Sharp's Travels

We got the full tour of Ingelboro Mansion Bed and Breakfast. We stayed in the Green Room with its 4 poster bed and high boy dresser in dark cherry. We even had a private entrance to use if we wanted. The owners Bruce & Bobbi are a neat couple. They gave us the history of Ingelboro and then took us over to tour a second home they are restoring.
We were invited to join the problem solving council members coffee clutch at the Second Cup, a local restaurant. We enjoyed talking with everyone. The group broke up around 9am and we headed back to the Excel service center to check on how they were coming on our 5thwheel.

We met up with Brian & Devorah Sanders and found out they were about ready to leave. It had been a fun few days visiting with them and sharing information on 5th wheels and sites to see. We said our goodbyes and wished them safe travels and then headed out to see the geographic center of the U.S. We took a look at the miniature church there and took a few pictures. We had forgotten to bring along our papers on the geo-cache hidden there but remembered some of the clues so we began looking around for it. Gay located it down inside a pipe to the right of the church. The clue to this one was “be sure and bring our tools to retrieve it. He finally used a long screwdriver with electrical tape wrapped around it, in hopes the sticky side would grab the side of the little container. It worked! We signed the log and replaced it and headed back into town.

I had one more place I wanted to visit and that was the art gallery. We parked the truck and were headed down the street and a lady stopped us and told us a storm was coming and there was lots of hail with it. We rushed back to the truck and headed back to the service center to see if we could get inside the garage. The service manager said “if you can beat the employees, go ahead.” We got in and headed for the lounge but we were told they wanted us all over to the main office basement. The sky was green and the clouds were whirling around. It did not look good. We watched outside for a bit until the wind, rain and hail hit. The hail was about the size of quarters. We were worried about Brian & Devorah Sanders, our friends that had left earlier in the day. Before the storm was over we got a call from them saying they had skirted the edge of the storm and had a little hail damage, but were ok. That was sure a relief. Smith Center had hail damage, the high wind had flipped a small building and the lumber yard sustained some damage. This is the worse weather they have had here since 1909.

We picked up our belongings at the service center and headed downtown to Duffy’s for supper before returning to the Ingelboro Mansion for the night.