“Ensconced in Elkhorn Ridge”
Spearfish SD.
It’s snowing…
It was a mix of snow and rain for the last two hours of driving.
Since I’ve gotten older and wiser, I absolutely hate driving in the rain. Especially with the rig.
I can ‘feel’ the trailer slide in curves, and my truck by itself has a ‘light ass’, I’ve gotten it ‘sideways’ on three different occasions. While I can drive well, getting sideways in it, can make you get religion.
Pictures: you can see the snow in the second picture
“Ensconsed in”
Kimball South Dakota.
At a “Love’s” truckstop ‘RV Spot’.
Not one we will use again. This one has only electric. They usually have at least water and electric, sometimes sewage.
We carry 15 gals of water or so in our Fresh Tank, just to flush the toilet if we have to stop and use our bathroom. That’s the nice thing about dragging your house around, you are only an exit or parking lot from safe clean toilet facilities.
I bought a jug of water to make coffee in the morning.
A word about ‘wind’.
Those of you who’ve never traveled on the northern Great Plains do not know what ‘wind’ is.
My southern and midwestern friends if here, would swear a tornado was coming. No, it’s just ‘The wind sweeping down the plains’. My beautiful bride just queried;
“You don’t think it will tip us over, do you?”
“No dear.”
Not because I’m sure we won’t get blown over, there’s just not a damn thing I can do to stop it.
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