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Monday, June 13, 2011

postheadericon Cheri June-13-11

5:27 PM | Posted by Sharp's Travels
It started to thunder when Gay was about to get into the shower this morning. It rained a little and then cleared off. We thought we were good to go but the thunder began again, along with a light rain as we began closing up. Gay had just got the bike loaded and it began to pour. We both sat in the truck for a bit, hoping the rain would stop. It came down so hard and began to hail. As soon as it let up a little Gay pulled the truck up by the office and finished tying down the bike. Gay was drenched. With the slides in, he could not get to any dry clothes. He put the heater on in the truck, in hopes of drying out a bit.

We drove in and out of rain until 11:15am and the temperature dropped to 62 degrees. When we reached Mexico, MO, there was a detour due to a bridge being out because of the heavy rains. The detour took us into the country on a narrow, windy road for about 15 miles and back onto HWY 19.

We traveled HWY 19 to CTY- H. This was another windy road. We did see a couple of deer along the road side and it began to rain again. We were looking for a place to pull in for lunch, but no luck. We turned right onto US 24 and then merged onto US 61.

We arrived at the Wal-Mart in Keokuk, IA at 2:15 pm. We had planned to spend the night here but found out they did not allow over night campers. We took time to have a sub sandwich in Wal-Mart and then headed out of town about 2 miles to a campground for the night.

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