Ahhhhh.. Cooler temperatures, but an increase in humidity. I guess you can’t win them all.
We woke up to a sunny, but cooler day. It was tempting to switch off the A/C, but the outside humidity dictated otherwise. After breakfast we headed off to the local hardware store to get the fittings I needed for the plumbing job. Problem was, there was no hardware store, there was a closed down hardware store, but that wasn’t too much use! We came back to the trailer and searched the web for another store (who would have thought that getting plumbing fittings could be so difficult!)
The nearest store was in Paola, about 12 miles away, so off we headed. This area seems far more prosperous than recent places we have been to, many large houses on 1 acre + lots, with well kept grounds.
Finally …… success, I got the fittings I needed, in addition we discovered that Paola was an interesting old town town with a central square dating back to the mid 1800’s. It also has a well known BBQ shack… we’ll be going back.
After lunch I installed the new faucets while Lyn went to do the laundry, evidently this is the cheapest place we have discovered on this trip at $2.25 to wash and dry the load.
We took a wander around the campsite, which seems to have a mixture of semi-permanent residents and weekly visitors with very few one nighters.
The grounds are quite well laid out, despite the Kansas heat, with flower gardens and a large fishing pond / lake.
Late afternoon was spent sitting under the awning as a thunderstorm tracked by us! Tomorrow we’re off for a tour around the tri-State area of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri.