Brian & Patty's Awesome Adventure!: Amarillo, Tx

We were going to go to El Reno, Oklahoma and spend two or three nights at the Indian Casino that we stayed at on the way back from Michigan when we bought the 5th wheel. We were scheduled to leave on Tuesday morning from Lake Texoma. We were going to head to Amarillo on Thursday or Friday.

A severe storm was on the way. I'm sure you heard about it on the news. Warm air was coming from the south and cold air from the north and was colliding right were we were heading! We were heading into what we were hearing was 30-50% chance of tornadoes right were we were going! At the very least 2" hail and 60-70 mile an hour winds.

We decided we would leave a day early on Monday and we might miss the SEVERE storm if we just stayed the one night. We actually left and had driven about 15 minutes. We were on the bridge over Lake Texoma and into Oklahoma wondering why we were going towards potential danger.

We turned around and took the 287 towards Amarillo! Amarillo barely would be missing the severe storms but was going to get the cold. We can handle the cold in our coach! We decided to pull into the Amarillo Best Wonderland RV Park for ten nights. It got up to almost 90 degrees on Monday but with high winds up to about 40 mph. Tuesday was much colder but still at about 50 degrees. By about 9:00 PM it was already freezing and we got some light snow, but because there was so little precipitation it did not stick.Most of the night it was in the low 20's out. It got down to 20 degrees at 7:00 AM wednesday morning. We stuck a cup of water outside next to our front door. Here is what we got!

Frozen water

It didn't get above freezing (32 F) until after noon. I tried to use my windshield washers on my truck but no fluid would come out until later in the afternoon. I thought the fluid was antifreeze. I was wrong!

We decided to go to the Jack Sisemore RV Museum. This is a free RV Museum at Jack Sisemore Traveland, and RV sales business. He also own the RV park we are in.

RV Museum

This is the actual 1948 Flexible Bus that the Gornike family was driving in, in the Robin Williams movie "RV".

1948 Flexible Bus

What was different about this museum then any other museum I have been in, is that you can walk in every one of the RV's Jack has on display here! Very cool!

Here I am driving the same RV that Jeff Daniels did in the movie! :)

Brian driving Happy Max

I found this screen shot of Robin Williams on top of the bus in the movie.

RV the movie

This is the inside of the bus.

Inside the Flexible

This is a 1921 Ford Lampsteed Kampkar. This is a very early motor home!

This is a 1936 Alma travel trailer. Pretty amazing that you could walk in these. This ones floor was squeeking!

1937 Elkart Traveler. This is the first model of RV to come out of Elkart, Indiana. Elkart is where most RV's are now made. Our Carriage was made down the road in Middlebury, Indiana.

Speaking of our Carriage, Jack must have been a Carriage dealer at one time. Check out this old Carriage sign! Royals International was Carriage's top of the line rig.

Carriage Sign

This 1937 Kozy Kamp is one of the first tent trailers. I didn't realize they made them that long ago.

1937 Kozy Kamp

This is a 1948 Ford.

1948 Ford

Attached to the 1948 Ford is a 1948 Kit Tear Drop trailer.

Kit Tear Drop

1953 Fleetwood Trailer. This is the first year Fleetwood made trailers.

1953 Fleetwood.

1970 Avion Camper. This is the last year Avion made campers. They are better know for large 5th wheels. RV Bill lived in an Avion 5th wheel on his lot at BIll's RV.

Avion Camper

This 1973 Tow Low was interesting. You can see the wheel on the front. The wheel lowers and raises the hard sided trailer to make it short for towing and taller for camping.

1973 Tow Low

1975 Winnebago Itasca. This is the first Itasca Winnebago ever made. It is serial number 1.

Serial #1

Jack also has a collection of bikes, both dirt and street.

Collection of bikes

The two most interesting to me were these two...

1977 Confederate Bike. This came from the factory with a confederate flag on it. It was made after they first made a Liberty bike. They only produced 45 of these Sportsters. The thing that was interesting to me is because of the political incorrectness of this bike Harley Davidson does not recognise that they made this. It has been removed from their archives and is the only bike not at their museum. It is like it never happened! Harley the bad boy of bikes has chickened out! It probably was a bad decision to make this bike, but you can't rewrite history no matter how bad it is!