And the rain...

July 27 – Saturday – 9:39 a.m.

“And the rain, rain, rain came down, down, down.” W. the P.   It started about 2:30 this morning and kept it up pretty steady until about 8:00.  That is when the men decided to get up and head for the road.  It is now a little later and raining again.  The campground host just stopped by and said that it was suppose to start up any minute again and sure enough while we were talking it started.  I managed to get the tent down although things are packed up wet.  ‘Packed up’ this morning means shoved in to a plastic bag until the sun comes out again.  Somehow I’m seeing a motel in our future tonight.  We were planning on another city park tonight.  Not my favorite place to be but as I keep telling them, they make the decisions and I follow.  We’ll see what happens.

Normally I would be following the guys on the route but lately there have been so many twists and turns on narrow county roads, and so many route changes that I’ve taken to I-81 and meeting they at their destination.  I’ll do that again today but then backtrack until I find them to make sure all is okay since it is raining.

My hat is off to anyone who drives alone in new and different territory.  I find it very difficult to watch the signs, watch the traffic, read the map and enjoy some of the scenery by myself.  To say I sometimes pull off a lot to check the map, etc. would be an understatement.

We had a first last night.  Jack decided that he wanted a campfire.  He bought the wood from the campground host.  He stacked the wood very ‘boy scoutish’.  He lit the fire.  The kindling burned very nicely.  That was about it.  He worked hard but it difficult when the wood is so very green.  What seemed to give it life were some pistachio nut shells.  We had the nuts in the car since the beginning of the trip but I guess their mission was fulfilled last evening.     Did I mention that it was about 72* last evening when Jack made the fire?   Jerry, Jeff and I enjoyed it from about 10 ft. back.  Jack insisted that it was cool enough to watch it up close.  Oh, Jack…!