June 14, 2012

View of the day-The green wheat at Hamill, SD...we will sure have time to get some fixing done while we wait.


We were up early and the hope was AIS by 7:30am...it was, but in a different time zone.  We stopped for fuel at the Leibenthal card lock, then hooked up the pickup header trailer for it's trip north, 367 miles.

The trip was uneventful...a nice change...no breakdowns, no flats, just shut up and drive.  We made Hamill around 4pm, stopped to chat with Cal at the campground and checked out where we would be able to park everything.  Someone had bought the old school yard and put up a hunting lodge, so we were out of luck for parking at the old standby.  Fortunately Cal has a big yard, so we should be able to piece things out and get everything somewhere in town.


We turned and burned, heading all the way back to La Crosse, listening to the weather reports to see when we would run into the rain.  We found it just after Marilyn took over driving at Ansley, NE.  It sprinkled on and off until we hit the brunt of it at the NE/KS border...what a light show.

We hit the showers just after they had moved through and the sun was setting just below the cloud bank, making for an interesting sunset...and an awesome double rainbow...the picture doesn't do justice to it.  The lightning show was just as impressive and pretty close at times.  The rain continued all the way to La Crosse, where we pulled into the campground at 11:15pm...a 734 mile round trip today.  Tomorrow we load.

It's still raining...we sure hope it's a soaker for the area...