On to Wellington, KS

When we got up this morning, it was still raining on and off. We were tired of rain and lightning, but they stayed with us as we headed north on I-35 toward Oklahoma City. When we stopped for fuel, I talked with a couple who were headed south. They had been full-timers for 12 ½ years and were admiring the Majestic. They told me to expect a delay of about an hour going through Oklahoma City.

They were about right. We sat in four lanes of stop and go traffic for nearly an hour as we approached Moore. We began to see lots of trash strewn about, and the exits were closed. Police and emergency workers were everywhere. Then we came to the actual path of the tornadoes that leveled a good bit of Moore. It was total devastation on both sides of the interstate.

Once we passed that point, traffic opened up quickly. The entire hour of delay was evidently due to “looky-loo” slowdown.

Tonight we’re spending the night in a Walmart parking lot in Wellington, Kansas. It’s out in the country, about two miles off the interstate, and surrounded by fields of grain. As we took our walk, we could see two grain elevators.


This Walmart has the very least customer traffic of any we've seen. It's open 24 hours a day, but had very few cars in the parking lot while we were eating dinner tonight.