We are still in Chanute. We have been socializing with fellow HitchHiker owners here at the city park. It varies from 2 to half a dozed HitchHikers. I have met two forum members here, Mallo & GlenH. It's nice to actually meet in person someone you have communicated with on the Internet users forum.
We took our HH into the factory service Monday morning EARLY in the RAIN. We were up before 6, broke camp in heavy rain and were at the plant at 7:10. We then went exploring, we visited one of Laura Ingle's houses on the prairie. In addition to the house is a log cabin, small post office & one room school house. We then went to see the "yellow brick road" and Emmit Kelly (the clown) museum. Ha Ha Ha......although the Kansas map and tourist book have both identified we couldn't find any "yellow brick road" (perhaps it blew away with Dorothy & Toto) and the Emmit Kelly museum looked like the last visitor was 25 years ago, then it closed. But as you can see, Judy did find the tin man. We did have a nice drive through the flint hills of Kansas. We spent Monday night in a motel and picked up our home at 2pm Tuesday & returned to the city park. Tuesday morning we toured the NuWa plant. They shut down production in January, are revamping production, service & parts and will resume production in June. About a dozen RV manufacturers (very large ones too!) have gone out of business within the past year due to the economy so we are excited that NuWa didn't join them. We were going to leave today but the weather is bad so we'll stay put & depart for Oklahoma tomorrow. Judy is busy oiling the wood work, I get to do the high parts.
