Ah, what a view!

                                    Our view of culverts, chain link fence and 55 gal. barrels

We are spending over a week in the beautiful City of Gowrie RV Park.  The ambience is scintillating, right up to the stray cats, and the city municipal storage area out our back windows.  Piles of dirt and gravel, culverts, chain link fence rolls and gates, and 55 gallon drums (hopefully empty).  The view pretty much sucks, but it is cheap, ($10 a night) and close to daughter Erin's house ...actually only 3 blocks.  Oh, I forgot to mention that one edge of the park butts up to the railroad tracks so we are about 80 feet from the thundering iron horse lugging ethanol tank cars!!!

Visiting Erin's family is a lot of excitement and fun.  Never a dull moment with 4 kids, 3 cats and 3 dogs in the house.  We have introduced them to Settlers of Catan, and that has spawned some really late night gaming.  It has been great to see the grandkids again.

We have had really nasty weather here, with hot and humid days, lots of rain and severe thunderstorms.  We bailed out of the RV one night after midnite for the possible safety of Erin's basement.  80% chance of rain today too.  Lots of little lakes at the RV park.

We are getting close to Matt's arrival from Colombia South America!  He is flying up here in 8 days.  Excited to see him, and we have planned an Alaskan cruise with him and his girlfriend Nohora also from Medellin, Colombia.  We are pumped, as we have not done a cruise for several years, and it should be great fun with Matt and Nohora.

                                A fellow "RVer" (somewhat permanent) at the Gowrie RV Park