Focht Family Blog

When we left Seattle we thought we would stay out of the cold weather but apparently that was very short lived. We decided that we wanted a few upgrades to the All-Star so we are headed to Newmar. We are currently in the last leg of the journey. We left Manteca, CA on Saturday morning and we have crossed into Indiana from Illinois already.

Unfortunately I found out the hard way that my camera has decided to die. Apparently the blurriness from the last picture wasn’t water on the lens. Last night we stopped for the night at a Walmart in Springfield, MO because the roads were becoming too icy and we were afraid we would have to end up pulling off where there was no safe place to stop. It was amazing driving into the parking lot and seeing the ice everywhere. I tried to take a picture of one of the cart returns where ice was hanging off of every piece of metal and where the road crew had piled ice/snow up against the side. Here is how it ended up looking.

I figured it was just the problems that I have already had with the flash and darkness so I tried again this morning near St. Louis when we stopped for gas. I took a picture of the windshield washing bucket frozen into a large ice cube.

So I started looking online as to what a new camera was going to cost me. Nathan reminded me that the nice, expensive video camera that he bought me for Christmas also takes pictures so I started playing around with it in the RV. I decided to take a picture out of the windshield so everyone in the south can feel warmer. This is I-80 in Indiana right after we crossed the Illinois border.

The water running down the windshield is ice that keeps coming off of the roof. We have changed our course a few times today because I keep checking the DOT websites to figure out which roads are cleared and safe for travel. Although we are driving pretty slow right now we are still planning on making it into Camp Newmar tonight. Tomorrow is going to be a HUGE cleaning day. We are going to drive to the laundromat and strip all of the beds and then scrub from top to bottom. We have let it go too long and things are looking gross.

Anyways, I will be a better wife and start carrying the larger camera so I can get decent pictures. That is the only downside to the video camera. My digital camera fits into a pocket in my purse. The video camera does not.