This trip started September 2^nd and has been very wet thus far… 

One night en route to Tulsa, we had some pretty heavy rain in Arkansas... Pat and I watched the water rise around us but fortunately it only got a few inches deep. There were tornado warnings all around but we are fine. It is hard to tell where you are on TV weather maps when you are travelling. We don't always know what county or city we are in...

We had a wonderful time in Tulsa and then stayed a few days with church members, Terri and Janice, parked at their horse farm where they had hook-ups for the RV. They were great company.  It has rained every day of this trip... first we were trying to outrun Gustav, then major rain that came in from the west, now Ike is going to dump more rain on the mid-west! What is the deal?

We left Terri and Janice's place on Thursday morning and had to disconnect our RV in pouring rain... Pat, of course, still looked cute... wet, but cute... I looked like a wet cat... not pretty... but wait… there's more. We drove to Wichita with a small detour to Pawnee OK for fun. Overnight, the rain storm caught up with us... It rained hard ALL night... really hard. So we woke to flood warnings and road closures due to flooding. I looked at Pat and said... "We gotta get the heck out of Dodge". And once again we unhooked our RV in pouring rain... don't ask, it wasn't pretty!

We didn't have any closed roads on our route but we sure saw plenty of flooding!

We stopped at a Wal-Mart just outside of our destination in Topeka, KS... and guess what? It was again pouring rain but, since we don't have a car, we needed to get supplies for the weekend before arriving at the church... so you guessed it! We are wet again! But we are here in Topeka and don't have to drive anywhere for a few days... and yes, it's still raining.