Ready, Set, Go!

I've been loading things down to the dining room floor by the front door of the house for the last several days... Things that needed to go into the RV for Arizona....  I had quite a pile...  Not like going camping... Much more stuff...

Then on Monday morning, I went over and traded the car for the motorhome...  So the carrying of stuff began in earnest... That was interrupted however, because I needed to drive downtown again to go to the hospital and get the cyst surgery repacked with its gauze stuff...

I can go three days between these packings..   Ready....... Set...... Go!  You got three days...

Much later in the afternoon, son Ben came by and we went to retrieve the car from the storage lot...  And with his help most of the pile in the dining room was now in the coach...  Not put away mind you, just piled up.. On the bed and the sofa...

Cold stuff was tossed into the warm fridge...  Remember, ready set go!  I hugged Ben and locked the house door...  6 PM... Almost dark now...

I drove out to the I 35 highway and turned South....  That turns into a toll road once you get to Emporia.....   And I am pulling the utility trailer with the motorcycle in it so that counts as an extra axle....

We had a favorite park in Wichita called Air Capitol RV, and I made it there about 11pm...  I drove in and took a spot just like I had reservations...  Dropped the jacks and put out the slides and commenced to put stuff in closets and cupboards....  No one came by to ask who I was or if I planned to pay....  There weren't any lights in the camphosts 5ver..  I assumed they went back to sleep...

This morning, when I went in to pay, the lady said her husband knew instantly by the way I circled the perimeter and drove right to the correct sites for my sized rig, that I was a repeat customer... And since I had parked right across the street from the office, I probably wouldn't run out..

You can bet they had my license tag number just in case.......  LOL

And it is quite expensive by Kansas standards, as it was $47 after the 10 % good sam discount..  But I had 50 amp electric and used the dreaded electric heater all night...  Still I couldn't use that much juice in days... But it is well lit and all concrete and relatively safe..  Wichita has a lot of older parts of town, and this is marginally near one of them...

Today, I drove most of the day across Kansas...  Stopping in Pratt at the Wal Mart as my cupboards were really bare..  Then at a roadside park later in the afternoon for lunch...  Its all two lane blue roads, but in places they have been improved to 4 lanes...

Took on some fuel in Guymon, Oklahoma... A part of no man's land..  The pan handle of Oklahoma was originally Texas, before they couldn't have it any more..  Its North of 36 degrees and 30 minutes which was declared as free states... Texas was Southern and Slave... Actually no one wanted that strip of land...  Its interesting to study..  Oklahoma was told it was theirs..

So tonight, Tuesday, I have stopped at the Corral RV park in Dalhart, Tx..  $22.50  FHU with cable tv...  Gravel parking lot with overhead wiring...  A few small trees, just enough to block the satellite..  I learned that the last time, when I didn't pay the extra for cable tv...

So day one of the three day race on my wound packing is in the books...  If I get to a bigger town, I'll need to look for a urgent care somewhere...  Or yank it out by myself and declare it good...

Retired Rod