Stuck in Indiana

Note: The previous few posts have been updated. They were accidentally published before the story was completed.  You may want to review the chair and headlight replacement posts.

THE TRIP HOME

We started our trip home on April 7th. About an hour into the trip there was a loud crack like something hit the windshield. But there was no one in front of us. A 6 inch crack appeared on the bottom of the windshield, on the passenger side. Within a minute, it had grown to 12 inches, then to 18 and now is over 2 feet. And this is the windshield we replaced just 2 years ago!

We love Texas in the spring for the wildflowers on the sides and medians of the highways.

Bluebonnets line the highway

White blossom in Illinois and windshield crack.

White blossoms look like snow.

We arrived in Indiana without incident after overnight stop-overs in Lockhart Texas for our favorite smoked brisket BBQ. Then onward, staying at a Corp of Engineer Park east of Dallas, and Walmart in Forrest City Arkansas. The weather was getting colder overnight so we decided to stay in a closed campground outside Effingham Illinois. The owner said the power was on, water was available (but not on camp site) and the dump station was open. How did that work out? Great! It was cheap, and very quiet. We were the only ones there.
 
We contacted the insurance company and started a claim for the windshield, hoping to get the job done before it was time to head across the border and home. Well, that didn't work out very well. While there are 17 windshields in stock in the local Elkhart warehouse, nobody is available to do the job in the short term. We just have to defer it to November or get it done around home.

We were supposed to leave today (15th) but the weather onward from here is filled with freezing rain, ice pellets, snow...bleh. All of southern Ontario is under a winter storm alert. With the freezing rain and high winds, power outages are very likely. We will snuggle in here and head out on Tuesday after things warm up a bit.