Friday, July 4, 2008

Ho Hum Down the Long Road Home

Passing through Kansas was almost dangerous. The drivers are getting worse!
The scenery is flat, the further east we go, we were seeing more trees.
All the time we have been on this trip, I'll see a billboard for a store or catch sight of one that I'd like to shop in only to see it after we have passed the exit or it's way too early to be open.
The one unexpected sight was rice fields in Arkansas. We passed by Memphis, through Tupelo and another visit to Hobby Lobby. Then Frank decided he had earned a side trip to Biloxi for the casinos and we'd still get home by Wednesday evening.
On a quarter slot machine, I won $360; on a 9-line penny machine, he won over $500. Then we parked in one of the casino parking lots for the night. There was a slight breeze but because of the lights in the lot, we had to have the blinds drawn. Then a trucker pulled up right beside us (he had his choice of four other parking lots!) and ran his engine all night while he slept in comfort with a/c. Never, never again will I sleep in the camper without a/c if the temperature is not going below 60 degrees! In fact, I didn't get any sleep. Frank said he started to move the RV but thought the guy was going to turn it off after a little while.