Hi All
Sorry to be so long in writing....we just got home from a camping weekend with our old club...has a nice time, but the weather was miserable!!cold and rainy Friday night and Saturday.
It was nice to see all of our old friends again, along with some new ones.
We left South Bend, In. from my brothers driveway last Sunday morning, and after $19.25 in tolls and about 150 miles arrived in our sons driveway. We had forgotten about all the toll ways in Illinois and Indiana.
It is great to see the kids and grandsons after such a long time, and we have enjoyed our visit.
We will leave here on the 7th of May to head to North Carolina for two graduations and visit with Lindas brother, his wife and the three kids....welll not kids anymore.
I am looking forward to the Hank Williams jr. and Lynard Skynyrd concert on the 9th of May. it will be a great time I'm sure. I have been a Hank and Hank sr. fan for a lot of years .
Weather here today is cold and still windy, and the prediction is for snow!!!!! we can't seem to get away from it....

Have a good week and keep in contact....

Jim and Linda

OUR TIME IN TAHLEQUAH

Hi

We are leaving Tahlequah OK. Saturday morning(tomorrow) after a wonderful week here with Bob and BJ. We have had a great time talking over old times, and taking wonderful scenic drives around the area that they love so much.....Today we went to Devils Den state park in Arkansas. A wonderful park down in a valley. Like most areas around here there is a lot of wind and water damage from all of the rains. We have survived some pretty good winds sitting here in our little campground.

The weather does not look good leaving here and heading across Missouri into Illinois and Indiana, but its time to go.

The pictures are of our dear friends Bob and BJ and Devils den, normally the water is just trickeling over the falls, but with the recent weather this is what we saw. Sorry for two of the same, but still having some problems downloading pictures.

Take care

love to ya

Jim and Linda

Hi All
First things first...you can reply to this blog, just click on the comments box and the end of a post and send a message....we love to get feedback.....try it, you make like it.

We are in Salina Kansas now...off of the road early because of the extreme wind that came up about two hours ago from the south (we are heading east) It was a struggle to keep us in our lane. We head south tomorrow towards Tahlequah, OK. Hopefully the wind will go away.

Bye for now
Love to you all, each and every one of ya'
Jim and Linda

Friday April 4th
Amazing day today. We only drove about 250 miles, but we are finally!!!!!!out of the mountains. I know we will regret saying that as we head across Kansas which is totally boring, but....
We did get out of the campground without any trouble and Glenwood canyon is as beautiful as they said it would be....the climb up to Vail pass(10,608 foot) was spectacular, but the road is a piece of shit....so it took away from the beauty as I was constantly worried about blowing a tire and we did hit one pot hole that I thought we would lose the truck in!!!!!
One down grade was 11(count em' eleven) miles of 5 and 6 percent grades....it would have been fine without the ROUGH highway.
But we did survive, with some minor damage inside the trailer, one lamp kind of broke but I think it is fixable.....drawers were open dust came off of the slides...
We are now in Limon Colorado as it was such a stressful day that we stopper early.
We are about 650 miles from Tahlequah and another 800 from Indiana, so lots of driving to do.
I am still having problems getting pictures onto the site. When we download them from the camera onto the computer they do not show up as pictures, just an icon. So it is hard to pick out the ones to post....we will get it figured out eventually with some help from a computer whiz (phil, HELP)
see ya
Jim and Linda

sorry I downloaded by mistake.
finally
END OF GRADE