Happy Mothers Day! - May 8, 2011

View of the day-Al can't wait to start driving the cart...while we took a pit stop in Sterling, ND. Actually he was in the 'phone booth' where it was quiet to talk on the cell.

No report yesterday due to technical difficulties. Marilyn's main laptop is getting repaired, so we had to take Al's WindowsXP laptop and it refused to recognize the camera card, so...no pictures, no blog.

We made Gettysburg, SD yesterday and after getting parked, fueled and checked in, we were ready to call it a day. Al talked to our main farmers here...two 85-ish year old brothers and we had always known that it would happen sooner or later...they rented out their land and were finally retiring. Renting for $90/ac...not a bad way to go...they still have cattle to keep busy with, but it looks like we will be restructuring come July.

We left Gettysburg this morning just before 8am and it didn't take long before we were fighting a strong SE wind...all the way to Kansas. Al never did get in the tall one and we were lucky to average 40mph for the day...but we still managed to get 480 miles covered and made it to Hays, KS. And talk about mild temperatures...the truck temp gauge showed 101 degrees!

We got into Hays after parking the Freightliner at the truck repair place north of town and while Al got cleaned up, Marilyn got fuel and supper after running into Walmart to get a memory card reader for Al's laptop. Back at the motel Al was listening to his hockey game while Marilyn found the laundry room and got that job taken care of, before finally getting online to find out what has been going on in the world.

It is nice to finally see leaves on the trees and fields looking lush and green...so far, at least...a FAR cry from the big snow we had at home last week.

Tomorrow we head for Oklahoma...same wind...same heat...