Today started out pretty wet - we woke up to a light sprinkle that fairly quickly turned into a drenching downpour. Not such a good situation with a leaky windshield gasket and several hours of soaking rain ahead. A couple of hours into the trip my radio started doing wierd things and I noticed a faint burned electronics smell, so we pulled over at a station that had an overhang. Fortunately the stereo was the only casualty, but it came back to life a couple of hours later after the rain subsided and everything dried out a bit.
Today's venue was the Heartland Park Raceway in Topeka, Kansas. Once the rain let up, which was well in advnce of our arrival, the day was cool and overcast - a rarity in June. We both still got sunburned, though. The tour had set up for folks to do "fun runs" at the drag strip, but the tech inspection prior to the run and the probable embarassment of being the slowest car on the tour kept us from making our own run.
The lighter side of the news is that although the drive across Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas majorly sucked because of the rain, by the time we got to Iola, Kansas, the rain had let up and we were able to visit some old haunts...
Dad used to pastor a Nazarene Church in Yates Center, Kansas - yeah - I know - a bit coincidental, but anyways, it gave us a good chance to reminisce and tell old stories. We stopped and took pictures of some familiar places, and did some narrative remembering. Overall, it was a good day. We decided to get a jumpstart on tomorrow's travel, and cancelled our hotel in Topeka, and drove to Ottawa, Kansas to surprise his sister and niece with a visit. His neice, Diana, lives in Ottawa, and his sister lives about 15 miles away. Diana was actually shopping at Wal-Mart, so we stopped there to find her. It was a short, and impromptu family reunion.
So the 2008 Power Tour is done, at least for us. Tomorrow holds a LONG trip back to NW Arkansas, to drop Dad off, then back to OKC for me.
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Total miles today: 310
Tank 1 - 101 miles/5.3 gallons - 19mpg
Tank 2 - 177 miles/9.1 gallons - 19.7mpg
Good stuff!!!
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