Saturday morning found us leaving White Oaks on the lake camp ground. The weather was overcast with heavy clouds looking like it could rain anytime, however it did not, or at least not on our trip to across country to Peotone, IL, just off of I57. We arrived at the Will County Fair Grounds mid afternoon to find other already there and getting ready for the hamfest on Sunday. We found a spot that looked level and in
an area where we would get a lot of foot traffic. We set up as far as we can and then visit with other vendors that are there. Several we have met before at different shows. As they are an hour ahead of us, or is it behind, we had to get up at 4am to be ready for the public at 6am, their time. Early by any ones time. It was cool during the night and a jacket was needed in the early morning hours. The sun came up through heavy clouds but it never did rain. We had a fair day, business wise but learned a lot. We will go back the first of August for the Hamfesters hamfest at the same location.
We left the fair grounds and headed east across country to eliminate getting back on I57 with all the traffic and big trucks. The roads were quite smooth and wide. When we came to a T we would turn either south or east as that was the way we were heading and we knew we would come to US421 sooner or later. We
finally worked our way to Indiana 14 and we could see wind turbines in the distance and the farther we went the more we found. Maybe over 200 were working and some areas they were under construction. We have seen them in the west but they are certainly gaining in numbers in the midwest. I understand they only take about 1/3 of an acre plus the access road for service. As you can see in the photos, there are homes and farms all around with agriculture surrounding the wind farms, so very little crop production is lost. They are expensive, but they expect them to pay off and make money contributing to the production of electricity without the use of fossil fuels. Different from Solar power, they do not depend on the sun shining however the wind blows almost all the time. I assume they transmit the power underground to the substations as there is no wires above ground.
We spent the might in Frankfort, IN before heading on to Lebanon for lp gas and on to Fishers. We arrived in Fishers about 11am, got hooked up and settled in for a few days.