August 10th - Friday 72 degrees
We arrived at Wright-Patt Air Force Base on Monday, August 6th around 4:00 pm. One look at the Fam-Camp was all I needed to know how disappointed I was at this Fam-Camp. We have camped at many Fam-Camp on the Eastern Coast and this has to be the worst kept camp of any. It has great potential for being a great camp. It has all paved sited, with pull-through sites with full hook-ups and 50 amp, picnic tables at each site. The grass has not been cut in weeks, dead shrubs at many sites, weeds every where you look. Just general neglect. Lack of funds, lack of help?
We have a nice enough site and with temps in the high nineties when we arrived, we were certainly happy to have 50 amp so we were able to run both air conditioner units. We quickly got unpacked and set up. Enjoyed a dinner of Lemon Chicken breasts and homemade potato salad and homemade bread. After we were cleaned up from dinner we enjoyed the movie of J. Edgar Hoover.
On Tuesday we made a trip to the Commissary to stock up on groceries, fill up the gas tank on the car and to get settled in. This is one of the luxuries of being retired from the military and we try to take advantage of this. We found gasoline for $3.64.
After, we had lunch we drove to Bethany Lutheran Village, Lou knew I was very anxious to see my past. I was amazed and very pleased at my first glimpse of the Village, and more so and we continued on our drive around the property. The house where I had lived for seven years was gone and in its place was a beautiful lake. The cottages that I had designed and brought into existence were still there and in beautiful condition and in fact the powers to be had continued to use the same blue prints and built more. We are going back today and I am going to go inside and talk to someone in admissions and get a little more of the details. Do wish there was someone left that I had worked with. Some one to share my love for Bethany with.
On Wednesday, it was 97 degrees and we decided to go to downtown Dayton and we toured the Packard Museum. There we found more than 50 Packard automobiles dating from 1903-1958 displayed in an Art Deco showroom that included a working service department and a vintage car pavilion. The museum was an authentic restored Packard dealership building. A rather neat experience.
A trip to Dayton, Ohio would not be complete would not be complete without visiting The Wright Cycle Company Complex. Here we saw probably the best movie on the Wright Brothers that I have ever seen. The Complex consists of the Wright Cycle Co. building and the Wright Brother’s Cycle Shop along with their Printing Shop. It gives the history of all and we found all of this very interesting, even though we had all heard all of this before. It still amazes me that these two preachers kids were so intelligent that they could so methodically build an airplane!!
I am blown away at how Kettering and Centerville have changed and still stayed the same. We visited the homes where we lived and the schools that the children attended and I took pictures. The grade school that Krista attended is still there; however, it is no longer used as a school.
Yesterday, the entire day was spent at Wright-Patt Air Force Base Museum and we still didn’t see all of it, but I can tell you my back had had it. I remembered much of it from the prior visits there. My father loved going there when he would visit us. Much has been added since his visit and many of the planes that used to be outside have been brought inside.
That brings us up to date. As you must realize, we do not have internet service here, so can only post as we are able. We are off to Bethany and then down route 48 to the Golden Lamb for dinner.
A view from the orchard at Bethany
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