Ice.........

Wichita, Kansas    Temperature 42....

Tonight we are in the Air Capital RV Park.. in the South end of Wichita..  We stayed here on the way out last November...  The place is brand new.. and mostly concrete and grass...  Full hook ups with cable tv.

Its rather expensive if you don't have a camping club affiliation and try to use a credit card...  But show up after the office closes and have cash to put in the envelope and its $30.....  Makes me wonder what happens to the cash....

Last night turned out just like I was describing...  cold and freezing rain.. I got out of bed around 3 AM and it was 29 with ice all over our windshield..  One of our electric heaters had completely given up, so I was plugging it in all over the coach...   Flipping all the switches..  Finally it came on...  I have no idea what I did...

Fast forward to about 8 AM and still 29..  Ice all over everything.. we were bummed out....  I went out and hooked up the water hose and sewers..  The neighbor next to us was dealing with his frozen hose...

Slowly the park emptied, and we were about the last ones to leave...  The road was wet but not overly slick..  The ice was freezing on the windshield...  For the next hour the temperature was right at 32...

We filled the diesel tank again at Guymon, Ok...  More to take advantage of the $3.78 price, as we know that Southwest Kansas is out of sight...

Lunch was in a city park in Meade, Kansas...  This is where the Dalton Gang had their hideout many years ago..  Today there is a museum to celebrate this fact...  Otherwise it is just another small town in the West end of Kansas....

But the great thing that happened while we were eating lunch was that it stopped raining...  The temperature also went up to 36...

We stopped at Pratt, Ks for a Wal Mart rest stop...  It was after 6 when we finally came to the RV park in Wichita...  I wasn't sure how to get here thru the streets, and the park is so new, that I couldn't find it in the GPS...  So I guessed which exit to use and luckily was right...  As when I reached the surface street the park was right where it should have been..

Its about 190 miles into the home front tomorrow, so we will make the deadline for the medical folks.......  But it will still be cold.. and the RV is a disaster as far as its wash job..  Its still very much so winter here in Kansas..

Retired Rod