May 6, 2008

• IDAHO - PENNSYLVANIA - IDAHO

  Arriving home around 4pm Monday evening, we were tired and glad to get home. To sum up our trip to PA. this time. It was a good trip with lots of fun things happening. Kept busy all the time checking card accounts, getting ready for the wedding, picking out gifts, sorting cards, taking inventory, and of course shopping.

  We went from rush hour, in Kansas on interstate 70 consisting of 2 lanes each way, and meeting 27 cars in 5 miles to Baltimore and Washington D.C. where one could meet 500 cars during rush hour, in the same distance. Where 4 lanes of traffic each way was bumper to bumper.

  Gas was priced from 2.99.9 per gallon to 3.77.9 per gallon.

  We stayed in Motels priced $60.00 to $70.00. With our senior discounts. (Don’t you wish you were old?) With everything we took along from Bananas (My daughters Bent and Dent store) we spent an average of $10.00 a day on eats. Of course I’m not counting free room and board at my daughter’s house. We sleep in our motor home, but we eat with Robin. (Robin, being my daughter, we’re not up early enough to eat with the birds) As we traveled we got a good taste of all kinds of weather. Rain, Thunderstorms, Snow, wind, wind, COLD WIND, blowing very, very hard.

  As we traveled through Indiana and Illinois, there were Tornados in Arkansas, tearing up everything in its path and killing some. Kansas City, MO, had a tornado hit and that is too close to Indiana for comfort. We experienced a 12 hour thunderstorm with lightning coming so close to the house we were in that one time we heard a loud bang, the flash of lightning went clear across the porch under the roof. With it was rain and that brought the water up in the creek beside the house about 3 or 4 feet in a couple hours. In fact we went out by the creek and watched the water come up. It was warm in some states and we would roll the windows downs. In a couple hours we saw snow along the road. We got a good taste of global warming and global freezing.

  Over the next few days I plan on posting a diary of our trip. So I can remember each day. You’re welcome to come along if you like. Some of you went along one time when we went to Multnomah Falls. Most of you fell asleep till we got there, this will take much longer.

              WELCOME ABOARD!!

  Our God was very good to us on this long trip. Almost 6,000 miles and not even a flat tire. THANK YOU LORD!! “The Lord thy God is with Thee, whither soever thou goest”

  • 11:54 pm
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