WE HAVE DAY 2 UNDER OUR BELTS

This morning started out just as bad as yesterday.  Rain, Rain, Rain.  We were on the road by 7:00, and we finished off Iowa and Missouri in the rain.  

Then when we finally got onto the Kansas Turnpike, the sun broke through and we drove the rest of the day in the warm beautiful bright sunshine.  High today in Kansas was 60 degrees. 

I love the Kansas Turnpike.  It is a beautiful road, with beautiful scenery, and well worth the $10.00 it costs to drive it from the North-East corner to the South West Exit.  

We are settled in here in Oklahoma City and are only going as far as San Antonio tomorrow.  We could push on through to McAllen, but if we did we would arrive very late in the day and have all the unpacking and trailer set up to face.  So we are going to face all that after a short drive from San Antonio on Friday morning.  After we are all set up, un-packed and settled in, we will still have grocery shopping to do.  

LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR HOME SWEET TEXAS HOME.  

 

TEXAS HERE WE COME

We were up and at'em bright and early this morning.  We were on the road by 6:30. Foggy and rainy.   

We drove through rain the entire day.  We finally called it quits tonight at 6:00pm.  We will spend the night here in Council Bluffs Iowa and travel across Kansas and Oklahoma tomorrow.  

We are just searching for a weather forecast I want to see some sunshine, I am sick and tired of rain.  



DAY 1 DONE, ON TO DAY 2 

WELL I THINK WE ARE ALL READY TO ROLL

I just got the OK from my doctors so that we are clear to leave for Texas.  This weekend we took the car out to Jack and Susan's (where we leave it for the winter) 

The truck is all prepped and ready to go.  We are now in the process of packing it with all the stuff, that has been cluttering up the condo for a couple of weeks or so.  

 Hopefully we will get away nice and early tomorrow morning and try to make Sioux Falls SD or Sioux City IA or maybe even Council Bluffs IA.  That would be a good first day.  

 

Then day two we have the long drive diagonally across Kansas then through the state of Oklahoma, and hopefully make it into Texas.  How far into Texas depends on how far we made it on our first day. 

Then on the third day we will drive the rest of Texas and our arrival time will depend on traffic and our starting point that morning.  

WE'RE OFF!  

I WILL POST ALONG THE WAY.

WE ARE FINALLY GOING TO BE TRAVELLING AGAIN!

Seeing as how this blog is called "Travels with Linda and Dan"  it has been rather frustrating to be stuck waiting to get on the road.  

Finally, my medical testing is done.  I even have a letter to get across the border.  Apparently I am going to be radio active for a few days and they will stop me at the border if it's still in my system.  We are hoping to get the results ASAP as we would like to set our departure date for Monday or Tuesday November 16th or 17th. 

Almost everything has been packed up and ready to go for some time.  Now we just have a few last minute details to see to.  

The contents of my freezer will go in my cooler and we have to buy some dry ice to go over it.  Then I have to empty all perishable and salvageable  stuff from the fridge and put it all into the Kool-atron. 



READY TO ROLL!


 

MY TESTING IS UNDERWAY

Well the first days testing is over and that wasn't so bad after all! I was rather nervous and tense the first day, not knowing what to expect.  From where to park, to what are they doing to me now?  

 

The second day will be much easier and will be much more routine.  The only thing to worry about now is "What will the results be?"  and "What do the results tell them and how soon can I get those results?"  



ALL QUESTIONS THAT ARE UP IN THE AIR

 

LEST WE FORGET

 

Rememberance Day has always been rather sacred to me, but after doing a lot of Ancestry research I have even more reason to keep this day.  

  WWI     James Goodwin

              Gladstone Ewart Baker

WWII    Herbert Baker

              William Baker

              James Baker

              Harold Whittaker

              John (Jackie) Whittaker ...killed in action

              Elmer McLay

            

  

STILL MORE BOAT PROJECTS

Well, seeing as how we are stuck here waiting for medical procedures. we might as well keep busy.  During our spring work on the boat, we realized our mast on Thunderbird had some serious rot problems.  So, we dismantled it to assess the situation.  

It's obvious that the mast is purely decorative.  As we have been without it this whole summer and never really missed it.  The only function it serves is to carry our top white all around light, and our forward facing white light, that is only used for night running and anchoring out, which we never do.  It also has a spar and was originally intended with a manual pulley system to lift a dinghy onto the roof of the boat.  But we have never used it for that either.  We just never trusted it's strength.  Once completed and re-assembled perhaps we will be able to use it for that purpose. 

There was no rot on the spar, so that will simply be re-attached.  We have a new 4X4 post that is now being shaped to replace the original.  Thanks to our son Ken's wood working skills.  We are also adding some length back onto the mast as we are aware that it has been cut down a couple of times. (due to said rot)  It has been suggested by some that we save ourselves some work and do away with the mast and spar.  But real Trawlers were working boats, and conversions,  and I like the utilitarian look of this equipment. 

SO THAT IS THE PROJECT WE ARE WORKING ON NOW, TO KILL TIME.