The Kansas City Gangster Tour was a lot of fun. Lots of mostly factual history of the period from 1920 to the mid 30’s. The bus ride never pauses between the dialogue from the lead gangster and the driver who is party to the action along with the interactive video. The only time anyone left the bus was when the “guide” got off to reenact a murder scene with multiple participants all by himself. We were all hysterical by the time he got back on the bus. It was 90 minutes of fun and history mixed together. 

We took a day to clean the coach and for me to attend a hybrid Board Meeting at Jojoba Hills. We took off down the road this morning in the face of storm warning, wind and under 5 hours later with fuel and lunch we settled in to a lovely Boondockers Welcome site with a lovely gravel pad and electricity. They are friendly people, as we would expect, The pad is alongside a barn. Since there is a threat of rain we disconnected the car and backed it into the site and then backed the coach up to it so I could reconnect it to be ready in the morning to roll without going out in the rain to set it up.

This travel style is limiting our time to follow the news. While we are rolling we mostly are listening to audio books or other favorite shows. Of course once we stop we do catchup and morning is usually NPR and NYTimes with breakfast. 

Several days have passed. We moved on to Lake Haven Retreat, outside Indianapolis where we met Terry Lovenheim and went out to dinner. We had a long pleasant talk over dinner and and returned to the coach to prepare for another travel day.

This day found us at Alton RV outside Columbus OH. We have stayed at this park in the past to visit with Lee Cherney. Just a reminder, Lee was at TBK Sunday School with Carol and me going back to 1st or 2nd grade. Later we ended up at Brown together where we were roomates for 2 years, one year in the dorms and senior year in an apartment with Jon Kerner of blessed Memory. We have stayed in touch all these years. 

Although we were within 8 hours of Rochester we decided not to rush back yet. We are spending two nights in Erie PA KOA before completing our exporations with the aforementioned trip to tour Fallingwater and Kentucky Knob, two Frank Lloyd Wright homes. After those tours we expect to take two days to get back to Rochester. This should land us in the apartment on Saturday April 27. 

That will terminate our immediate travels in the motorhome and leave us two trips in the car to Boston and to Providence two weeks apart with a graduation in Rochester in the middle of the sandwich. 

The coach has been running fine so far and Carol has been taking her two hour shifts with aplomb. The audio books and other entertainments help the miles fly by.

Watch for posts from family travels coming soon.