Sunday, May 30, 2010

Kansas Bound--Day 11--Home

Another great Monaco America rally is now history. Yesterday was a day to just relax, do a little exploring and another fine meal. We started off in the morning with Judy and Forrest Wagner for the Amish community of Yoder. (We had gone to Yoder the Saturday before but got there after 3:00pm and almost everything was closed.) We explored the old hardware store and some of the other shops. We also checked out Yoder Meats and Gift Shop. This was stocked with many different meats that had been raised on the local farms and many gift items from the local Amish folks.

After a couple of hours of exploring Yoder we headed back to the Fairgrounds in Hutchinson. By the time we returned most of the coaches had loaded up and left. At this point we had seven left in the camp ground. We spent the afternoon resting in the coach with both air conditioners running. In the late afternoon we again joined Judy and Forrest and drove back to Yoder for a great dinner at the Carriage Crossing restaurant. Joanne and I had eaten there the Saturday before and knew how good the food was. We returned to the Fairgrounds in the evening to join to the other "holdover" campers for some ice cream that we had left over from an ice cream social we had earlier in the week as part of the rally.

Finally, this morning around 9:00 we packed up and headed south. After an uneventful drive we arrived back at the house around 1:30. We got the car unloaded and started on the coach but it was just too hot. The thermometer on the back of the house was showing 100 degrees. We got out what was absolutely necessary and then locked it up for the night. Tomorrow is another day and the rest of the stuff can wait. We don't have to completely unload it since we'll be heading out on a new adventure a week from tomorrow.

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