I can't believe how fast time goes and now we are back in Winnemucca!

May 16th...Today we drove Don to Nashville and said goodbye...Ken and I had a great drive back to his house and we leave tomorrow.  

Clarksville TN water tower

Just a barn I liked in TN

Looking out over the deck in Paducah KY

May 17th...We got up and decided to go to the Cornersville Truck Stop..great breakfast..I was bad and had their biscuits and gravy which was really good. We went back to Don's and took our time getting ready and left about 12..We only had about 160 miles to go and ended up at the Paducah KOA..we had stayed there in 1985 when the kids were small and we took our cross country trip. We got a Kamping Kabin but were a little upset as I believe they charged us $10.00 more than what the book said..when I mentioned it to the little old lady, she said oh that one is taken...gee, why did it have that price just a few hours before?! It was a nice stay though..not many people there yet this time of year.  


May 18th... 
We wanted to stay at this KOA so it would be close to this breakfast place I went to several years ago with my volunteers.  It was in Aurora KY a place called Marquitas..well we found it, but guess the saying "You can't go home again" is true as I was very disappointed in the biscuits and gravy...years ago it was the best I've ever had in a restaurant.  So off my bucket list..


Had a beautiful drive through a corner of illinois and then through Missouri..Never realized Missouri has so many people!  The highway never thinned out but it was still a nice trip.  We stayed east of Kansas City MO at the KOA in Oak Grove.  This is a beautiful campground.  People very nice and they had a lot of campers there.  These people take a lot of pride in their campground.  
May 19th...
Got up and headed for Kansas..nice drive through Kansas City..it wasn't a work day and we got through there early so it was nice to look at. 


JAMIE SUMMERLIN and THE WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT

Turned right on highway 181 and took the "back roads"..they were beautiful and very open.  We were looking for "our" Marine, Jamie Summerlin, he is running across America in support of Wounded Warrior Project.  We have been following him since we saw him and his rv in Winnemucca a couple of months ago.  We found him new Lake Wawonda and Cawker KS.  He was running down the road and we pulled over and he stopped and we talked for a minute!  Then his wife and two kids passed in the rv so we followed her till she stopped and donated a little money to the cause and $20.00 for burgers or something.  This is one special little family and we are so happy we got to meet them!!

Jamie in Kansas

Jamie and the WWP RV

Jamie and us 

The biggest ball of twine in America! Now we've seen it all!!

We left them and then came up Cawker, KS and saw the biggest ball of twine in America!! Love it!




This drive today was my favorite! This is how I like to travel the back roads of America!  

We continued on to Gothenburg NE where we stopped at the KOA and spent the night.  It was raining and a little thunder, great night!  This is a very nice KOA not many people here either.


May 20th 
Another drive on the freeway, a long one.  On the way we came across a rest area that we know we must have seen before but we don't remember.  They have a beautiful statue of Abraham Lincoln!  He is my favorite, so I know we would have oticed him as he has been there since 1969. 
We spent the night at the Rock Springs WY KOA in a Kabin.  It was nice, but the campground is full of a bunch of locals..this was a Sunday, so we thought come Monday morning they would all get up and go to work...NOT.  Don't know if this is how people live in areas of Wyoming...but we saw alot of that going through Wy...
May 21st...
We thought we were gonna spend the night in Wendover NV at the KOA there but in looking at the mileage, we decided to just go ahead and head for Winnemucca.  Good thing too, as we were going through Wendover just after 12.  We stopped in Elko for a nice Mexican Lunch.  La Fiesta makes great food! The service sucks as they only had one server for probably 50 people!  We were about ready to get up and get out when the guy asked us what we wanted.  It's too bad really, as the food is delicious but the service will keep us from going back there again.


Drove into Winnemucca and made a quick stop at Raleys.  Had leftover Mexican for dinner and called it a night.  Then we get into bed and Ken notices the sheets had been chewed on YUKKKK...we've never had a problem here before but it looks like we have a mouse...
May22nd
Piddled around the trailer this am then went into Winnemucca, just to make some bank stops, Lunch at our favorite place  Las Margaritas, where service is wonderful and then Raleys for meds I forgot to pick up yesterday...Laundry too.  Back out here, Ken has labwork at 0800 then we'll head to Sacramento to see the grandkids this weekend and celebrate Memorial Day.