Day 914

We were up at 7.  After breakfast and hooking up we were out by 8.  I wanted to take the toll road to I35 because the most direct non-toll route had a blocked freeway.  Ellen said go another way that she found.  So we did.  Bad idea.  Things went well until we got near the airport.  Then her inability to read a map had us going in the wrong direction.  After several miles we made a U-turn and went back the other way.  At least we had no traffic problems all the way through Texas.

The same wasn't true in Oklahoma.  There was road construction in Oklahoma City that had generated a 2.5 mile traffic jam.  Ellen had the internet show us another way.  We drove 2 miles on the frontage road.  No one else was on it even though the people on the freeway could see it was empty.  We stopped for fuel even though we'd only gone 50 miles since a fill up.  That gave us enough to get to Wichita without stopping again.  The last 1/2 mile involved a little detour, but all in all we saved a lot of time.

When we got to Kansas we had to stop at a toll booth, on the interstate.  It cost us $5 to go 25 miles.  We made good time overall, getting there about 2:30.  Mileage was so-so, maybe 11 to 11.5.

Crap kept happening when we were setting up.  The park is brand new and the concrete is so smooth that we couldn't get the trailer level because the blocks slipped.  I tried to open the bedroom slide and pushed the wrong button.  The off-door slide crunched the cabinet door again.  I don't think it's fixable.

That wasn't the worse.  There was Malt-o-Meal all over the kitchen counter.  Ellen hadn't closed the box.  I had to take out the rack and the liner to clean it up.  That involved screws and tacks.  That's when I discovered that her olive oil bottle leaked.  I then noticed that the shelve above was dirty.  That was because she'd put a sesame oil bottle up there with the cap off.  Of course it had spilled.  I think that's the source of the funny smell we've been smelling since we left Austin.

I ended up scrubbing both shelves with 409.  I also used pet spray on the upper one.  The lower one doesn't smell anymore, but the upper one still does a little.  I had to go to the Dolla. Store to get some more shelf lining materiel.

So, instead of being able to relax after setting up the trailer I ended up cleaning and driving around for over three hours.  When combined with the morning's navigation problems I was really pissed.  I'm pretty much over it now.

Dinner was left over tacos.  After that it was TV and surfing.  This place is the first we've been at that has cable.

I'm hoping that traffic won't suck tomorrow morning.  We are at the south end of  Wichita and we have to drive directly north through it to get to the next stop.