In Cape Girardeau, MO

 61 degrees and rain here in Cape Girardeau, MO at 9:30 am Sunday.

This will be a little abbreviated and will try to make longer post later.  We left home last Wednesday morning  with our trailer and went to our friends Harold & LaRhoda Neher's place near Hiawatha, KS.

Thursday we drove the 414 miles or so to Cape Camping RV in Cape Girardeau.  Had a little low vibration in the pickup that we had thought we got rid of when had u-joints replaced last week in Clarinda.  Set up here and drove the couple miles to Don & Vicki's place for a short visit.  Vicki was not in a visiting mood.  We went to Cracker Barrell, here in Cape Friday morning and had brunch with brother Don and Mike & Mary Jo Diamond -- who are looking after Don & Vicki.  Don & Vicki had a van tour in the afternoon and we spent time at our trailer.  Went back up to Don's Friday evening and played a game of Chicken Foot Dominoes and had a better visit.  

We had a little vibration in the pickup even while not hooked to the trailer.  Went to a couple places on Saturday, but found they had their service departments closed, but ended up at Dodd's Tire & Auto where they felt my description, partly from Kevin Champ in Clarinda of  the torque converter starting to fail. To keep driving will likely cause more damage to the Torque Converter and probably the transmission.  They are a little short on employees, but assured me they will get to the pickup at least by Tuesday and that parts are available.  They are next door to the Chevrolet dealer who was closed and I said I would maybe wait until Monday and see if they could get to it right away.  The manager said he understood they were 3 weeks behind on anything major to work on.  Don't know if he was 100% true, but are leaving the pickup with them.  Our friends Mike & Mary Jo Diamond have loaned us their car and we will be here in this RV Park for several days.  Are going to go in a few minutes to pick up Don & Vicki to take them to church.

More later, LC