This being Sunday, we rose late and spent the morning doing laundry (first of trip), doing crosswords (Marcia, of course), catching up on this blog (those post dates are rarely real), and trying to understand why I’m having such a hard time processing photos and loading them to the blog. No answer.
On a break, I talked with a guy in the middle of a 3-month trip with his 34’ 2003 Airstream. He has actually had three near-catastrophes: A hitch steel rod broke in two; the receiver retaining pin cleaved off; and the receiver weld points broke loose. All three incidents happened at relatively harmless times and were probably brought on by rough roads in Alaska, but he also had the most expensive and supposedly safest hitch out there. I shall double-up my safety checks. Harvey and John are right.
At noon we went to the Truman Presidential Museum & Library ($7 senior), a very smart looking building within walking distance of Truman’s home (we drove, Truman would walk). The Truman library looks nice, feels friendly, and was altogether a far better experience than Abilene’s equivalent for Eisenhower. The Eisenhower Center looked dated – architecture and style were very much of the 1950s, when it began, and the Meditation Center where the Eisenhowers are buried was creepy. The Truman center was dedicated in 1957 but it could as easily have been the 1980s or 1990s – perhaps it recently underwent major renovation? And the Trumans are buried simply and presumably deeply in a grassy courtyard.
Any regrets about Independence? Only that the weekend kept us from taking the factory tour at Moon Marbles.
On a break, I talked with a guy in the middle of a 3-month trip with his 34’ 2003 Airstream. He has actually had three near-catastrophes: A hitch steel rod broke in two; the receiver retaining pin cleaved off; and the receiver weld points broke loose. All three incidents happened at relatively harmless times and were probably brought on by rough roads in Alaska, but he also had the most expensive and supposedly safest hitch out there. I shall double-up my safety checks. Harvey and John are right.
At noon we went to the Truman Presidential Museum & Library ($7 senior), a very smart looking building within walking distance of Truman’s home (we drove, Truman would walk). The Truman library looks nice, feels friendly, and was altogether a far better experience than Abilene’s equivalent for Eisenhower. The Eisenhower Center looked dated – architecture and style were very much of the 1950s, when it began, and the Meditation Center where the Eisenhowers are buried was creepy. The Truman center was dedicated in 1957 but it could as easily have been the 1980s or 1990s – perhaps it recently underwent major renovation? And the Trumans are buried simply and presumably deeply in a grassy courtyard.
Any regrets about Independence? Only that the weekend kept us from taking the factory tour at Moon Marbles.
Hi Cam,
ReplyDeleteSince you are having difficulties loading photos... Do you have a Flickr account? Two brothers (twins) that are friends of my sons went to Europe over the summer, and they used this same blog site you are using, then uploaded their photos onto Flickr. They had a few pics on the blog site, but not many....so, there must be "issues" with including photos(one of these boys just graduated from CalPoly with a degree in computer science!).
I am totally enjoying your Airstream adventure!
Cheers, Dee
Thx, Dee.
ReplyDeleteUsing Picasa, also owned by Google.
Main problem is the hassle - download from camera to Picasa, edit in Picasa, resize for web, export to a file, upload to Blogger, try to get Blogger to put the picture where I want it, start all over again.
things are going a bit better.
Other problem is remembering to take pictures of interesting stuff.
Cam
It looks like you got your picture taking and loading perfected ;-)
ReplyDeletebtw....since it sounds like the hitch failures were on a Hensley, please be prepared to share the details upon your return home!
Cheers....still lovin' your Airstream adventures!