HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ONE AND ALL.

Not everyone gets to have Thanksgiving dinner in a service bay on a picnic table. I must say however, that the ladies did a nice job of decorating complete with flowers and candles.

As you might have guessed we are still in Junction City, KS. I had hoped by this time to send you pictures of the new RV. However we are not quite ready to do that. So instead you get pictures of our Thanksgiving companions. There are three couples stranded here during the holidays. We did not do badly however. We had a turkey with all the trimming, washed down with wine and champagne.

But to bring everyone up to date. We left Federal Way on the 13th (fortunately ahead of the snow). Our first couple of days we encountered clear skies and roads. Then we hit Wyoming. As I feared the weather caught up with us there. Wyoming is high. Our campground, for instance, was at 6900 feet. Add to that it has typical plains weather which includes winds which go across the land with no barriers. Well it snowed during the night. Not much just and inch or so. Does not sound bad until you realized it was 20 ish and that the winds were gusting 40+. That is not a good combo when you are pulling 15,000 # behind you. We had to decend a very high and nasty pass between Laramie and Cheyenne. There were warnings for light trailers. We decided we were not light, but we did wait until 10 am before leaving assuming that the road crews would sand and the trucks would clear the roads. That worked for the most part. However, wind and any snow can make for some very restricted visibility. We made it through (very carefully) and were glad we did not wait for another day. The weather did not improve, but got worse. The new truck performed like a real trooper. The rest of the trip was cold, but uneventful. We pulled into Junction City late on the 18th. And here we still are.

The RV was suppost to be ready on the 19th. Well we have been through this before and we knew better. Even so it has been very frustrating. The rig has been in and out of the paint shop several times. When it is there nothing else can occur. Also there was a snafu on the backsplash tile which required the installed tile to be removed. We are currently waiting on the installation of the new tile. While all this is going on in the shop, we wait. The first time the rig was pulled out of the shop was yesterday. That gave us four days to load the RV before it goes back in the shop on Monday. I was very happy not to lose this time. It is going to take me time to figure out where to put everything since the storage space is different. Lots of challenges.

Anyway we did not get the storm that hit the PNW. Our weather here has been cold at night and clear during the day. It actually hit 50 today. I hope it holds. With luck we may make it out of here by next weekend. Our next travel challenge will be NM which is also high. So we do not want snow yet.

Happy holidays to all. We will keep in touch.