June 9 Percival, Iowa

VERY stormy day with thunderstorms all around us as we drove. It was like a 4th of July celebration but yet a bit scary at the same time. No where to go for cover so you just keep driving, even as at one time the hail and moisture almost totally blocked our visability. Finally drove out beyond it and located the friendly truck stop we had chosen for our over night.

Couple hours later the thunder storms caught up with us forcing us to "pull in our wings" and hunker down for a stormy night. "Pull in our wings" is our new term for when we are forced to pull in our slide outs for fear of wind damage to the awnings that stretch out over their tops. No one has really instructed us to do this but once the canvas starts flapping we just figure "better safe than sorry".

And then there was the time in Bend (early this past May) when we woke up with snow on top of the slides and found that it rolled up in the awnings if you tried to pull them in. Glad the coach is laid out in such a way that it is liveable even with the slides in.

Another productive day towards our destination, Linda