Tuesday, June 18, 2019

06/18/19 -  Well, well, what a day.  I will begin from the beginning.  I got up at 7:50 am and was  hoping to leave by 10:00 am.  I got the inside of the RV all done and then went into the house to finish closing  up since the family is still  gone.  I watered her plants, turned off the water and put the water heater on vacation  mode.  Then filled up the fresh water tank, emptied out the gray water tank and did the usual disconnects.  My step stool that I keep outside was quite muddy, so washed it off.  I finally pulled out at 10:45 am. 

Because of I-70 west was closed in Kansas City and we had to detour, it took longer to get through that city.  I finally got to the truck service area around Lawrence,  Kansas so  I could have lunch.  It was 2:20 pm already.  I had an urgent message from Alice (the gal I am spending time with the next two weeks), telling me that they were under tornado watch and now warning and it was raining really hard and because  of that the ground is too soft for me to park there.  She informed me that there was a campgound about 6 miles from her and gave me the number.  I called and sure enough she had a spot for me.  We decided to pay for 3 days to see if things will dry up so I can move to their house. I was on the  other side of Topeka so decided to start driving and hopefully won't be a lot of rain.  About 65 miles from my destination, I got into pouring rain and I just pulled off on the next exit and waited for the storm to pass.  It took about 20 minutes and then I started out again.  At times it did rain but not enough for me to pull over.  I got to the campground at 5:35 pm. I called Alice and she came over to send time with me while I set up.  It is very wet here but I am on gravel so that is helping alot.  She had made dinner and so I drove over to her house, had dinner, chatted a little and now I need to take a shower and get to bed. 

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