Travel Day To Hutchinson, Kansas

Thursday
October 1, 2009

We had our usual morning of waking up and having coffee together. We went outside and noticed that all the severe weather that was predicted must have passed over us without dropping a single drop of rain. However, the wind was blowing hard. After I wrote and posted the blog we finished getting our home ready for traveling.

We got on the road at 11:30 heading for Hutchinson, Kansas to attend the Escapees HDT rally. It was an uneventful drive except for the wind. This has been the most wind we have ever driven in and we headed directly into it. I’m glad today’s drive was only a short 140 miles. The truck handled great but I still knew that the wind was out there.

The Official Banner Welcoming All HDT Owners
(Big Boy Toys)

We arrived at the Kansas State Fairgrounds at 2:30 and were greeted by Mike and Pat McFall. Mike & Pat sell the Pressure Pro tire pressure monitoring system and the Power Tank system. I highly recommend the Pressure Pro system. This has been the best money Gina & I have spent since we began RV’ing and we will never tow anything without it again. If you are considering RV’ing or currently traveling with an RV and do not have a tire pressure monitoring system then you need to buy this system. I promise that it will be the best money you ever spent. This is by far the single most important safety system for RV’ers. Not to mention how much stress it removed from us while we are towing our home down the highway. After we got backed into our site Gina got the inside of home all setup. We took Angel and Zoey for a walk around the park and stopped and talked to a few people along the way. We would have walked longer but the wind drove us back inside. The wind has been blowing 20 to 30 mph all day with gusts over 40 mph. They have two other rallies (Monaco owners and Holiday Rambler owners) going on right now. There were four big trucks here already and one arrived after us today. We skipped breakfast and lunch today so we decided to eat an early dinner. We heated up the leftover ribs and ate them with our potato salad. After our early dinner I decided to brave the wind and put up our satellite dish. While I got the dish aligned Gina was chatting with Ashley & Parker in Grenada on IChat. After she got off of IChat we just settled in for the night. I was able to watch Fringe on TV. I believe this is becoming my favorite TV show. Gina got on Facebook and around 12:30 in the morning Chris our son-in-law’s mother chatted with Gina and asked her why she was up so late. She said “I have no clock and nowhere to be, so I wake up when I fill refreshed and go to bed when I get tired”. This is a hard life but someone has to do it. We finally went to bed at 1:15 in the morning. We had a nice travel day and enjoyed meeting a few other couples that travel in big trucks. The Rally does not officially start until Sunday so over the next few days there should be a lot more trucks arriving.

Until tomorrow, Gina & I hope everyone has a pleasant and wonderful day, enjoying what our Father has so graciously blessed us with.