Today is another long driving day. We left Jim’s place in Springfield, Missouri about 7:30 a.m. this morning and are now about ten minutes from the beltway around Kansas City. We’ll be in Kansas in about twenty minutes headed ever westward. We have reservations at a campground just inside Colorado. It takes about nine hours to drive across Kansas so we should be at the campground about 7:30 p.m. MDT tonight. A drive equally as long tomorrow will put us in Soda Springs on Sunday Night. My brother Perry is driving over from Green River on Sunday afternoon and my sister Eileen is coming up from Sandy for a couple of days. We should have a fun visit. We’ll continue on home on Monday afternoon.
We had a nice but brief visit with Jim, LeeAnn, and family. We arrived about 6:30 p.m. on Thursday evening and parked in their driveway. After a quick bite, we joined Jim and the boys at the Cub Scout Pack Meeting. Jim’s new church calling is the Cub Master in the ward. After a fun-filled event we went back to Jim’s house and visited. Friday morning he went to work and we just did stuff around the house. I took the motorhome to fill it up with propane and Nina did a little grocery shopping. In the afternoon we went to a Civil War battlefield Wilson Creek and did a driving tour. Later that evening LeeAnn discovered that the kids had all picked up a good many little companions — tiny red ticks. After getting the kids de-ticked, having a lovely taco soup for dinner, Jim and I tackled another small task. His house, which is a very nice house, has all two-prong electrical outlets. We swapped a few of them for three-pronged outlets. They have a problem with the wind driving water under the garage doors and flooding the garage. We scoped out a couple of options to fix that at Home Depot. And that ended the day.
It was oppressively hot in Springfield yesterday and last night. I fired up the generator for a while so we could run the air conditioner and cool off the motorhome. The generator is too noisey to let run the whole night, so we sweated the night. Next time we’ll park in a campground where we’ll have 30 amp service.
Nina is driving and I’m at my computer table. We’ll run out of SprintPCS connection in a little while so this might be the last post on this blog until we get to Denver sometime Sunday morning. Kansas City is well behind us….