Traveling with three cats and my husband/best friend
We’ve been on the road since July 22. We stayed one night at Missoula, MT; Columbus, MT; Spearfish, SD; Mitchell, SD; and Onawa, IA. Then we stayed two nights at Odessa, MO, before continuing overnight stops at Effingham, IL; Grove City, OH; and Geneva, OH. We arrived at Verona, NY, August 1, 2011, for our week-long stay at the Villages at Turning Stone.
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| Animee |
Animee seems to be enjoying the trip. Even though she quacks like the AFLAC duck when she meows, we think she approves of this traveling lifestyle.
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| Lily |
Lily is our queen bee. She tries to direct our actions all the time from when we get up to feed the cats in the morning to where Rowdy and Animee sleep during the morning and the afternoon. She ends her work day by reminding us to give tiny evening snacks just before bedtime.
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| Rowdy |
Rowdy lounges around most of the time. However, when he hears the motorhome ignition key click on, he runs and hides behind the recliner. Here he is enjoying a sunny day at Henderson Harbor, New York.
We didn't know how officially "Weather Channel" hot it was until we arrived at Odessa, MO. At 8:30 p.m. the park's reader board said 94 degrees. Yikes! That night we worked again with the satellite dish. It has operated correctly ever since we remembered how to connect all the dots and set it up right. So after the Kansas City area, we were able to watch the heat warnings and thunderstorms coming our way. One of us can watch HGTV and the Food Channel, too.
Here are some views from the interstate highway system in every state we traveled through this summer:
Our original plan was to go through Council Bluffs, IA, but the owner of the RV park in Odessa, MO, suggested an alternate route of state highways to avoid the detours caused by the flooding.
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| Flooding along I-29 in Sioux City |
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| Another view of Sioux City flooding from I-29 |