Day 32: Meeting Albert in North Vernon

We woke up to a dreary and cloudy morning after a night of thunderstorms and rain.  We ate some breakfast on the go bars and headed on our way.  After about 20 miles we stopped for a short break and bought some fresh baked donuts that hit the spot with some chocolate milk.  The morning was filled with small hills and we were hoping for flatter terrain in the late morning before lunch and we found some just as the sun began to shine.  Jody was happy to see plenty of fine horses grazing in nice green pastures.  We headed up to Brownstown for lunch and ate at McDonald's.  We are all trying to spend less money at fast food places ever since we spent a lot on dinner in New Harmony realizing we cant eat like kings.  We left Brownstown and just continued the way we came in and realized that we actually needed to turn off on to another road.  So we made a new route which consisted of more back roads to get us on tract and to North Vernon.  Once in North we set out looking for a house and had a little trouble at first till we knocked on Albert's door.  We knocked on Albert's door because we noticed he had some nice wooden tractors in the front lawn that were plant holders.  We thought that they were a good sign.  Albert immediately began telling us stories of his travels to Oregon and out west while we sat on he beautiful new porch.  Then Katy, his wife, offered to cook us a pizza for dinner, and so we ate while we chatted.  We all got showers and ate ice cream, which seems to be something we eat multiple times a day now.  Albert had told us about an old scenic town called Madison which was down along the Ohio River, and had offered to drive us down there to take a look.  So we decided it would be neat to go down and check it out.  We got to Madison and went for a walk around the block.  Albert wanted to show all of us this really stunning yellow house with big pillars but could not seem to find it.  So while we were looking Albert kept us entertained with all of his jokes and stories.  The town was very beautiful old buildings and a very scenic view of the river.  After being unsuccessful at finding the yellow house we got back in the truck and went around to look once more.  Albert was very determined to find this vanishing house.  After only a block or two we found the yellow house and it was beautiful.  Large white columns and landscaping to match.  One of the real treats of the evening was getting to listen to Albert's CD's of old country music.  We listened to Roy Orbison, Josh Turner, Rosanne Cash and a couple other good artists.  It was really neat to hear some older music for a change and hear a little history about them.  We were all getting tired by the time we got back and Albert hooked us up with some of the nicest blow up mattresses that i have ever seen.  Over a foot and a half thick with built in pillows!  We set them up in the garage because the there was rain in the forecast for the night.  It didn't take long for us to all fall asleep.

95 miles, met Albert, not as hot