Last night sucked. There was a big thunderstorm that started just as we went to bed. It lasted for an hour and made it impossible to get to sleep. It finally calmed down, but a couple of hours later it started raining so hard that it woke us up. Back to sleep and a little later I woke up with a nasty coughing fit. I must have coughed for 20 minutes.
Eventually we managed to sleep until 7 when people leaving woke us up. I turned over and went back to sleep until 8. Then it was breakfast and getting ready to leave. That was made better by a morning thunderstorm that soaked me by the time we left.
I screwed up for the first time ever by not disconnecting the power cable when we left. Fortunately I noticed it just as we turned on to the main road. So I'm on the side of the road in the pouring rain putting it away. The red handle had come off, so I took a side street to go back to get it. The street looked like it dead ended, so I turned around in a vacant lot. It was so soft that i almost got stuck. Fortunately 4WD got me out.
Finally, on the way out of town we had to wait for 10 or 15 minutes on the highway out of town. All this shot before we had left the city limits.
It was raining really hard when we left. The highway had so much water on it that I didn't drive over 55. About 4 miles out of town I almost lost it when we hit a big pool of water. We did luck out when we got to the highway turnoff 7 miles down the road. They had the road we weren't taking blocked off because of flooding.
The hard rain lasted for 50 or 60 miles. It was some of the hardest driving I've done with the trailer.
After the rain let up things were easier. Devyn even was a little quieter.
We didn't make very good time thanks to the crap before we left town and the endless number of podunk towns that we had to slow down for. Most of them had stop signs or traffic lights. We averaged 53 MPH. We mad a little over 10 MPG for the first 70 miles. After that it was 9 to 9.5 for the rest of the 250 miles.
We got in to Grand Island about 1:30. The office was closed and there was nothing in the preregistration box. We were just about to choose our own spot when someone showed up and told us to wait. About 15 minutes later someone showed up and we checked in. It is a nice place and they are nice people.
It's cold here. It was 47 when we got here and warmed up to 52 later. We're freezing.
After setting up we went into town. I finally found a place that had the RV parts I needed. We also stopped at Wally World for much needed groceries. Then we took a quick tour of beautiful downtown Grand Island. It was nice to see a place that wasn't dying.
When we got home we ordered a pizza from the park and started the wash. The pizza was really good and only $10. I had a mango Mike's, which was great.
After dinner was surfing and TV.
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