END OF THE ROAD.

 We leave the Badlands behind and turn east  into Nebraska towards home.  We  look for a rural highway and choose Hwy 20, and travel through dozens of small farming communities and pass miles of brown burned grass.  Like most of the country this year this area has experienced  a severe drought.  The only life we see are the herds of beef cattle huddled around the windmill or solar pumps.  As we move south and east towards Omaha the landscape becomes more hilly and the great Nebraska corn fields appears, watered by those huge circular irrigation systems that make much of this land useable.  After a weekend in Omaha  we head into Iowa and towards the town of  Dyersville  to visit the world centre of toy tractors. 

 there are two toy tractor manufacturers here and the world largest collection of toy farm implements.  We see the daddy of this Cat in the field in western Nebraska pulling 2 sets of disk that were 60 feet wide each,  I guess when your field is a couple thousand acres you need big toys.

Also in Dyersville is the Field of Dreams  made famous by the movie of the same name.  It has been kept the same as it was for the movie.

 When you are at the field of dreams you may as well live the dream and hit one out of the park in the bottom of the ninth to win the worlds series. (great form)

 later in the week we stopped at RV/MH  Hall of Fame in Elkhart Indiana. The above picture is one of the first RV's made in  about 1912.

This is the interior, not quite up to today's standard but useable.
This weekend we stop and visit some friends we know from our park in Florida.  Verlin and Virginia are two great people whose love for  the Lord shines through in everything they do. We respect them and love them a lot and had a great couple of days together.
As I type this we are only a few miles from the Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit Michigan from Windsor Ontario.  And so our 2012 journey ends, 60 days and 8715 miles later.  We have seen much of North America in these last three summers of travel. We have been in 10 provinces and two territories of Canada and 44 U.S. states, we have seen and experienced so much and yet we are aware that we also missed so much as well.   We were made aware nearly everyday how great and awesome is our God who created all we have seen.. We have met some great people, some for only a few minutes  in passing and some camping neighbors for two or three days.  We visited with many old friends along the way and are very grateful for the kindness and generosity  we found with each of you.
Next week begins a new chapter in our lives as we relocate back to our old hometown in Windsor.   Moving, another house to remodel and make into a home, old friends to reconnect with and new ones to meet.  We look forward to the challenge and eagerly await the challenges ahead.
We thank you who have followed us on this blog and those of you who have kept in touch by phone and e-mail, we hope that you have enjoyed  traveling with us as much as we have enjoyed the trip. We love you and wish God's blessings and peace on each of you.