Day 3 now in Iowa, between Omaha and Sioux City

Here we are at another KOA in Onawa, Iowa. The day started in pouring rain and proceeded to gallons of rain, and then finally cleared. We passed through areas that were white with recent snowfalls, so I guess we are glad that we only had to deal with rain. We bypassed Moscow and even crossed the Mississippi which looked like it was flooding it's banks. We were on the road about 8 hours, about 7 actually travelling. Did 666 kilometers. The best part was heading north from Omaha to the campsite -smooth sailing. Earlier in the day we had a lot of cross wind so the truck was like riding a bronco - all over the road. Saw lots of windmills, fertile but very wet fields. We have been enjoying a bunch of old, I mean really old, cassette tapes from our youth. Everything from Joan Baez to Bob Dylan and Abba. Good times, good vibes. All going very well. Except tonight we are out of Frozen youghurt!

Day 2 of travelling now finished. We have had a beautiful sunny day and streamed past Chicago without difficulty. Past Ottawa and now in Peru, Illinois. Just after we arrived at the campsite the thunder and rain arrived. No worries as we had picked up a rotisserie'd chicken and salads so had a great dinner. Completed another 578 km today, now a total of 1051. We are still talking to each other, played the alphabet game x3 today. 20% of the trip done - Yahoo. On to Sioux Falls tomorrow.

Happy May 1st. Here we are near Flint Michigan. Yesterday was pretty exciting. We finished emptying and cleaning the house and took piles of garbage and recyclables to the top of the driveway. Good thing it was garbage day! Then we went to get a new tire for the truck. They had ordered the wrong one on Saturday and then told us on Monday that it would take until Friday to get the right tire! We prevailed, paid more money and they had a new tire for us and installed it on Tuesday morning. We picked up our health summaries from Dr. El Khouley and wandered over to get hair cuts. Still no call from the lawyers office. Finally heard from Real Estate Agent (Leslie Price) and from new owner and from lawyers office to say that the purchasers had had a snag at their bank. Head office had not sent a letter to branch office to release the funds.... Finally at about 5:00 we got the call from the lawyer, the deal was done! Yahooo. Money now in bank and Barb and Laurie jumped in truck and headed to Leisure time - a campsite on Highway 9. Then we drove over to Orangeville, had dinner at Kelseys thanks to some generous people. Back to our campsite and we both had a realllllly good sleep. Today we drove through Sarnia to Flint, Michigan and here we are at a KOA. Saw 5 dead deer on roadside, border crossing uneventful, Barb survived driving 437 kilometers in 5 hours -beautiful weather (hot in fact), lots of traffic leaving Toronto but no problems. So far so good! PS - having issues with pictures. Cell phones not liking US systems.

testing pictures

This is a picture of the tulips that Marilyn gave us. Just trying to figure out how to move the picture to the blog.

Getting back into the blogosphere

We are packing up and moving out. Will be on the road in two weeks so wanted to try blogging and doing pix before we head out.

Picture practice

 
 
 
These are 3 pictures from our trip out to BC in August. The first is Lisa with Grandma Bunton on her 95th birthday! The second is at Kalamalka lake, celebrating my Dad's 90th birthday. I am playing with my nephew Taz's son, Chase.
the third picture is at Don and Andrea's at the precelebration for Dad's birthday. Pictured are Ruth and Stan, Dave Don Gerry and Barb.

gearing up again

We are planning to head south soon. We know we would like to go back to Nashville and Memphis and so will head that way. We may circle around and head back towards Georgia and Florida. Its quite liberating not to have a plan or deadlines.

Yahoo, I see to be able to remember how to blog! Adding pictures might be another thing.