Tuesday, June 18, 2013

June 17- 18 2013 Gillette, WY FMCA rally

We arrived early to the rally.  Get a good parking place, get settled meet the neighbors and figure out the layout of the place.  There were still over a thousand motorhomes here early. It is the 50th anniversary of the Family Motor coach association.

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Program for the rally. We are a place called the Cam-plex. It is huge, has tons of RV hookups.  They have the county fair here and many other large events.  They have a display of equipment used in the oil fields and coal mines in the area. Here is John climbing one of the trucks. Big toys for big boys.

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John riding his bike in a huge bucket from some HUGE piece of equipment. We could drive the motor home into this. A loco weed growing by the equipment.

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I am getting around in a 12 foot diameter, 4 feet wide tire. A New York Yankees car is someone’s towed vehicle

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They have a display of vintage motor homes from the 50’s since this is the 50th anniversary. These are converted Flexible buses.  Outside and inside.  These ones are still in use.

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Another flexible interior.  We went to a rousing game of bingo the first night. We didn’t win anything. The prizes were handfuls of candy bars and Wal-Mart gift cards.

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Sunset over the sea of motorhomes. I updated our route on our US map, last year is in the lime green. Last year was in bright purple, but it didn’t show up, so I embroidered the green on top. This year is started with metallic red, you can see it going to Gillette, Wyo. I may need another color, I can’t tell if it is going to blend in or not.

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There were thunderstorms this afternoon. Cool mammatus clouds and a rainbow.

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Rainbow in the sunset, and another sunset over the sea of motorhomes.

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