Wind Corridor

If you did not already know this; now you will. Up the central part of the US from Mexico into Canada there is a wind corridor. T Boone Pickens is very exited about this because he wants to build wind energy farms. There are already a lot of them in Iowa. In fact the Iowa State Fair is powered by a wind turbine. We have not seen any as we make our way from Iowa down I-35 to Zapata Texas our winter home. The wind has been perfect for turning those big, tall, airplane looking things. The wind has swayed us and gusted us and made driving really hard to do. The wind keeps wanting to move us from between the white lane lines into the way of other silly folks also battling the wind for supremacy.

"The sun will come up tomorrow, tomorrow" (Can you hear me singing?) However so will the wind. Are we ever excited, NOT! We were told by a man at the welcome desk at the last service area on the Kansas turn pike that the wind had been blowing for 7 days like it was today, and he thought that could be a record. We are about 90 miles from the border between Oklahoma and Texas may be the wind will die down in Texas, we can only hope. There are a good number of all kinds of RV's headed in the same direction as we are, flying from the snow that has already started to fall in Iowa and states to the north of there. We are Snow Birds after all.

My brother Jon has had a heart attack and is to have bypass surgery. Five bypasses. Please say a prayer for him and Sandy and their five kids. This is a very scary time for all of us.