Our work date got moved back due to the downturn in the economy. All the workampers due to start work 10/19/08 will now start 11/2/08. The orders for Amazon.com aren't coming in like they have in years past. They expect it to pick up soon and have assured us we will start work 11/2/08.
In the mean time we are having fun meeting folks and seeing the area. The weather has been nice so we can't complain.
A 'social' was held on Saturday and probably 75 people attended. All workampers. We are scattered in 4 different areas but managed to get together for friendship and networking. All the people already working tell us the best thing we can do while we wait to start work is to walk...A LOT. They tell us we will be better prepared for all the walking that goes with the job. So, that is what we have been doing.
We drove about 25 miles to Little House On The Prairie to a homestead where Laura Ingalls and family lived from 1869 to 1871. There we saw a log house that was a replica of the one the Ingalls lived in while here in Kansas. We also took a walk through the prairie grass to Walnut Creek that Laura mentioned in her books. It was pretty neat to walkwhere the pioneers did 150 years ago while they made their journey west. It was so quiet there we could almost feel like we were there back then. We hope to visit DeSmet, South Dakota where the Ingalls family settled in 1879 and was the inspiration for many of the books Laura Ingalls wrote.
If we hadn't accepted this workamping job we would probably never have had seen this area which is what we have found many times with other assignments. It is a pretty nifty way to see the USA.
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