Who's on the road again?

Well the time has come for us to move on without the boys. We left Springfield this morning and went to St Joseph, Mo for the night. Not so long a distance, but it was raining all day. Jim went to the Pony Express Museum and I finished cleaning up the RV.

While in Springfield, we got to go backstage at the Zoo and the boys got to feed the Owls...mice YUK. They loved it.Here is a Picture of the Bard Owl

k

Jim and the boys try the tube

We got Jim out there with the boys to give his arm a good workout

More Lake fun

Hunter age 7 learned to wakeboard on his own and is now working on using a longer rope

.

Lake fun

Out of WI-Fi range for a while at the Lake.

Boys brought a wakeboard and had a ball. Harrison learns to Jump the wake here

UPdate 6/11/09

No picture tonight, but for those of you who want to know..... WE MADE IT to Springfield, Missouri.
The new transmission has now been towed over 900 miles and is just fine. However today when we unhooked it, the battery was dead. Maybe I left something on??? More investigating to be done. The boys endured two 400+ mile days in the RV and we are here.

Hopefully you do not here anything else about the Escape except how much we love it.
Ford has some learning to do on their new transmission.
NUF SAID

YUP it happened again

5:30pm and the Escape has blown transmission #2. Here we are at Jennings, Fl. The car is being taken to Valdosta Lincoln Mercury dealer.

6/4/09 11:00am. We are at the dealer. We find out that there is another transmission and parts are ordered and will be here Monday or Tuesday. It will take them one working day to repair and with lots of luck and many prayers, we may be leaving the 9th or 10th. we are at the Valdosta KOA. Come on up it is raining! Ford is getting us a rental car so we cango to store andat least get the boys out for some adventure. They are only worried that their days at Missouri are going to be cut short. We will have to put Mammouth Caves on a to be visited later list!
Keep watching for the next UPDATE. "LEMON LAW" three failures. So since each transmission has made it 1400 miles before blowing----we are watching for a Ford dealer in 1400 miles! Wouldn't you????

June 3,2009 9:30am

Here we are loading the last thing on the RV.....US. Off from Boca Ciega Point to parts North and west.