Traveling with Martha and Byron: Journey through Kentuckiana to Kissimmee: 10/1

Our trip from Wyoming to our home port at Add-More Campground just north of Louisville in Clarksville, Indiana was not uneventful. Our first night out was spent at the KOA in Rawlins, Wyoming. Yes, it was cool and windy that first night. However, on Monday, October 1, 2017, we had to drive through lots of snow on I-80 until we got to Cheyenne. By “lots of snow” is meant several inches with wind blowing toward the west. However, once we turned south toward Denver, the snow cleared in a matter of miles and, in fact, revealed the grass on the ground.

Upon reaching Denver we turned eastward. Before the setting of sun that evening we encountered thunderstorms and tornado warnings. Imagine, going from heavy snow on one day to terrible storms and high winds 36 hours latter. We had never experienced such extremes before. For that night in WaKeeney, Kansas, we didn’t put our slides out because the wind was so strong. Be the next morning, however, it had calmed down a great deal and the sun showed itself.

Our next stop was in Oklahoma City to visit with members of the Shealy family there. While there we stayed at Twin Fountains RV Resort, a very nice place on the east side of Oklahoma City. From there we headed on through Missouri and stayed one night near Carthage. From there we went to Fairfield, Illinois, Byron’s hometown. On October 7 we arrived at our “interim” home in Clarksville, Indiana which is just across the river from Louisville.

After visits with friends and appointmens with physicians, we headed to Florida twenty-two days later. Yes, it was a brief visit in the Louisville area bet we wanted to get to Kissimmee before Halloween.

While in Louisville, Byron attended the annual Aviation Heritage

event at Bowman Field.

On our first night going south we stayed at Bear Creek in Ashville, North Carolina. It was there that we were parked next to another Newmar Dutch Star. It was a year older than ours but in the paint job of our coach which means it was finished just after the summer retooling break at Newmar’s facility in Nappanee, Indiana.

Sibling motorhomes parked next to each other. Ours has the

Honda Element, our tow vehicle, parked behind it.

From Asheville we traveled on to Franklin Spring, Georgia where we spent the night with Martha’s sister and brother-in-law. From there we traveled to Brunswick, Georgia and an opportunity to have some fresh shrimp. We left Coastal Georgia RV Resort the next day and arrived at Great Oak RV Resort in Kissimmee by 2 PM. This gave us time to clean our concrete pad and pull into place for our winter stay.

Byron, of course, continued with his position working at Walt Disney World in Magic Kingdom at his home locations, Casey’s Corner and Tomorrowland Terrace. Within weeks, he was back to teaching the Hugh Embry Sunday School Class at First United Methodist Church in Kissimmee. Martha was welcomed back by the owner, leaders, and crew at Chick-fil-A in Celebration.