Apologies as I am so far behind in getting this summer’s trip info out but hopefully over the next few weeks I can get completely up to date.
In the second half of June we stopped in both Ohio and Indiana. While in Ohio, we took a quick trip into PA, where we had the opportunity to see family, friends, and celebrate my youngest’s 30th birthday!
We took two scenic trips while in Ohio. We visited Fort Ancient, located near Lebanon OH. Fort Ancient is a Native Americans earthworks complex built by the Hopewell Culture. It is the largest prehistoric hilltop enclosure in the United States. It is 3.5 miles of walls built over an estimated 400 years in three stages. It is interesting to see that these walls have remained for all these years. We were able to walk around the walls and visit their museum which covered 1500 years of American Indian heritage in the Ohio Valley.
The second trip we took while in Ohio was to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright Patterson AFB. This museum took us a couple of days to go through. In 1954 this museum went public, though collection of artifacts started in 1923 by the Engineering Division at Dayton’s McCook Field. This museum houses over 360 exhibits over 4 buildings. It is a must see if you are in the area and have interest in how aviation and our Air Force has evolved. They also have a few Presidential Air Force One planes on exhibit as well including the one that transported Kennedy from Dallas back to DC.
While in Indiana, we were able to catch up with Rusty and Don, friends we made while in Florida over the previous winter which was a great time!
We did a little sightseeing as well and took a ride to where the Battle of Tippecanoe occurred. The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought on November 7, 1811 in Battle Ground, Indiana between American forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Indian forces associated with Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa, leaders of a confederacy of various tribes who opposed settlement of the American West. As tensions and violence increased, Governor Harrison marched with an army of about 1,000 men to disperse the confederacy’s headquarters at Prophetstown, near the confluence of the Tippecanoe River and the Wabash River. The day we visited they were having a fiddle festival so we were able to catch some fiddle music.
The other trip we took was into Fort Wayne where we walked around the fort and along the St Joseph and St Mary’s rivers.
From here we traveled to Michigan where we spent almost all the month of July!
Fran and Jeff’s Retirement Adventures 