July 10-11, 2023
Travel day. We are heading to our first COE (Corp of Engineers) campground. We are going to Minooka Lake (Wilson Lake) in Kansas. Today is the longest drive day. We will be traveling about 7 hours. We had some challenges earlier in the morning. For some reason Trip Wizard started taking us on some questionable routes so I opted to just follow US 24 from Colorado Springs up to Interstate 70. Apparently I missed a couple of turns so I had to keep stopping to get my route straight. And on top of that, I kept getting a “Trailer Brake Disconnected” and “Check Trailer Wiring” warnings. The dinging was driving me nuts. I had just replaced the pigtail before we left Arizona and all was working well. We pulled up to a stoplight. I had the red and some time, so I shut the truck off and after a few seconds restarted it. So I basically rebooted the truck. It worked. No more problems. We pulled into the campground and they had a couple of very cool decorations at the entrance. The campsite was not a pull through but we do have water and electric (50 amp). That means we can run both air conditioners. Definitely need them as the temperature is around 90. Threat of severe thunderstorms for this evening.
Around 10:00PM the wind started to pick up. Like about 60 mph. We have been living in this RV for over a year. This was the worst storm we have experienced so far. It got so bad that we put Ashes in his carrier in case something should happen. We woke up the next day and discovered that we survived without any damage. Nancy enjoyed her time outside before the temperature reached the expected 99 degrees..
