Our Week in Cleveland

We belong to a camping club called Thousand Trails. We bought a membership when we got our motorcoach. We get to stay at all affiliated preserves across the country. The properties are well-maintained resort campgrounds and include a clubhouse, swimming pools, golf, tennis, restaurants, fishing ponds, game rooms and various other amenities. The Thousand Trails outside of Cleveland is great - it's one of the largest ones we have been to. They have several lakes in addition to the other amenities listed above. It's a park we will hopefully visit again.

We will be staying here for two weeks. Andy has a travel week – so we will do as much as we can in the first week.

We spent Saturday at Lake Eerie in the town of Geneva-by-the-Lake. Had a blast skimming stones and beach hiking. We got caught in a hearty thunder & lightning storm. Don’t get those in Oregon – so we thoroughly enjoyed it. Henry got freaked out by the thunder - so we rushed back to the jeep before we were thoroughly soaked. Since our beach day came to such an abrupt end we headed into town and found a Thai restaurant and got some tom yum to go.

Sunday we headed into the city center to tour the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The museum shares a parking structure with the stadium for the Cleveland Browns – our bad luck – home game for the Browns. No parking close-in, so we coughed up $25 bucks for parking in an annex lot. Bummer! The museum was great – we spent several hours enjoying the roots of rock and roll. Lots of memorabilia and there was a video wall constantly playing music by the Beatles, Elvis and The Rolling Stones. Had a nice section on the blues – which is Andy’s favorite music. It was fun seeing the handwritten lyrics, outfits and instruments from the early days. The museum was featuring an exhibit on The Grateful Dead. We had a good time – learned a lot – saw a lot - If your ever in Cleveland I say it’s a must do!

                                                                                          

Andy flew out on Monday for a meeting - so the next few days were pretty low key. Lots of walks and talking to the neighbors in our park. Everyone here is really friendly. Met a couple from Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. We used to take our kids to Dollywood/Gatlinburg every October when we lived in Kentucky. It was enjoyable reminiscing about those days. Made a note to possibly add that as a stop in the spring. Went into town to a farmers market and chatted it up with a few of the locals. People from Ohio are extremely friendly. The Midwest is definitely underrated. 

It rained ALL DAY on Wednesday – so that day was a bust. Picked Andy up at the airport that evening then went to dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant we heard about from a fellow camper - it was delicious - we never get tired of Asian food.  Got back to the park and stated packing up the rig to leave on Thursday.

Almost forgot - we visited the nearby village of Austinburg. They claim to have THE WORLD'S LARGEST ROCKING CHAIR! I may have to ask Dr. Kelcey why her mom has such a fascination with large world oddities - hmmm.