We got up this morning to a temperature in the mid-forties and headed on west. It was not nearly as windy today but bad enough. We drove thorug a number of showers, stopping for lunch in a rest area just into 
Idaho from Utah. I stepped out to walk Muffie and thought that I'd freeze! The temperature was 51 and it was very windy. While there a gentleman approached who had broken down and needed to call for a wrecker. There was a port of entry next to the rest area so we got information on where to get one from them and I used my cell phone to call for them.
We arrived at Mountain Home at a little before 3pm. It has now cleared and the skies are beautiful. We drove around the town just to check it out, after we got set up. We are in the Mountain Home RV Park and it is a very nice park for the price. Nice level concrete pads with most sites pull-through. Full hook-ups and cable TV for $35. We would definitely stay here again.
We arrived in Evanston this afternoon and took a quick tour of the city, since we had not been here in quite a few years. Evanston seems to be a very healthy community. It is on the western edge of the Wyoming high desert country and at about 6800 feet altitude. 
As we traveled west across Wyoming we notice that there is still snow behind some snow-fences and along the lip of many of the ridges. The mountains that you pass are all still very well covered in snow and the word is that they have had far above normal snowfall last winter and this past spring. Now the problem is that it has been warming up fairly rapidly and the result is flooding. The little stream called Bear Creek is now a raging torrent and the runoff has just begun!
We are spending the night at the Phillips RV Park at exit 6. It is a nice park, very clean and with good gravel roads and level gravel pads. The price was $29 for the night with 50A & cable. They also give a 10% discount for cash.
We made a run up to our old home in Cheyenne, WY today just to check things out and see a few old friends. We actually had a pretty good day and really enjoyed seeing some of the great things that are being done around the town, but as we were leaving we happened to stop by the visitor center for a little information and we met some folks there who we having a very bad day! It seems that they stopped for fuel just across the road, then at McDonalds for lunch and parked in the RV slots for the visitor center to eat their lunch. While sitting at the dinette to eat, something very bad happened to the diesel pusher and it suddenly began to roll. With their Jeep attached, it rolled across the parking lot, jumping the cub and coming to stop at the bottom of a steep slope. 
We spent several hours there offering what assistance we could, which was mostly being a sympathetic ear and a friendly face. They are fellow Texans and also Escapees so we wanted to do all that we could, which really was not all that much. We left wishing that there had been more we could have done, but with our motorhome 50 miles away, we couldn't even offer a place to retreat to while waiting for things to get untangled.
We arrived at Loveland, CO about noon on June first. The day was overcast and cloudy but the trip went well. We got set up and then traveled out to the home of one of Pam's classmates from school days who was once her closest friend. Had a great evening and we all went out to dinner. 
We are now parked in Johnson's Corner RV Park, which looks quite impressive, but it also has it's weaknesses. The sites are quite small and tightly packed. Being located near the interstate highway makes it very convenient, but also very noisy as I-25 here has constant traffic and many trucks. We do have a view of the mountains, but only when you look over the highway and obstructions. One positive side of this park is that nearly all sites have reasonably good shade.
We plan to stay until Sunday and use this as a base for our visits to the area and also a quick trip up to Cheyenne to check out that area and possibly look up some of our friends from when we lived there. The weather is beautiful today and sounds good for our stay here.
We are headed west now on the next leg of our adventure. We are currently in Goodland, Kansas for one night and staying at the Mid America Camp Inn. While it is hardly the most awesome place that we have ever stayed, it is more than adequate and the access to I-70 is good, sites are laver and pull through and it 
includes cable TV (there is little available by antenna) and wifi. We have actually stayed in this park in the past and while it isn't one that I would recommend for a loger stay, we find it to be fine for a short visit. It is an older park that is run by older folks and most of the customers are either over-night from the highway or construction and farm crews.
Fuel prices seem to vary a great deal along the route, with some as low as $6.64 and others as high as $3.79. Goodland is at $3.71, with Oakley at $3.79 and back around Wakeeney it was $3.65. I figured up and we have been running about 8.3 mpg so far for the trip from Texas.
This is a very special day and one to remember those who give us our freedom, and have passed on into history. It isn't about food and fun.
Yesterday was a travel day, and a good choice as it turned out, since we had beautiful weather, after two plus days of mostly rain, at times very heavy. The trip was an easy one, of only 97 miles. We are now back on the farm of my aunt and in the area where I lived as a boy. Council Grove, KS is just down the road, my grandparents once lived just over the hill from here and the farm where I grew up is less than 20 miles away.
It is a rather nostalgic visit since our last one was in August, when I drove my uncle to the hospital, where he passed away only a few days later. As much as we enjoy this place, it also hurts at times as my uncle loved the farm so much and he was such an important part of it for all of us. He was my last surviving uncle by blood line and was only 12 years older than I.
In the nearby area are many of my cousins, boyhood friends, and former schoolmates. Council Grove was the big town to me in the 50's, as it is the county seat and the place where most business was done. Like so many of my friends, I had never traveled outside of Kansas and the state capitol was the largest city that I had ever seen. I think that the thing that amazes me most when I return is the short distances between places that I used to consider to be a long trip!
We have now completed what is typically our longest one day trip of most year's travels. We have made the trip from north Texas to Wichita, KS so many times that we normally get an early start and do this in one day. From our home base to our landing spot here was 444 miles. We left Bass Lake at about 7:30 am and arrived here at 4:30 pm. Not a bad trip other than the hour of travel at 35/40 mph due to extremely hard rain just as we were crossing the Texas border. We made a stop at the first OK rest area to wait it out and after about 15 minutes it began to let up, so we continued on. By Oklahoma City it was nearly stopped and we refueld there and ate lunch. Once back on the road the rain did not return and we finished the trip on dry roads.
We will be here for a few days to visit family and friends, staying with our friends and former fulltimers, the Hollingsworths. They have the best RV park prices in the city!
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