Day 5 of trip north - Sunday July 24, 2016

We packed up early in the morning and hit the backroads.  We had been in the central time zone since we crossed into Tennessee, but would be going back to EST once we got into Indiana, so we factored in the hour time difference we would "lose".  Once again we had about  a 7 hour trip that covered around 260 miles, but worth it. It is amazing the country that you can see when you can travel without having to be on the interstates.  Of course, you need to have the time to be able to do that, which thankfully, we do now that we are retired.  Our night's stop was at the Prophetstown State Park near Battle Ground, IN, an area rich in history.  We didn't arrive there until 4 pm, so we didn't stop at any of the landmarks.  We were there just for the night, and in the morning we would be heading to our next stop in Coloma, Michigan.

The bridge over the Ohio River

Rustic barns dot the cornfields

We stopped at a community park in Greencastle, IN to have our lunch





On either side of the roads, literally as far as the eye could see, were soy bean fields..

...or corn fields.  Some fields alternated rows of soy and corn.  One of the fields was over a mile along the road extending back to the horizon approximately 11 miles away.  That's a heck of a lot of corn!  And just one farmer's crop!

Our campsite at the state park located near the Wabash and Tippecanoe Rivers. The town was named after  Shawnee Indian Tecumseh's brother, Tenskwatwa, who was known as "The Prophet".  In 1811, he convinced the tribes to attack the white soldiers before the soldiers could attack them.  But, General William Henry Harrison had sent 1200 troops to fight the Indians.  The battle was over in two hours.  The remaining Indians fled and the soldiers burned down the settlement in what was known as the War of Tippecanoe. After the battle, Harrison had gotten the nickname of Old Tippecanoe, and in a presidential campaign, with John Tyler as his running mate, Harrison used the winning slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too" to become our 9th president.  Among other activities at the park, there is a working farm known as Prophetstown Farm that was established in 1920, as well as a large aquatic center.  Our one complaint was that we had to pay a $10 entrance fee in addition to a registration fee and fee for the campsite just to have a night's rest.  So far, this was the most expensive campground.