The Wind--Again

April 7, 2010

Driving through Oklahoma and Texas proved to be a rather vexing.

We left Brushy Lake State Park early and stopped at a Love's Truck Stop for coffee, gas and air. I had checked the tire pressure at Brushy lake and the new tires were down a little bit. Being truck tires, they need a high pressure fill, available at a truck stop. When I went to fill the tires, I realized that my nearly new dial air gauge was missing, having evidently left it at the campground, at least a half hour back. We now have a souvenir of Love's Truck Stop, a new air gauge, with a 12" long neck and a red dial indicator, it will never be overlooked.

Then came the wind. Lots of it, 30-40 mph, directly across road. Keeping the tall square van in its lane was work. We were constantly being passed by big trucks and even they were sometimes bounced around as they pulled back to the lane in front of us. We saw several large Class A (the really big bus-type) RVs coming the other way that definitely had a list due to the wind. It lasted all the way across Oklahoma and to Amarillo, Texas, where we stopped for the night.

We spent the night in the RV lot of the Amarillo Cracker Barrel restaurant and have completed the trilogy of well-known free RV overnight stops (Walmart, Flying J and Cracker Barrel)--experiences to be long-remembered.

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