Wichita
About a four hour drive east to Wichita. Started with clear skies which changed to mixed puffy white clouds.
In Garden City we passed a huge storage yard filled with wind turbine parts.
Turbine blades
Nose cones
Tower segments
More blades
We went through Dodge City. Very touristy.
Shortly (weeks) after we were married we moved to Wichita, Kansas where I was stationed in the Air Force. The first three years we were there we lived in a basement apartment under a small home in a quiet neighborhood southeast of the center of town.
756 S. Erie Wichita, KS
Side view. Window at ground level center is window of basement living room. Window behind trash can is kitchen area.
Walkway at rear of house is access to basement apartment.
Door to basement apartment
Window at ground level behind plants is bedroom.
Front of house. We rarely saw this as we were always going in door in rear.
Since we started our carbus travels we have been back several times to reminisce and recreate a favorite memory. When Sue was pregnant with Ken and later Dan, we took evening walks around the neighborhood. Often these walks included a visit to a Dairy Queen about six blocks from home where we would get small chocolate dipped cones. A reward for the walk 
Same small walkup DQ. Exterior has been upgraded and drive through added. Note sky.
When we got back to the carbus we talked to the lady who lived in the house (not our former landlord). She said the basement was still an apartment but the tenant was not there so we missed a chance to maybe take a look at where we started married life nearly 50 years ago. The cones were still good though.
Carbus across street from our first home.
Left Wichita about 2:30 in the afternoon. Skies still puffy clouds except toward the southwest where they merged together and were getting grayer and grayer. Our destination for the night was 30 miles north of Wichita. All the way north the sky to the west got grayer and darker. The office of the RV park we stopped at was watching a big screen TV with coverage of tornados in Oklahoma mixed with constant local updates of severe thunderstorm warnings and progression of local storms. Part of check in included pointing out location of storm shelter if tornado developed. Minutes after we got parked and hooked up utilities a cell moved in. Wind, rain, pea sized hail. Pretty cool to sit and watch. Would not want to drive in it. Areas around Wichita (which we had left 30 minutes earlier under sunny skies) were getting ping pong sized hail. Wow!
Goose weathering the storm. White spots are dandelions, not hail.
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