July 13 track

This was a long day of driving pulling the trailer. And it was 102 degrees. If you look at the elevation scale, you'll notice that Kansas isn't really flat. It's a ramp. Uphill the whole way. This was also the day that the thunderstorm chased us out of our scheduled stop at Wakeeney (as mentioned before). I've seen The Wizard of Oz, and Kansas has these things called tornados that can pick up real houses and transport them to far-away lands. I had no desire to stick around to see what might have happened to our travel trailer.

So we kept driving on to the next KOA in Goodland, Kansas. We were watching for other campgrounds, but didn't see any that looked worth stopping for. Mostly the kind that advertise with sheets of plywood with "CAMP HERE" spray-painted on them. I'm sure some of those are perfectly nice, but at least with KOA you have an idea what to expect. While driving we caught the edges of a couple of thunderstorms. I noticed at first that the wind was coming out of the north, which made sense as the big black scary storm that we were trying to avoid was north of us and reportedly moving straight south. A few miles down the road, I noticed a smaller storm to the south of the highway, and noticed that the wind was coming out of the south. We got some nice fat rain drops from that one that sure made a racket when they hit the truck. I don't think there was any actual hail, although it almost sounded like it for a minute.

It occurred to me that north winds that close to south winds are not a desireable feature in tornado country. So we kept going. Once we got to clear weather, the Goodland KOA was the first campground we saw that we felt like trusting, so that's where we stopped.