July 5, 2007

July 5, 2007

Progress

Most of the day was spent sleeping. After another late night driving we slept in to about 4:00pm. We cleaned up a few things and hit the road again. The weather was cool enough for us to drive in daylight hours, so we began our transition out of nocturnal life by driving during the day. It was new feeling, not having to use our headlights at first.
Our next goal is to meet up with the Providence youth group in Kansas. They have been in Colorado for the past week and are also starting their way back home. Our may intersect at Oakley, Kansas. If we do meet up, Mike will be riding home with them. Mike has a job interview and has to leave us again. With an actual destination and time frame ahead of us we made great time on the road.
Although we started in daylight hours we drove late into the night, about 12 hours. We covered almost 450miles and made it into Kansas. It was one of the longest single traveling days yet. The fact that we haven’t broken down facing east yet, progress is much faster.
Other than the great progress we made, not much else happened today. New stashes of fireworks are surfacing and being launched again. More burn marks on the furniture, our clothes and skin. So far the ride home is going much smoother than the one out here. We’ve worked the kinks out of Helen. She’s working better everyday.

Mike’s cousin Josh, you have left him a few voicemails, he wants to call you back but doesn’t have your number. Call back and leave a number, thanks.

Winnebago Guys, from the desk of Aaron Tubergen
Liberal, Kansas
4257 miles driven,
roughly 655 gallons of gas later, we’re in Kansas again