Today was the day of reckoning. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving and had time to reflect upon what was important in your life.
We got up about 7 and started right away into preparations to leave, albeit a bit tired. Our favorite watering hole had spontaneous karaoke last night and we managed to stay till the end.
Our two cats, June and Fat Cat, were delivered to my Mom this morning. They’ve known for awhile that we were leaving; watching us pack, move piles toward the door, and change our daily habits. June is about 12 and Fat Cat around 13, this move will not be appreciated I’m sure. My mom has a 19 year old cat of her own as well as two dogs. Hopefully, through the sequestering process, the animals will be able to cohabitate. I will admit I am concerned.
Lots of choices made today around what to bring; there’s not much room for all the partially full jars and bottles of sauces and dressings typically found in your refrigerator. We didn’t really have much else in the fridge since we had already started paring back. We moved freezer stuff down to the deep freeze in the basement. Hopefully the kids or Mom will stop by and help themselves to whatever’s left in the pantry. There is definitely no frozen pizza in our foreseeable traveling future, the freezer in the RV is just too small. We did, however, bring some good cuts of meat from the deep freeze and left the hamburger. It’s the cheapest to replace.
I brought the sewing machine and 3 bags of material for projects I never did. I hope to pick up sewing again and a few other good habits. Again, time will tell.
In the haste to make it to the family dinner, Paul parked the motorhome on the street of the family member’s suburban neighborhood. That was great except there was a cul-de-sac at the end and the motorhome + car = 50 feet. When we got ready to leave Paul and his son-in-law unhooked the Toyota and managed to get it turned around in the cul-de-sac with a 75-point turn. The tow straps that came with the American Tow Dolly aren’t intuitive so Paul brought the old ones. That will be one of his projects to figure out once we park for awhile.
We left the family event about 6:30 and headed south to Kansas City. The KOA in Kansas City that’s open all year round is on the east side of the city, and out of the way as far as Paul was concerned. He wanted to get through Kansas City so we wouldn’t have to deal with city traffic. This motorhome is fairly wide, so you have to pay close attention and stay in your lane. It scares me when a car is alongside of us, but he does just fine so I try to close my eyes or use other diversionary tactics.
Paul did a fine job of driving. I basically fell asleep as soon as we crossed the Missouri border and slept all the way to Kansas City. Between packing, eating and about 5 hours sleep the night before, I was exhausted.
The Co-pilot software we have for Paul’s laptop is ok, but isn’t the most user friendly. Had trouble identifying travel centers or rest areas where we could sleep for the night. South of Olathe, Paul saw a billboard for a big travel center so we intended to stop there. We encountered the rest area by Ottawa, Kansas first, and decided to sleep there.
We traveled 301 miles today.
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