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Well we made it to Michigan (to my wife's sister's house) last night about 8:00pm. The original plan was to make it by the late afternoon but we had so much rain on Monday coming across Kansas that we had to stop outside of Kansas City, KS, due to the rain. We had hotel reservations in Columbia, MO, but had to cancel them and find a hotel near where we had to pull-off the interstate, so that meant we had to drive an extra 120 miles on Tuesday. Coming through Eastern Kansas it was raining so hard that it was almost a complete 'white-out' and the trucks were not slowing down for anyone (it was amazing that we've not seen a single accident so far). Then on Tuesday morning the rain was just as bad. We had to stop three times for 20-30 minutes each time to let it pass by. The problem was that the storm was moving in the same direction as we were going and so we would just end-up driving back into it over and over again. We never really got out of it until we turned North toward Michigan when we got to Indianapolis.

Anyway, other then the weather, we've had a good trip so far. We had a good visit with my cousins in Colorado Springs (but it rained there as well) and managed to check off one more Presidential Library when we stopped in Abilene at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum for about an hour (during a let-up in the storms). It was too early in the morning, and besides, it was raining really hard, to even consider stopping at the Truman Library in Independence, MO yesterday morning.




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Off on vacation...
By: oldCADuser
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Thu, 02 Jul 15 9:33 AM
Msg. 13920 of 65535

My wife and I leave early tomorrow morning for 18 days of vacation. We're driving back to Michigan for my 50th high school reunion next Saturday, the 11th. Our first stop will be Gallop, NM and then for the holiday weekend we're stopping at my cousin's, who lives in Colorado Springs. We should be to Michigan by Tuesday evening. On that Friday we head 'up North' to where my wife and I grew up and went to school. We start back to SoCal on Thursday the 16th. We can do the trip in 3 days but we're going to take it easy and so I'm allowing 4 days, with stops in St. Louis, Oklahoma City and again Gallop before arriving home on Sunday the 19th. Then I leave that Saturday, the 25th, for Brazil.

I catch you all on the way and perhaps will post some pics from along the way.


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