No Dorothy, we are still in Kansas after two days on the road. With the prospect of some nasty weather predicted for today, we stopped in Wellington, KS last night. We did have a minor thunderstorm around midnight and woke to some rain, but the weather maps told us we would probably avoid the real bad stuff if we were on the road before 9am, and we were. The storms seemed to generate from Wellington and really pelted Wichita most of the day and hit Coldwater KS with heavy rain a few hours after we went through there. Our afternoon was sunny and very pleasant and we reached Oakley with only a dead car battery to recharge and have checked.
Your prayers worked and God was definitely on the road with us, in and through the weather and other details.
We met a nice couple who helped us with the battery issue, and we are now enjoying the bright sunshine and air conditioning as we rest up for the final leg of the trip to our house in Fort Collins and then on to Cheyenne, Wyoming where we will start the VA medical appointments on Wednesday and Thursday. Karen has done really well behind the wheel. The meds and vitamins seem to be working and I have been saved from having to do any driving, so far. There's nothing like driving a 31,000 pound motor home with a 4500 pound car in tow, to cure what has ailed Karen the past few weeks. Hopefully this latest round of "drugs" has helped her "turn the corner" and will keep me from having to turn any corners.
West of Medicine Lodge, KS (home of temperance advocate Carrie Nation from 1889 to 1902) we drove through some non-Kansas-like countryside. While most of Kansas is very flat and non-descript, this area (the Gypsum Hills) is almost like parts of Arizona or Utah, with mesas, deep gullies, fir trees, rolling hills and lots of sage brush-looking vegetation. Unfortunately, there was a major grass fire in March of this year which ravaged over 400,000 acres of this area and parts of northern Oklahoma. It was sad to see the results of the fire, smell the burned grass and trees, but encouraging to see that there is new growth and a beginning of the rebirth of a large, and unique area.
Thank you, all, for your prayers as we travel, for your friendship and concern for our health and well-being. We are so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family. You are in our prayers, as well, as we all serve where and as we are called. God is Good and we trust Him for our present and our future and thank Him for our past. To Him be all honor, glory and praise.
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