Balloon Rally

This year we were finally home for the balloon rally. 

There was a lot of hot air at the airport where a sizeable crowd gathered for the event.

 This is the first year that Hot Springs has had a balloon.

 At sunset they started the balloon glow. Twelve balloons from around the country were here.

After the balloon-glow we were treated to a concert by Clint Black. And all this for free!! Nice!

Cannonball Run

Thursday the participants in the motorcycle cannonball run stopped over in Hot Springs for rest and repairs.

These antique motorcycles are traveling from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific on the backroads of the U.S.A. 

We couldn't resist stopping to see them leave while we were downtown for the Farmer's Market on Saturday morning.

They left in three stages forty-five minutes apart.  This was the final group leaving. I am not a motorcycle enthusiast but it was pretty neat.

I worried this guy wasn't going to get his started!

We're home!!

The five weeks we spent on the road looping around Lake Michigan was an amazing and most enjoyable trip. It is at least ten degrees cooler here each day now. It still has a long way to go to equal the temperatures we were enjoying "up north." But we are settled in at the dead end for a while to accomplish some projects.