Interim Post on leaving Canada

The border crossing was less stressful than last year, but one of the guards was very rude. The guard who searched our unit did not detained us long,

Our first cross border gas was $3.09/gallon. It is neat that our RV is of the vintage that it still registers gallons and miles. Our journey will take us straight down Highway 281 to the Gulf Coast.

The first night we stopped at Aberdeen, N.D. In chatting with the lovely lady who was doing housekeeping, she advised that her mother had lived in Canada. She said her mother was one of the Dionne quintuplets. WOW!

The second night, Dec. 29th, we stayed at York, Neb. During that day, we traveled over the most awesome bridge I have ever seen, at Yankton, Neb. It spanned the Missouri River. Unfortunately, I was not able to get a picture.

Dec. 30th, we drove through Kansas and Oklahoma, stopping for the night at Perry, Ok. It was not yet warm enough to stay in our motorhome, but there was no snow on the ground for the last hundred miles. At Wichita, we traveled on our very first toll highway ever. It cost us $3.00 to go about 15 miles. Gas varies from $3.09 down to $2.85 per gallon. On Dec. 31st, we stopped for gas at a very small privately owned service station. I am sure we made the owner's day by gassing up there!

All across America, we saw colorful deflated Santa Clauses, reindeer and Christmas trees. In the wind, one Santa was bobbing about, looking like he had fallen and couldn't get up.

We spent New Year's Eve in Texarkana, which was my goal. However, it didn't work out to contact the car club there to see what was happening for New Years Eve. When we asked the desk clerk about a place to go and find some good C & W music to dance to, she said that because it was New Years Eve, all the clubs or whatever would be catering to the young crowd and playing rap music, so we immediately lost interest in partying. Went to the IHOP next door for supper and spent a quiet evening in the motel room, where I was finally able to get onto the internet.

Connecting to WI-FI with my laptop has been a constant frustration, as well as finding a proper telephone which would take my international phone card.

It was really neat, on New Years Eve, to be able to walk to the IHOP with no jacket on.