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Some have fresh evening meal. been day trips and some have been longer such as those I After breakfast Day 2 began with a visit to the Fair Oaks Wisdom Teeth Removal have taken with Land Cruise out of Dairy Farm, where the cows reside in Fort Wayne and B & S Excursions out large barns and decide on their own of Portland. when they wish to be milked. Lunch, SAME DAY EMERGENCY EXAMS Many of the groups offer Mystery featuring prize-winning cheese sand- Trips which seem to sell out the min- wiches was at the Fair Oaks Farm Res- Easy Financing Options ute they are announced. I like to know taurant. where I am going, so until this year I And then it was on to visit the RDM Accepting most Dental Insurance Plans Including have avoided joining any of them. Shrimp Farm, located in the middle of However, since I like to write about a cornfield. The shrimp are raised in Delta Dental Premier, HIP2.0 & Medicaid Connecting places our readers can visit, when a pools, similar to above-ground swim- Mystery Trip to Indiana sites popped ming pools. Of course, we had sam- up on the Land Cruise schedule I The truck at the Joseph Decuis Farm, ples! signed up. Here was a chance to find photographed at our last mystery desti- Moving on we arrived at Purdue out about places you might like to nation. (Photo by Barbara Barbieri) University for a tour of the campus check out! and dinner at the Union Club Hotel’s 8 All I knew when I boarded the Land Cruise bus in Fort Eleven Bistro. But the day did not end until we had attend- Wayne at 8 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in May was that ed Howl Night at the nearby Wolf Park. Yes, we howled at ...You To MORE we would be traveling somewhere in Indiana. wolves at the scientific study center and they howled back. And so on Day 1 we visited the Alliance RV Company Day 3 began with breakfast at the 8 Eleven Bistro. Then WWW.NEWS-BANNER.COM (where they make big travel trailers called toy haulers) and we were off for a tour of the town of Wabash and the Hon- checked out the RV/MH Museum and Hall of Fame and eywell Center. At the newly restored Eagles Theatre we had Library, both in Elkhart. Lunch was at the Dunes Beach a private showing of the movie “Hoosiers” as we lunched Call Dr. Hott Walk by Portage on Lake Michigan. That was followed by on Milk Duds, popcorn and pop. a visit to Beverly Shores to see the five “Homes of Tomor- And then it was time to head back to Fort Wayne via a 260-824-2442 row” that were moved across Lake Michigan at the conclu- stop at the Joseph Decuis Farm for a dinner featuring their 2 x 7” ad sion of the 1933-34 World’s Fair in Chicago. Currently the Wagyu beef. Hosts were Alice and Pete Eshelman as they 706 North Main Street, folks living in them are restoring them while living free. offered trolley rides of the farm. Because of rain, our picnic We also viewed Mt. Baldy, which is the sand dune that our BBQ dinner was served in the farm’s elegant stable. Blu ton, Indiana DR. HOTT is taking over a parking lot, on our way to the Shrine of And so the mystery trip ended—the sites a mystery no Christ’s Passion and Our Lady of the New Millennium more. And guess what? I’m signed up for Indiana Mystery (Statue of Mary), both in St. John’s. There is no admission Trips Part 2, scheduled for next May to southern Indiana. charge to enter the gardens at the shrine, but I found it inter- [email protected] hottfamilydentistry.com 6 x 2” ad Health Communities 2 TV & Entertainment Weekly July 24 - 30, 2021 Slots Open for Garage Sales 720 East Dustman Road | Blu ton, IN 46714 www.christiancarerc.org | 260-565-3000 Call for Info. 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