April , 2016... Friday

Well Pauper's Pride is on the road again! We are on our way back down to sunny Florida. We hit rain off & on for the first several hours. Extremely windy... Makes for intense driving conditions in a motorhome! About 4 hours driving and we hear a loud "swish, swish" kind of noise. My first thought was that we blew a tire! I saw out the window that the awing on the motorhome came down, and it is a huge awing!! The strong winds were whipping it about. Luckily we were on a city road, not on the  expressway. It was a stroke of luck that we were near a truck repair shop with a circle drive. (You can't just pull over or turn around a 30 foot RV with a car being towed) how that awing got loose is still a mystery because it is locked in place. Richard had to flip the lock to unlock it so we could get it rolled back up in place. It was really cold out and so windy, it was hard to get it back up and locked in place,but we did it. One side of the awing got several rips and will probably have to be repaired. A funny side note..... There were two guys outside by the trucks that looked like straight out of the movie "deliverance " with two not so friendly looking dogs! As it turned out the dogs were very friendly sniffing around our legs while we were trying to deal with the awning. The guys just stood there and watched us...duh! We continued on our way and made Padacuh, KY after 8 driving hours and 316 miles. We spent the night at Victory RV Park  which we had stayed at before.