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Oklahoma oohhh Oklahoma
We had to back track for a while to Oklahoma city
to a RV dealership Dealing Dan had sent us too. . He recommended this place as
it was a friend of his and he assured us he would have the door fixed in no time
and we could continue our journey to Sequoia without a tarp strap on our door.
I would feel somewhat relieved myself to have the door fixed as I know Ann and Lee
would also. Besides here we are running around in about one hundred seventy thousand
dollar recreational vehicle with a bungee strap on the door, and nothing says
rip me off anymore than that. We had been very vigilant at making sure someone
stayed around the Road Warrior or to make sure we always kept it in sight. We
would have liked to have stayed in Roxby a couple of more days but we still
needed to get the door fixed so we could move on to our next destination of Mt Rushmore
which is another place on our bucket list of places to go. Even Ann as well off
as she was never took time in her life to ever make a trip like this and see
the wonders of the United States and this beautiful country we live in. She
could never take time off from her work as she always felt that when she was
gone she could never relax as things would soon be screwed up. It was easier to
just keep on working. Now she doesn’t have to worry about anything except who
is trying to get her if there is anyone. As for Lee and myself I would have
never been able to afford anything like this and neither would Lee as he was
just a poor old farmer like me. This is like a dream come true for both of us
to be able to travel in such class even though it has a bungee cord on the
door. In fact myself and Lee probably would have never thought nothing about a
bungee cord. Been using them a lot over the years and one more won’t make much difference,
just a way of life with old farmers.
Anyhow we were back on the road again ,
and as we went Ann and Lee now would sit with Lee in the passenger seat and the
Ann on the couch behind me, and we would
talk as I drove along and discuss everything from news to who is out to get Ann
if they are at all. One of our conversations led to Ann’s ex-husband Tom.
Whenever Tom was mentioned ,you could see
the anger a in Ann’s face seem to glow red and her voice would change as she had nothing
but contempt for the man and apparently has never forgiven or forgotten what an
ass that man was . Yet she doubted whether or not he would go so far as to rob
her now knowing she had the means to find him out wherever he may be. And Ann
confided in us saying she had hired that same detective that followed Leann and
stuck him on Tom for a while to see if he was the one behind all this. What she
couldn’t understand was how in the world he could have found her out in the
middle of the country unless he had been dogging them since they started. That was
a near impossibility. As they were involved in that wreck where Lee received
his stitches and then the first attempt at making the trip to Sequoia was
aborted and then they had the layover at my place.
Ann says of that drunk, “ I doubt if he
would ever have enough money, or a clean license, let alone a car to follow me
that much. Anyhow the detective I hired is checking into what happened to us
that night in the RV park to assure to us it was random and not an intentional
act of violence.”
“So does the detective have access to your entire information Dear or
what?” Lee asked
Ann said to us both . “I had to give him
access to find out who would inquire about my credit cards or anything that
would lead someone to be able to follow us. I mean how else would they know where we were going daily. We
make it up as we go along. Yesterday Kansas, today it is Oklahoma City. No one
knows our itinerary , so if it was an act of random violence then so be it ,
but if someone is after me I want to know isn’t that ok?”
Lee says. “Dear anything you do is ok with
me. Just don’t understand how it is someone could follow you though. Like you
said we make it up as we go along.”
I asked. “Suppose they were following us by GPS
or phone. Ann have you called anyone at home to let them know what we were up
to like your brother or his wife, Toms sister , and maybe she passed it on. But
then we have been so erratic as you say one day we are in St. Louis. GPS signal
would surely be the way, if any. Lee look in the owner’s manual of this thing
and see if there is any way they could track us through our GPS. That would
make sense.”
Ann says. “OK and also Guy I haven’t even
told my brothers I was taking this trip as far as they know we are sitting back
at your place in Stockport fishing on the river. I never even told them about
going out west or anything including the wreck. I just didn’t want to worry
them needlessly. The GPS makes sense is there any way to turn it off?”
Lee says. “If you turn it off then we have
no directional capability , also we will also lose our satellite internet
capability as it is all tied to location when determining which satellite we
are bouncing off. We would essentially go dark.”
“Well how about if we just used it when we
stopped then it would be harder for anyone to follow us if we put say three to
four hundred miles between stops and went back to old school maps or map
quested our directions. When we are not using the internet we just shut
everything down. Also Ann maybe we need some cash on hand as every time we use our
debit cards or credit cards we are sharing a lot of information . Our location
and time we were there, with this information they could make assumptions as to
where we are going, by tracking this information.”
Ann said . “Listen to us we are getting
paranoid about something that shouldn’t be, talking as if someone is out to get
me. Why that is when you have nothing, no one could give a shit less about you,
but when you have a little something you constantly have to watch your back to
keep some asshole from trying to take it away? “
“We will figure it out dear what is going
on,. Hopefully your private dick will nose his way into your business enough to
figure something out. In the meantime we will shut off the GPS in the Road Warrior
and watch when and where we use the internet and our phones for that matter.
Lee said, and then he went on , “We must all be diligent in what we do and Ann.
Both Guy and i both will do whatever is necessary to protect you, don’t worry.”
At this Lee swiveled the passenger seat around and went to sit beside Ann on
the couch and put his arm around her and both reclined into the comfort of the
couch and went silent as I looked in the inside rear view mirror I saw Lee
cradling Ann’s head and lightly kissing her head as she burrowed her head into
his chest. They just lay back their quietly for a while thinking and holding each
other. I just turned up the music and concentrated on my driving. We were
starting to enter the outskirts of Oklahoma City, where the devastating tornado
hit. Apparently it didn’t bother the RV dealers. The GPS was still on an soon
it was telling me to turn here and then there until I was in front of a huge RV
dealership called Wynn’s RV. I pulled the Road Warrior in the lot and was soon
met by the service manager an as I slid the driver’s window back and I told
him who we were and he said he had been waiting on us and had a place in his
garage for the Road Warrior . He asked if we were going to stay in the vehicle
or if we had any plans. I told him that we had planned on touring the
devastation left by the tornado s and that we needed our car off the back of
the Road Warrior. And he could take the Road Warrior and do whatever. He said
fine we could park it where it was and unhook if we were ready to go.
I looked at Ann and Lee who were
gathering their stuff and soon we exited the Road Warrior after I unhooked the
bungee cord. And soon as I opened the door the step extended. Just love that
thing I thought to myself as I stepped down and handed the keys to the service
manager. In just a couple of minutes we piled into the Ford Escape and were
driving out of the lot. The service manager said he would call when he was finished
with the door. And I asked him to check all the fluids too while he had it in
the shop and he said he would make sure his crew gave it the once over.
I thought Wow , what good old fashioned
service. Course this is where the money is, in high end coaches such as the Road
Warrior and these guys have to compete for business. So doing a good job makes
a real difference.
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