And the Repairs Continue

Yesterday's post left off with a huge sigh of relief.  No beastly killer mold growing in the walls of the rig.  But there was still the water damage to the cedar lined closet, all of which had been stripped out along with wood trim, shelving, sliding full-length mirrored doors and carpet.  Everything would have to be rebuilt.  Plus, we had a few minor things that had come up in the year since we were last at the factory that we wanted fixed.  And none of this was in our warranty, it expired almost a year ago.  I could see the dollar signs piling up.

We have spanned a weekend now.  It was a cold and dreary stretch, sitting on the asphalt apron to the maintenance building.  We did a little shopping for food and took advantage of being close to a Redbox and checked out a couple of Blu-ray movies.  According to the weather man, next week promises to be a little more spring-like.

Come Monday they were back at it.  One of the fixes I wanted done, an issue with antenna placement of my cell phone amplifier, needed a lot of new cabling to route to the new mounting location of the internal dome emitter.  This is not something that anybody has on-hand, the OEM of the amplifier has to custom make the cable and ship it to us.  This added a couple of days to our time in Junction City.

About mid-week we got that break in the weather that was promised and Cyndee and I struck out to see what there was to see in the surrounding area.  We had heard that there was a Wizard of Oz museum a couple of towns away in the direction of Kansas City.  We gave that a try.

Wamego, like Dorothy's house, is in a wind-blown wheat field, miles from anything else.  Some of the buildings on the main street were built post-civil war up to about the 1920's. 

The building that the museum was in looked as if it used to be a couple of old mercantile stores that had the wall separating them knocked out.  Whatever it used to be, it was far from that now.

We weren't quite sure what to expect on the inside.  It could have easily been a bunch of plastic reproduction junk.  But it definitely was not.  There was display after display of articles used in the movie as well as oodles of memorabilia from the 1940's. 

The life size model of each of the characters was especially well done.

A not so close-up of the wicked witch and her flying monkey.

The scarecrow was the one that looked as if it was about to talk to you.

While many pieces in the museum are original from the movie or era, the lion suite is not.
But it is a very well done reproduction.

We would not have come all the way across the country just to go to this museum but it was a great way to spend the day since we were already in the area.

Wamego is a pretty small town and dining options are limited.  But half-way back to Junction City is Manhattan, KS, home of KSU and lots of college town eatery options.

Finally, a day that was more than just magazines, TV and practicing the art of staying warm.