RAIN RAIN RAIN

When we arrived in Vonore, Tennessee the sun had finally come out and we were at the Sea Ray Plant by 6am Monday morning. A mere eight hours later and we were at last getting the boats loaded onto the trailer. Seems the boats were ready, but they had a shortage of trailers for the boats. We weren't the only ones waiting around, two more boat drivers from our company showed up after we did and they were both still waiting when we drove away. At least the scenery was quite nice while we were there. They had a large lake which I would imagine they probably use from time to time to test out some boats.

Leaving Vonore we ran straight into a large rain cell. It started out like this:

Then it progressed to this:

And finally it rained so hard you could hardly see the road:

So you know what happens when it rains like that, you get scenes like this:


Now the interesting thing with the first picture of just the tractor, there is suppose to be a trailer attached to it. As we passed by we tried to see where it had finally ended up but couldn't find it. We are always thankful when we are kept from harms way on our journeys!

We arrived in Austin, Texas Monday morning for an unload of 5 boats and then it was off to Pharr to pick up more boats headed to Wenatchee, Washington and Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. We took our usual route into Pharr and I finally got to take a picture of something I have been wanting to share with you all. As you know on our travels we are always seeing or stopping by a Wal-Mart or Wal-Mart Supercenter. But have you ever seen a Wal-Mart Express? It's a mini Wal-Mart, go figure.


We arrived in Pharr Wednesday afternoon. We were told there was so much rain on Monday the entire town of Reynosa, Mexico, where the trailers are taken to get loaded was under 4 feet of water. We were told to expect some delay in waiting for the load to come back. So here we are, in Pharr again, doing our Wal-Mart shopping, getting our Starbucks fix, and enjoying a movie or two.