Trip report. Shipshewana for a fridge

[Tedsoldbus]

Mostly great trip up north. No arrows to my Ohio brethren that gave me advice about going straight through Cincinnati as I am sure they were unaware, but just after I passed where I could take the bypass, they warn of delays. Both north and south bridges of I 75 have 3 lanes. Both bridges are having one lane redone. For the foreseeable future, take the bypass.
JC Electric was fantastic. Fixed/ replaced some of my propane lines and replaced all of the cooling unit in 2 hours. Works too well. Had to set to higher settings as it was cooling almost too much. Wonderful to see the Amish and all the horse and buggies. Saw little and medium kids actually talking to adults! No cell phones except at work. Pretty cool. If you go the JC, they offer one free 30 amp behind the shop. I got there Sat night and used it for Sat/Sunday. That is nice of them but If I had it to do over, I would have stayed at one of the campgrounds. A large motorhome came in late Sunday, parked next to me and did all the slide, levelor hoo ha until 10 pm. That is important because unbeknownst to me, the Amish open the two big bay doors at 4 am and start banging metal, welding etc. I admire their work ethic and of the 11 employees, 9 of them rode bicycles in the dark to be there, and 2 came in horse carriages! However... little sleep, and I headed back south when they were done. Use a campground. Bus ran great coming and going. Good to be home.

[dtcerrato]

Thanks for the update. Imagine if the whole country or world was like that! Wouldn't fret about it on this end...

[Bill Gerrie]

I used them many years ago. Great bunch of people. Great products as well

[DoubleEagle]

Mostly great trip up north. No arrows to my Ohio brethren that gave me advice about going straight through Cincinnati as I am sure they were unaware, but just after I passed where I could take the bypass, they warn of delays. Both north and south bridges of I 75 have 3 lanes. Both bridges are having one lane redone. For the foreseeable future, take the bypass.

The Brent Spence bridge that carries I75 & I71 on two levels has four lanes, each level. All lanes going South bound are open (upper deck), and North bound lanes will all be open within a couple weeks. I was just there on Monday and I sailed through going both ways with no delays. I did not see any notable pot holes either, just truck grooves in the blacktop. You have to avoid rush hours no matter how many lanes are open, the work being done since last March was to repaint the bridge.

[Jim Blackwood]

I went across northbound yesterday and traffic was backed up halfway up the hill at 1:15pm. Still 2 lanes. Didn't get a real good look at southbound. It may be ok. Signs to divert off I-71 to 471 were still up a couple days ago.

Jim