Recap

Now that we are back in Longview, I wanted to offer a recap of our trip to Pender, NE.  800 miles each way!  But it only turned out to be from Sat-Wed, we cut off a whole day thanks to the people at Blue Ox.  We found out we are so, so spoiled to travel with all our stuff and sleep in our own bed, and mostly eat our own food in the motorhome as opposed to traveling in a vehicle, sleeping in hotels, and eating, some good and some bad, in restaurants.

So off we go.

Cloudy and cold

We spent the first night in Bartlesville, OK, and several miles north of there we stumbled upon this.

We had no idea they started in Kansas

Their "little house"

Getting tired

It stayed very cold, but clear.  It was a much prettier ride than we had anticipated, lots of rolling hills, and of course tons of farming, fields as far as you could see.

Into Nebraska

A pretty sunset as we roll, finally, into West Point, NE
the nearest hotel 18 miles south of Pender

We drove into Sioux City, IA for lunch the first day, and even saw a movie, then we drove to Norfolk, NE for lunch the second day, about 50 miles from Pender for each one!  But they finished up a whole day early so we were able to head back south by 2pm on Tuesday.  Made it to Topeka for the night, then off at 0530am yesterday to get back to Longview by 4pm.  Very pleased with the work and the baseplate and our new tow bar!  But our new truck, not quite a month old already has 4300 miles!!!! And we still have to drive over to Dallas tomorrow for a meeting, 140 miles each way.  But things will calm down when we get to Florida, and hopefully give the truck a rest:-)

Our new baseplate, hard to see which is good!
The round holes on either side is where the tow bar connects,
and the wiring light kit on the chrome socket in the middle.
The real goods are behind the bumper.

We are now enjoying 70 degree weather, really nice after teens in Nebraska.  Looking forward to an early Christmas celebration with the grandkids, then off to get our brake system installed on Monday and on to sunny Florida!