Kansas

I'm not really all that fond of Kansas. It might be because we are in the middle of nowhere. It's 15 miles to the nearest anything. The park we're in isn't all that bad. It appears to be a piece of old pasture land. The power (50 AMP) is good and the water is crystal clear well water. The price here in Deerfield RV park is fair too. For $15 a night or $90 a week, you have all the hookups (power water sewer) you need and access to a Bath House if you need that too.

On our way here, we had a tractor trailer rig cut in front of us on the highway, throw a tiny little stone and chip the passenger side windshield. In the siteline of the driver to the rear mirror on that side, it was only a tiny little chip no larger than a pencil eraser. Before we got to our destination, it had become a more than foot long, full fledged, vertical crack. The glass people that the insurance company uses are a National company that claim to be able to service you anwyehere in the country. Guess what? They don't have anyone in this area that does RV windshields. Kindly, they've agreed to wait until Jim's next job assignment to get someone to us.

We also lost our dash air. That's not a big problem. We tend to use the generator to keep things cool when we travel. The dash air just won't reach the whole forty feet of the coach to keep it cool anyway. Thankfully we have a CSP plan. CSP is a mechanical breakdown plan that covers every part of your RV, right down to the televisions! I think I might be really happy that we opted for the $50 deductible plan. The pricing is so reasonable that now that the coach is over three years old, we would have been crazy to not have it.

You know, when we started RV'ing 5 years ago, I began keeping a daily hand written journal. I did that for about a month. It was just getting too tedious, and I was writing 5 and 6 pages daily. That went by the wayside, but Blogging seems to be a better way for me to do this. And those friends of ours that like, can read what's going on with us. I don't have to send a mass mailing to any of you. I can just post here whenever there's something to tell, and people can read whenever they feel like reading.

There's actually not a lot going on right now. Over the July 4th long weekend, we did take a drive to Pueblo, Colorado. It's only about 200 miles and it seemed like a good daytrip. I think we may be going back again this Saturday. It's a REAL town with all the things and places that we're familiar with normally having at our disposal. The real truth is that Jim saw a car he thought was really nifty, and he wants to get a better look. If any of you out there are interested in buying our Dream Cruiser, we might just be selling it pretty soon. Jim has a very difficult time working out of it.

The equipment he has to carry takes up a lot of space, and too often he's bending into the trunk (with its low hanging door because of the convertible top) and breaking his back to deal with his supplies. He just really needs something a bit larger. In case you aren't aware, it's the 4th edition, 2005 model Dream Cruiser. They only manufactured 1700 of them and ours is #1349. Just let us know if you're interested. :) And the best part is that if you're and RV'er, it's wired and ready to just hook on to your rig and take off. It's even already wired for the Blue Ox Apollo Braking System.

Anyway, when we went to Pueblo, we could see the Rocky Mountains. Not very well though, because it was very stormy black in that direction. On our way back, we weren't able to get ahead of the rain storm. At some points in the drive home the sky just opened up on us. We had rain so hard that we couldn't, at times, see the vehicle in front of us. We even had some pea sized hail. I took some photos of the sky behind us as we were speeding along in a hurry to get home. Maybe I'll post one or two of them later, when I get my film card out of the camera.That's it for now. It's a cool cloudy day here in Western Kansas, and I haven't seen Dorothy or Toto yet. I'll be back tomorrow or Monday.