Our brief stay in Louisiana,  Missouri was delightful...Sally fed us healthy (and Floyd ate zucchini! And green rice!) ... we made a short tourist visit to Hannibal and got to spend time with Sally's twin sister Susan. The view of the Mississippi River was awesome...so enjoyed spending time with the SaSea Sally crew...we headed out Thursday as planned.

We spent a delightful evening on Thursday in South Bend....ventured to a little Italian restaurant called Carmela's...observed a wedding rehearsal dinner in progress...sipped wine and made TUMBLEWEED plans. Much to our surprise, our truck played temperamental! At departure from restaurant...no dash board instruments worked. We thought it was probably a fuse issue...but our attempts to play with fuses proved futile. Floyd's plan to find a Ford dealership with early hours on Friday for a quick fix seemed like a great plan. Plus it meant that Dakota and I could sleep in.

If only it were so easy! At mechanic suggestion, we headed on to Northport using GPS as speedometer and gassed up along the way....arrived at TUMBLEWEED safe and sound Friday afternoon...just a little later than we had planned.