IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE IN OHIO

We settled in a park near Shelby/Mansfield, Ohio over the Labor Day Weekend. This park is in the middle of nowhere but has fantastic RV sites. We have a sculpted patio that looks like flagstone, a gas bbq, lawn swing, wrought iron dining set, picnic table, screened portable fireplace, a fire pit and they deliver the local paper to us every day. Over the holiday the place was packed with families hurrying to enjoy themselves but before and after the holiday we had the place pretty much to ourselves.

There wasn’t much to see in the countryside but we did go to Mansfield where we visited the Richland Carousel Works, one of only two such factories in the world that still makes hand-carved carousel figures. The manager explained the process with us and showed us 52 figures that they were restoring for a private collector. Then we went to a new carousel that the city has developed and the child in us took a ride on it.

We had an unexpected pleasant surprise when we discovered in emailing our friends Mary and Marilyn that they were near us on their way to New Jersey. So the next morning we met them for breakfast at a Perkins restaurant just off the freeway that they were traveling. What a wonderful coincidence! It was great to see them again and compare travels. We never know what each new day will bring.