June 28, 2010

View of the day-The pile is building at Glade, Kansas, while they work on the flat storage behind the elevator.

We slept in a bit since Marilyn was up late shopping and Al got hooked in watching The New Two Thousand Mile Harvest video. He had just wanted to watch a couple of chapters of the DVD, but got sucked into the vortex and stayed to the end, and Marilyn got back to the camper around 2:30am from her Walmart visit.

We grabbed a quick breakfast then went out to the bins to hook up the header to the pickup, then head for Stockton, KS. How quickly we forget about our “lets just move on Sunday” thought from the Cherokee move…the highway was pretty busy for a Monday. Once we got to Stockton, we parked at the fair grounds along with several other harvesters…there were trailers and equipment all over the place.

We figured we might as well take a road trip and check a few leads, since we didn’t have anything lined up, so we headed west from Stockton. We were somewhat surprised that we didn’t see very many combines running in the fields, as a matter of fact, some of the fields were still pretty green. We got to Colby and decided to look for a campground…just in case…and found one. It was right along the interstate and almost in the Walmart parking lot…Marilyn was sold on it, even though the nightly rate would have been almost triple what the Cherokee rates were.

We drove north of Colby and stopped to visit a farmer before going north to Atwood to see what was there for parking the camper…unfortunately for Marilyn, there was a spot. After we checked out the town, we started back for Great Bend, stopping in Oberlin at the Pizza Hut for supper…the first Pizza Hut visit in Kansas. We thought we would go back through Phillipsburg to check that highway out and we had to wait for a pilot cart just outside the town, but it wouldn’t have affected a wide load, so we would be fine.

We will be busy tomorrow paying bills, settling up with the farmers, tearing down the camper…although we didn’t even set the dish; who had time to watch anything…before we hit the road and head north.

It was a day of over 400 miles of driving…