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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Gay May-28-12
8:02 AM | 
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Sharp's Travels
It being Memorial Day we should all take time to think about our loved ones and friends that have passed before us and thank our veterans for keeping our country safe and free. We were on the road by 9:15 am, not sure why we were early as we only have 150 miles to go for the day. As we were driving today I was thinking about all the people that live in the big cities and how close together they are. Out here in Kansas you can drive miles without seeing anyone, somehow it doesn’t seem to make since. Although it’s nice that we get to see all the undisturbed beauty of the rolling prairie, wheat and corn fields. We arrived in Colby Kansas a little after 12:00 pm. We stopped at a Pilot Service Center to fuel up. The diesel price for credit was $3.759 and cash price was $3.699. We used our Good Sam Pilot/Flying J card for the first time and got the diesel for $3.619, nice savings and no going in and prepaying or using multiple credit cards. We drove over to Wal-Mart where we are spending the afternoon and night. We went into Wal-Mart to get a few groceries and then back to the 5th wheel for lunch. Cheri made a delicious pasta salad for lunch and she also baked a cherry pie, what a gal. We decided not to get the generator out today, so no TV. We read this afternoon and later in the evening we started playing a game of Hand, knee and foot. It was getting late and decided to finish the game another day.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Gay May-27-12
6:53 AM |
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Sharp's Travels
It was a pretty quiet day for us; we lounged around this morning as church wasn’t until 10:30 am. It was good to get back to church as we missed the last two Sundays because we were on the road. We look forward to going to church here in Smith Center, we love listening to the large pipe organ they have. After church we stopped at the grocery store to get a frozen pizza to have for lunch. We tried out the new pizza stone we bought yesterday, boy what a different it made in the crust, it came out nice and brown. Cheri gave me a much needed hair cut this afternoon. Cheri had bought a couple of magazines to read this afternoon. I worked out side for a while getting our water softener regenerated, so we have nice soft water again. When I got done with that I sat down to watch some TV shows that we had recorded, it wasn’t very long before I was asleep. I slept for about an hour and a half while Cheri watched TV. When I woke up we watched a couple of shows and then it was time for me to watch the NASCAR race.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Gay May-26-12
7:35 AM |
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Sharp's Travels
We didn’t have to be anywhere this morning as we got all of our work done yesterday so we could sleep in this morning. I got up at 6:30 am and couldn’t stay in bed any longer. Cheri took advantage of the bed rest; she didn’t get up until 7:30 am. We walked this morning which is something we haven’t done since we left Branson. I also worked out with the weights I have along with us. The motorcycle ride for today was canceled again because of strong winds. We took the truck and drove to Phillipsburg which is 30 mile west of here. We did some shopping there and bought a pizza stone to use in the oven, it’s supposed to make the crust come out better. We were also in an Alco store which we only seen once before and that was when we were here last year. I bought two jars of garlic stuffed olives. I have been looking for them the last six months. We stopped at a bakery shop and we each had a Danish, we were disappointed as they weren’t. I also found some sunglasses I had been looking for, the old ones were pretty scratched up. Then we headed for the little town of Kirwin pretty much just a stop in the road. We had been told about a place called Stone Hard Café. We were told by a guy from the service center that it was a good place to eat and reasonable. We each had an 8 oz prime rib with salad, fresh green beans, real mash potatoes, home baked biscuits, lemonade, and ice cream all for ten dollars each. It was an excellent meal. We eat late this afternoon and so there will be no supper. When we got home Cheri took a nap and I tried to watch the NASCAR race and napped through most of it. The temp topped out at 97 degrees and a really strong wind, feels like a blow torch outside. This evening we watched the last four episodes of Grays Anatomy that we had recorded.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Gay May-25-12
8:12 AM |
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Sharp's Travels
We slept in a little later this morning as we were done with the work on the 5th wheel and all I had to do was check out, so we thought. When I went to put in the kitchen slide it wouldn’t move. I tried three more times and it did go in but with some difficultly on the start up. So I figured I better have them look at it while we are still here. They checked it out and did some cleaning on the startup area. Then it seemed to go in ok. But I think I will still have a problem after it sits out for a long period of time like when we are in Florida for 6 months, I guess time will tell. We moved to a campground about a mile from the service center and will be here until Monday morning, and then if the slide doesn’t go in they can come here to get it in and take it back to the service center. Of course we will have to wait until Tuesday because of Monday being Memorial Day and we have reservations to be in Colorado Springs on Tuesday. It was around 11:30 am when we got set up in the campground. Cheri went right to work washing down everything to get rid of the dust that was created while in the service center. I worked on our dinette table and fixed it so it won’t move when we are traveling. I also restrung one of the day-night shades. So at this point in time our 5th wheel should be like new or better then new because all the bugs are worked out, time will tell. We both are exhausted and tied from the day and turned in early for the night.
I have uploaded pictures of the 5th wheel while it was in the service center. Check on this link https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: 5th Wheel Repair.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Gay May-24-12
8:29 PM |
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Sharp's Travels
Well our motel room wasn’t very nice, more for a worker that would stay for a week at a time. I guess I could tell you more but I think you get my drift. Once again we went to the same restaurant for breakfast and then to the service center. I figured they would be done with the 5th wheel before noon. Wrong again they didn’t come for us to check it out until 4:45 pm. Then I could see they needed to do some more adjusting on the bed room slide. So it was after 6:00 pm when they rolled it out for us. Cheri has to give everything a good cleaning as it is full of dust and some saw dust. Cheri went right to work and got the bedroom done this evening. It sure is nice to be back in our home and have our own bed to sleep in. I did find one more thing that should be fixed and will talk to them tomorrow about it before we leave. We could have gone for a motorcycle ride today as the there was very little wind but we thought we would be leaving here around noon. Long story short we are setting outside the service center tonight and will see what tomorrow brings.
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