We woke up pretty late this morning due to going to sleep last night rather later than usual because we were listening to the final heats of the nearby stock car racing until around 1:00 AM. After coffee and cereal, we collected our stuff and departed North Vernon’s Muscatatuck Park and headed north on IN-3 with Howe, Indiana’s Twin Falls RV Resort as our destination. IN-3 is a nice, two-lane road with farmland and lush forests lining the road that runs north-south from Kentucky to Michigan.
We followed IN-3 up to pretty close to Markle, IN, where we ran into a substantial detour due to washed out bridges. Right before we ran into the detour, the skies got darker and darker until unleashing a rainstorm the likes of which neither of us have witnessed previously. It was quite a bit worse than one of our romantic dates where we go to the drive-through car wash for the exciting ride. Even with Charlotte’s usually adequate windshield wipers on high, a setting that seems to have always cleared the windshield during perfect storms, we were almost unable to proceed. We almost blindly moseyed along the long, serpentine detour following the barely visible IN-3 ALT signs at about 10 miles per hour with quite bleary vision for about 25 miles until the thunderstorm took mercy on us and relented.
We drove on into Fort Wayne (home of TV’s Frank Burns M*A*S*H character) and popped into a Costco for a break from driving, some groceries and a hot dog and two brats. We loaded our newly-purchased booty into the Invader and continued up IN-3 to Howe. We were pretty frazzled from our wonderful driving experience in Indiana’s rain so we settled down for some drinks, dinner and some movies before calling it quits and passing out for the evening at about 9:30.