Day 2

The day is ending with strong storms near Davenport, Iowa. Without covers for the Fantastic fan vents, we can’t run the fans while it’s raining and it’s very hot in the RV tonight. We hit a very powerful thunderstorm about 6 miles from where we are staying and had to slow to a crawl, put our 4 ways on and inch along…avoiding the cars and trucks that had pulled off on the berm. We are in for the night and safe.
Today as we came through Champaign, Ill. Linda decided that it would be nice to drop in on her aunt at her lake house. We inputted her address into the GPS system and off we went…north to Loda. Ill. We arrived and had a wonderful time there for a short visit. I enjoyed chatting with Ed, Norma’s friend who is a farmer and still actively enjoys running the combine and the tractors. We hit it off and decided that Norma and Linda just didn’t know how easy they had their young years without the hard toil that goes into growing up on a farm. Ed told us to watch for the windmills as we crossed Illinois and sure enough I saw them, in all their giant splendor, just a short distance from their place. They were wonderful behemoths lazily turning…cranking out power for the area. I loved watching them turn, turn, turn for oh so many miles as we were traveling on the highway.
The windmills came into the picture about the time that Linda got a call from her son that his wife had been admitted to the hospital and would need to have her gallbladder out the following day. Now keep in mind that her son is now working 5 hours away (at Penn College) and is not readily available to come to his wife’s aid. Linda got all the info on what would take place and took care of some family networking while she had her turn as co-pilot. Her daughter-in-law will undergo surgery tomorrow (Thursday) and her son has started the journey home so he will be there before she goes into surgery.
Tomorrow we hope to finish the last leg of the journey to reach Yankton, SD.