July 4, Adventure Ride

Olen and I had an interesting ride yesterday morning. Our car had
the head light covers broken out but the bulbs were still functioning.
New head light assemblies have been ordered. Olen was coming back
from NDJ and the bus was late so did not get to Kelo until 0130. I
was picking him up in the car. As we left Kelo a storm was coming
up with severe wind the same direction as the road and had severe dust
from the road so could not see hardly at all then the rain began and
really poured. Pretty soon the road was muddy and water filled holes.
The car lights kept working for a few kilometers but pretty soon the
water knocked out the lights. My Mag light flashlight was not very
bright but I had put in my pocket two new lithium AA batteries for
possible emergency and we put them in the flashlight and we had good
bright light while Olen held it outside the window as I drove trying
to stay in the middle of the road. There was lots of lightening so
could see part of the time with that. The road got slick and muddy
so put the car into 4 wheel drive which helped . Then we came to a
rain gate that was closed (road blocked about half way to Bere) but
Olen was able (with a little grease money ) to get a man to open the
gate to let us through. The flashlight held strong all the way home
to Bere, (40 kilometers Kelo to Bere . The rain slowed down by the
time we got to Bere. Our rain gauge only showed an inch here in Bere
but it seemed a lot more than that as we were driving. Olen’s arm
was a little bruised from holding the light outside the window as we
hit some holes in the road and bounced a little in the water.

Today we had a birthday party (a few days late) for Zane and celebrate
July 4 which of course is not a holiday here. No fireworks as don’t
want anyone to think we are starting a revolution. It is a nice
day about 85 degrees and about 85% humidity..
Our emails are:  drbland@sbcglobal.net and dfbland01@gmail.com .
Rollin and Dolores