Wild Trip West

We got a nice rain on Sunday which allowed us to leave the farm on Tuesday, June 13th without a lot of dust getting into the coach. The trip out to Dodge City, KS was uneventful and quite enjoyable with no wind to contend with and clear sunny weather. Once we arrived at the campground and started to set up everything, I discovered that I had not packed the Internet Modem! I had everything else, even the electrical cord to it. It is an example of "Old Timers" disease!

We contacted Doug who looks after the property while we are absent and asked him to go out and get the modem and mail it to us. We recieved it the next day and all was well, except for the high winds that day. The antenna was kept down so as to keep it from being blown off of the top of the coach!

Thursday we headed out on our way towards Colorado. The entire trip had some wind to contend with and at about Lamar, CO we were hit with a huge gust of wind from the south and the wind increased. At that time our front right windshield began to seperate from the coach at the top right corner! We put the flashers on and limped on into La Junta, CO at 35 MPH until we got to the KOA campground.

The campground recomended a glass company and when we called them they came right out and replaced the window in a very professional manner. The worker took extra pains to make sure the job was done right and that was a pleasant surprise at that stage of the trip.

No sooner than the window was reinstalled we were again hit with a huge wind storm! It knocked down trees, blew out store fronts, etc. I would have to say it was a micro burst and the speed of the wind was in excess of 90 miles per hour! There was an enormous dust cloud with the wind and then a light sprinkle of rain! That fixed the wash job I had done on the coach before we left Kansas!

Friday we drove over to La Veta, CO in a light rain and arrived without further drama!