Monthly Archive for April, 2008

Made it

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I don’t think I mentioned this earlier, but it’s probably obvious that I didn’t get to take the RV to California.  I didn’t have time to get the furnace and water heater working… and a hot shower is something I couldn’t live without for long.  Plus, after much searching, I had a hard time finding a decent RV park to set up.  Nearly all those I contacted require the RV be 10 years old or newer.  Since my beast is an ‘83, it doesn’t quite qualify. Ugh!  So, she will sit back home in the driveway until I figure out something. 

Anyway… I made it to California. I finally posted some pictures I took during the drive, including those from Greensburg, KS. 

That’s one heckuva long, exhausting drive.

Driving to California

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I meant to post earlier, but I’ve been busy driving.  Ugh.  So far, it’s been rather boring.  I left Tuesday afternoon and managed to get as far as Concordia, MO, which is about an hour east of Kansas City. Today, I got as far as Dalhart, TX. 

When I left, I expected my GPS to follow a similar route as what I looked up on Google which would take me south through Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona.  I didn’t notice until I got to Junction City, Kansas that instead the GPS was going to take me across Colorado and Utah, then down through Las Vegas.  I decided I didn’t really want to go that way, so I went as far as Saline, then turned south on 135.  The GPS argued for me to make a U-turn for about 45 minutes before it finally gave in and recalculated the route to take me through Witchita.  I really want to drive through NM and AZ as I’ve never been there before.

On the road today as I was almost through Kansas, I noticed a sign for the World’s Largest Hand-Dug Well in Greensburg, KS.  I needed to stretch my legs anyway, so I thought that would be a good attraction to stop and see.  I waIs shocked to find that the establishment was in shambles.  Then I looked around and noticed the whole town seemed to be under construction.  I mean… there were very few buildings standing.  On my way out of town, I noticed a sign referring to tornado clean-up… and that’s when it hit me.  You can read more about Greensburg at Wikipedia.

The other thing that has made this trip a little more interesting is that last night at the hotel I hunted for some GPS tracking/mapping software.  I tried 3D-Tracking but after using it for a day, I don’t like it much.  But tonight I found a new one, Reperion.  So far, I kinda’ like it.  It has too many features for me to worry about playing with right now, but knowing it has live tracking via GoogleEarth in addition to GoogleMaps, MapQuest, Yahoo!, etc is intriguing.  You can follow me for this trip using this link as I think it’s the easiest.  If you turn on ‘breadcrumbs’ you can see where I took the GPS outside as I walked around the motel.  You can read more at the site and, if you have GoogleEarth, give it a shot.

So, anyway… tomorrow I hope to get a few hours past Flagstaff, AZ so I can get to LA early in the afternoon on Friday and have some time to chill.