Monday, October 22, 2012

Just like that its over.......

The trouble with weekend camping outings is they are over almost before they begin...  And just like that it was Sunday morning and the humid overcast came in from the West...  No sunshine today...

Most of us were still rather full from the feast the night before, so a big breakfast was not on the agenda.  We spent most of the morning cleaning things up to go back into storage...

Mostly for us it was redrain the water from the plumbing and cleaning the sewer system for storage again....  I opened the low point drains before we left for KC...  The fresh water tank didn't have any thing in it, so that wasn't much of a problem...  We will watch the weather forecast to see if we need pink stuff before we slip out of Kansas....

We were way up in the air again with the leveling jacks on the front end...  I had used some of the lynx leveler blocks under the jacks and grandson Caden crawled under and retrieved those..   Grandpa doesn't crawl on the ground as easily as he once did...

I think it was about 2 PM when we left, and Caden decided that he needed to ride in the Motorhome on the way back to KC...  His sisters didn't know about that, and were more than surprised as we left the park with him sitting in the big front seat....  Loyce was driving the little car...

I stopped at Ottawa for the Casey's General Store convenience station next to the big Coop Elevator in Down Town....        They had diesel for $4.19 which was as cheap as I had seen it... I gave $4.39 in Olathe on Thursday....  But I noticed that the price here in town now is $4.25...   Must have hit the absolute high point....  But I usually do not drive around in the coach with under a half a tank of fuel...

I'm not as skittish about it now, but finding diesel in a station where you can get the big motorhome into the driveway and back out into the street is somewhat of a problem...  Not so bad when you aren't pulling a trailer or a car, but when you can't back up stations become truck service places only...

We are going to take the trailer back with us to Arizona, so we will be right back in that mode again..  But that is several weeks away.

Anyway the motorhome is back over in its storage lot tonight and Caden is back at home awaiting going to school in the morning....  Our son's have their campers full of the pink stuff and camping is declared closed.....

But spring will be here before you know it!!!

Retired Rod

4 comments:

  1. words I dislike, "Storage", and "Pink Stuff" but it won't be long you will be heading out :)

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  2. The anticipation of that next trip out is always something to look forward to. Be Safe and Enjoy!

    It's about time.

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  3. Well, at least your family's camping season went out with a bang! That was a great way to wind up the year and a good omen for next spring too!

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  4. I thought I could get one more camping trip in before winter, but today there is snow in the Sierras and rain everywhere else. I'm not as hardy as I once was, so I'll just wait for spring.

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