DAY 4: Rain, Rain Go Away.....

July 7, 2011 - Manitou Springs, CO

TEMP:  70 Degrees (high)

The address all our Colorado friends can send their "rain" checks to is:   

Pikes Peak RV Park

320 Manitou Avenue

Manitou Springs, CO 80829

At the Wal-Mart

Here's the deal........

Colorado is in the middle of a severe drought.....but thanks to Chuck and Liz, and the fact that their only means of transportation is a motorcycle and a 40' RV, we are single-handedly responsible for ending this drought.  

Yep, that's right......hasn't rained in months around here........until we pull into town.  Now, not only are they no longer in a drought, they're flooding.  Happens every time we get on the trike.  Like I said last year when the same thing happened to us, we are seriously considering leasing ourselves out to drought-stricken areas.....

Anyway, we did see a short break in the clouds this morning which gave us just enough time to make it to Wal-Mart to get Chuck his beloved chocolate milk and a drill bit.  We made it there okay......we just didn't make it "back" in time......Picture if you will.........rain pelting your head; on-coming cars hitting LARGE puddles of water just as they get to you.....you doing a slow-motion duck of the head to avoid a direct hit in the face...all the while you hear the words "ohhhh nooooo" coming from your mouth.  Yep, that's pretty much how it all went down.

Now.....on to the drill bit.  Since we had a bit of time on our hands back at the RV park, what with the rain and all, Chuck decided this was a good time to hook up his wireless headphones to the TV.  These headphones are the kind for hard-of-hearing folks who turn the TV up to where the neighbors complain. This is a blessing, not only for the neighbors, but for his wife as well.  It means I can now take the cotton out of my ears when watching Bill O'Reilly.  

View from the Dashboard

Turns out it was a little more difficult that he originally thought.  He worked; and he worked; and he worked....He positioned me on the dashboard holding the cables while he fished them thru the newly drilled hole (that's how I got this picture); he accidently dropped the cable box onto the RV horn which woke everyone up in the RV park who had been napping.......it was a long afternoon.

But I am happy to report......SUCCESS!  

And my sinus headache??  Well.....let's just say its not much better.......