tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48249346407009208812024-02-18T23:04:26.939-08:00Casita Trip to the Great LakesMay 25, 2012 - September 14, 2012Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824934640700920881.post-38147473235264788882012-09-14T21:20:00.000-07:002020-04-22T14:51:28.383-07:00May 25, 2012We spent all day getting our stuff together for our trip to the Great Lakes. Tomorrow we will hook up the trailer and drive to Freeport where Jim and his brother have a house on the Intracoastal Waterway near Surfside Beach. We'll spend the Memorial Day weekend there before heading north.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824934640700920881.post-58440777210322185222012-09-13T19:09:00.000-07:002020-04-22T14:51:03.872-07:00May 26, 2012<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We went to the storage lot and picked up the
Casita this morning and drug it back to the house. We loaded it and then took off to David and Jim’s house on the
Intra Coastal Waterway in Freeport, Texas.
David lives here full time. At
the house I noticed the outside door to the hot water heater was missing. Jim doesn’t know if it was on the Casita at
the storage lot or if we lost it somewhere in between there and home. Jim
thinks it was stolen for scrap metal by a petty thief. We have had a
couple of other instances of vandalism to our trailer at this place even though you have to have a gate
code to gain access. We notified the
staff last Monday that we will be canceling our site there. After we return from the Great Lakes we will
be storing the Casita at my mother’s house.
It’s about 55 miles from our house so it won’t be as convenient to get
to it as before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We arrived at Freeport
and got set up. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I fixed a broccoli salad to contribute to
tonight’s dinner and then Jim wanted to go try to find some geocaches. There were a couple in Surfside but one was
infested with sticker burs and cacti and the other was in the middle of a park
at the jetty overrun with families because of Memorial Day weekend. We came back and sat outside and watched
the traffic go up and down the Intra Coastal waterway.</span><br />
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could get a good breeze through the Casita.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All of the windows were open and the shades were up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was very bright when the sun rose so we
got up early.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After breakfast we drove
to Lake Jackson and went to Lowes and WalMart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>More of David’s friends came today and there was a total of fifteen
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The young people fished today and Sierra caught her first fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a redfish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taylor caught a really interesting looking fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David said it was a Sheepshead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had the strangest looking teeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They looked like human teeth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">David got crawfish this morning and we had them
for dinner tonight boiled with potatoes, corn and sausage. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made a slaw recipe that has ramen noodles
in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also made a banana pudding and
there were chocolate cupcakes and some really good deviled eggs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We watched the activity on the Intra Coastal
and sat outside and enjoyed the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After noon the traffic got so bad on the road to Surfside that the
police closed it and wouldn’t let anyone else go toward the beach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was reopened a couple of hours later.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We loaded up and left Freeport this morning and
drove to our house. I had to pick up
some stuff I had bought for mom and leave it with my brother, Elton, in case
she needs anything while we are gone. I
also watered the lawn and flowerbeds.
We are leaving the Toyota in the barn at mom’s house in case Elton or
Allen need to take her anywhere. After
driving to my brother’s, we went to see mom and played bingo with her. She didn’t win today. We stopped and picked up Subway sandwiches
for dinner and watched the first episode of “Hatfields and McCoys”.</span><br />
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breakfast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elton got ready to go
camping near Coldspring, Texas with a lady friend of his.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We took the Toyota to my son and then went
to visit my mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She finished
reading a library book we checked out for her and I took it back and got her
another one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stopped for gas at
Wal-Mart in Liberty and then drove to Jim’s sister Judy’s house in Troup, Texas
near Tyler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She fixed a nice dinner for
us and then the three of us went about a half mile down the road to a cemetery
and found a geo cache.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was in a
small film canister tethered to a big oak tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We went back to Judy’s and watched part 2 of “Hatfields and
McCoys”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Thunder woke us up this morning and I had to
close the Casita windows and the wing windows on the Silverado camper
cover. We got 1/4 inch of rain. Judy drove us into Tyler and we did some
shopping and had lunch at B J’s Brewhouse.
On the way back to the house we found three geocaches. One was behind the “Welcome to Tyler” sign
on Broadway (Hwy. 69), one in a tree at the New Life Church on Hwy. 69, and one
in Whitehouse, Texas, behind a computer store.
A man came out to his car and saw us and asked what we were doing. We told him we were looking for a geocache. He smiled and said he was the one who had
placed it. He told us to come see him
after we found it. Jim went and told
him we left a trinket in the cache. At
night we watched part 3 of “Hatfields & McCoys”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">If anyone is interested in geocaching, here is where you should go - <a href="http://www.geocaching.com/">www.geocaching.com</a>.</span><br />
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through the early morning. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Judy went to
her grandson John’s (Bubba)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>kindergarten graduation this morning with her son, Tom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After she returned we got the Casita hooked
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We drove into Troup and filled up
with gas and stopped at Brookshires to get some groceries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our first stop after that was Casita in
Rice, Texas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim bought a new outside
door for the hot water heater to replace the one that was stolen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also bought a clear panel for the screen
door to replace our black one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple
of push buttons on our cabinet door locks were broken and Casita gave us two
new ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We drove to Waxahachie Creek
Park on Lake Bardwell and got an RV site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have a pretty view of the lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After dinner we took a walk through the park and then came back to watch
the Astros game and update the blog.</span><br />
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morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fixed biscuits and sausage
and we sat outside with our coffee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After taking showers, we hooked up and left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we were camping at Bardwell Lake two different hosts asked
us if we were here trying out our new Casita in case anything was wrong as we
were close enough to go back to Casita if there was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We told them ours was a 2006 model and we were just camping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the road into the park was a farmer’s
field of sunflowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were really
large and heavy with seeds.</span><br />
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information center and McDonald’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
arrived at camp about 4 pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge just outside Lawton, Oklahoma next to Fort.
Sill. They had 5 electric sites available. Doris campground has 23 electric
sites and 47 non electric sites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
sites don’t have water but there is a central water spigot in each loop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had put water in our tank at Lake
Bardwell this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a first come
first served campground – they don’t take reservations. There is also a dump
station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do have satellite TV but
there is no cell service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We used the
On Star telephone in the Silverado to call my brother to tell him where we
were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before supper we went for a walk
through the campground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a
pretty lake with a bridge over it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
also saw a summer tanager and a tarantula on the way back to the trailer.</span><br />
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when we woke up this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
temperature was 60.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The clouds began to
clear around 9 am and we decided to drive through the refuge and take a few
hikes and look at the scenery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
are lots of pretty lakes in the refuge. We saw buffalo along with longhorn
cattle and quite a few different<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wild
flowers in bloom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The information said
there were elk but we didn’t see any.</span><br />
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We took three hikes and stopped for a picnic
lunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a prairie dog town
that we stopped at also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw on the
map a place named Holy City so we drove there to see what it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is where the longest running Passion
Play has been performed since 1929.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They only have performances twice a year now, on the weekend before
Easter and Easter weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a
really pretty chapel on the grounds and they were getting ready for a wedding
today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While there I saw a postcard of
Meers, Oklahoma and wondered where the town was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the way to drive up Scott Mountain we passed a highway sign
pointing to Meers four miles down the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We stopped there to see if we could get a beer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The restaurant had a line of about 20 people
waiting to get in at 3 pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim and I
were invited by a man and his son who were in line behind us to sit with
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We shared a really great
hamburger and a Meers Gold beer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
man ordered peach cobbler and homemade ice cream and it was large enough to
share with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We left and drove to the
top of Scott Mountain which had a great view of the surrounding area.</span><br />
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of lightening outside. I woke Jim and
he went outside and got our chairs so they wouldn’t get wet. Just as he finished, it started to rain. He
plugged in the weather radio and we listened to it. We went back to bed and a few minutes later the weather radio
alarm went off. There was a line of
thunderstorms from Cache to Oklahoma City producing hail and 60 mile per hour
winds. Thank goodness we didn’t get any of the high winds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We hooked up and struck out for Oklahoma
City. Our friends Kim and Steve moved
there from Sugar Land. We stopped in
Medicine Park at the McDonald’s so Jim could research places to stay near them
and update the blog for the past two days.
We found a site just outside Edmond on a really pretty lake, unhooked
and then drove to Kim and Steve’s. They
gave us a tour of their house when we arrived. They bought a beautiful house in
a very nice gated community.</span><br />
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Steve drove us to McNellies Pub and then showed us around
town. We all stopped and found a
geocache and then went by the memorial to the Oklahoma City bombing. <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Then we drove through Steve’s work complex at
Chesapeake Energy. They wanted to try a
Belgian pub and we had very large order of French fires. Then we went back to their house and Steve
and Kim grilled steaks and corn on the cob.
Afterward we watched Ice Road Truckers.
We had dessert to serve but everyone was too full, so we saved that for
tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824934640700920881.post-21824486683426455282012-09-04T07:36:00.000-07:002020-04-22T14:44:16.845-07:00June 4, 2012<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">It was cool this morning and we sat outside to
drink our coffee by the lake. I worked
the Sunday crossword puzzle. Three
ducks slept overnight at our camp and walked around like they had rented it. We
stayed around camp most of the morning and then went to Lowes and then back to
Kim and Steve’s house. They took us to Belle Isle Brewpub and then to the
Republic Gastropub near where Steve works.
I called Coop Brewery to ask if they had a tour. They said that Oklahoma law doesn’t allow
them to serve their beer on premises but we could come in and they would give
us a tour. They will be moving to a
bigger location and one of the owners
of a Houston microbrewery will be coming to help them with the details.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Kim wanted us to go to the Royal Bavaria in
Moore, Oklahoma so we drove there. This
was a German restaurant with a brewpub.
They had really good, fresh baked pretzels. We went to a Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives place for dinner. It is another German restaurant. The schnitzel and bratwurst were really
good. Steve drove us back by his
workplace to show us the garden that the employees planted. This garden is nearly a whole block and is
planted in raised beds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We found six geocaches today. Steve is a natural at finding them. Some of them were hidden very ingeniously. One was in a very small container as you can
tell by the one in Steve’s hand. One was behind a gas pipeline warning sign
and one was under the bottom skirt of a light pole. Jim crawled into roses bushes on another one. The one that was behind an electric junction
box used magnets to hold an electric plate in place and it looked like it was
park of the box. I think we are
beginning to get an idea of how the caches are hidden which will make finding
them easier for us. Back at Steve and Kim’s we had dessert and watched the new
episode of Diner, Drive-Ins and Dives.</span><br />
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was another pretty morning at camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim sat outside awhile with his coffee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fixed leftover steak from Kim and Steve’s
with eggs this morning for breakfast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We hung around camp and didn’t leave until around 10:30.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After hooking up we drove into Edmond to the
post office so I could mail some letters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We got on the tollway and drove to Kirbyville and got a campsite on
Hepburn Lake, a Corps of Engineers park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We got a premium campsite for $1.00 more than a regular and it is at a
shady spot by the lake with a terrace for the picnic table.</span><br />
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We didn’t do anything at all this
afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sat outside and read our
books and watched the boats and jet skis go by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We listened to the birds and the sound of children playing in the
lake. Very relaxing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim got the
binoculars out and we watched the transit of Venus projected onto a piece of
white paper. When the sun started to set we walked to the lake edge and took
pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We didn’t go into the Casita
until 9 pm.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824934640700920881.post-45189086673449263352012-09-02T22:09:00.000-07:002020-04-22T14:43:21.194-07:00June 6, 2012<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Jim went outside around midnight and took a
picture of the moon and it’s reflection on the lake. This morning he got up and took a picture of the sun rising and
it’s reflection on the lake. We left
camp and drove to Tulsa. We stopped at
Kellyville to buy a few items at the Dollar General store. When we got back in the Silverado the air
conditioner wasn’t blowing cold air.
When we got an RV site and unhooked in Tulsa, we were going to take the
Silverado to the Chevrolet dealer two miles down the road. We got in the Silverado and the air
conditioner was blowing cold air. So we
went to the Chevrolet dealer anyway.
The man said he couldn’t tell what was wrong unless the air conditioner
wasn’t working. We drove it the rest of
the day and it seems to be ok.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Jim and I went into downtown Tulsa and had a
beer at McNellie’s pub. We went back to
the Casita and waited for Jim’s friend to get off work. Gale and Kathy took us to Ti Amo, an Italian
restaurant. It was really good. After we ate they drove us through Oral
Roberts University campus. At the
entrance is a very large sculpture of praying hands. We went back to their house and had a nice visit. After we got back to the RV park we did two loads of laundry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824934640700920881.post-58230706921964832642012-09-01T19:56:00.000-07:002020-04-22T14:42:55.033-07:00June 7, 2012<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We left Tulsa and drove to Fort Scott, Kansas. This is where Fort Scott National Historic
Site is located. The fort was
established in 1842 to separate the eastern side of the country which was
settled by the Europeans and the western side which was supposed to be reserved
for the Indians. In the 1840’s when
settlers flocked to California the line was dissolved and the fort was shut
down. In 1854 congress opened the
Kansas and Nebraska territories for settlement and declared that the residents
of those territories could decide by vote whether their states would be free or
slave territory. Abolitionists,
proslavery supporters and free staters got into conflicts and the fort reopened
to quell the violence. This era was
known as “Bleeding Kansas”. The civil
war brought the army back to Fort Scott and there was a large hospital there
for wounded men. In 1873 the army left
for the last time and the fort was sold to the townspeople for homes. In 1978 it became a National Historic Site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We tried to stay at the Fort Scott city park but a group had reserved all
spots and were coming in today. There
is a Corps of Engineers park near Burlington and we decided to try to go
there. As we were entering Burlington,
we noticed a camping sign. They had a
city park with RV spots. Some had
electric and water in a parking lot but we got electric only next the Neosho
River. We are the only ones here and it
was $6.00 a night. After unhooking Jim
grilled some tri-tip steaks I had marinating all day and I fixed baked potatoes
and a salad. Then we went into town to
look around. This is a charming little slow paced town. We found an American
Legion post and had a beer and then went to look for a geocache. This cache was at the other city park by a
spillway. It also had camping and was more suited for larger RVs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We have been following Route 66 for a few
days. There are a lot of lightning
bugs up this way. Very pretty to see.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824934640700920881.post-85731433063492788892012-08-31T13:34:00.000-07:002020-04-22T14:41:31.259-07:00June 8, 2012<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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that was when we were looking for geocaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yesterday we drove 264 miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The weekend was upon us and we needed to find a place to stay before
everyone else got off work and into the parks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jim drove about 5 miles out of Burlington to John Redman Reservoir and
we went into three different campgrounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He really didn’t like any of the sites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I liked them because there was hardly anyone there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first one we went through had one RV and
the second one had none.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The third had
about ten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We continued on to Melvern
Lake Corps of Engineers campground and they only had one space left. All sites
were reserved for the weekend. The one that was not reserved was a handicap
site and they let us have it.</span><br />
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bright yellow/orange Baltimore Oriole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was in the tree beside us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Afterward we played a round of dominos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then we decided to go geocaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We found three.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first was
really easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second, Jim had to
climb a tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The third, we had to wade
through underbrush and poison ivy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
went back to camp and had a bunch of leftovers. We took pictures of the sunset and watched the Astros game on
TV.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824934640700920881.post-59528953699137851152012-08-30T17:38:00.000-07:002020-04-22T14:40:48.374-07:00June 9, 2012<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We took showers this morning and when Jim came
back he noticed there were 2 ticks on him. Then I found another. He got them
yesterday while walking through tall grass.
We looked them up on the internet and they were Lone Star ticks. These almost never carry Lyme Disease.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We left camp and drove to Tallgrass Prairie
National Preserve. On the way we
stopped at an auto parts store and got a new bulb for the Casita’s outside
porch light. Then we drove a scenic
highway through the Flint Hills. These
hills have very little topsoil and the soil can only support grasses. In the valleys you see some trees. There were lots of really pretty houses and
farms along the scenic highway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">After getting to the preserve, we took a 90
minute tour on a bus with the park ranger.
They had buffalo that were brought in from Wind Cave National Park. There were five new calves born in
April. Upon returning back to the
visitor center, we took a self-guided tour of the house, barns and other
buildings on the historic property. On
the way back we went to Wal-Mart and I bought some groceries while Jim updated
the blog for yesterday. We haven’t had
a strong enough signal for dependable internet at camp. Across from Wal-Mart at a Braum’s ice cream
store we stopped to find another quick geocache. Before we left this morning I put some meat in the crock pot and
it was cooked when we got back.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> We played a game pf Phase 10, then took pictures of the sunset again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824934640700920881.post-75267203353061375502012-08-29T17:34:00.000-07:002020-04-22T14:39:41.948-07:00June 10, 2012<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hooked up and drove
about 60 miles up the road to Clinton, Kansas and got an RV site at Lake
Clinton Corps of Engineers, Cedar Ridge campground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a really large lake and has three large campgrounds in
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the way we had to dodge lots of
bicycle riders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were on the Timex
Ironman ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After unhooking we drove
to Lawrence and went to take a picture of a house that Jim’s father lived in while he was a student at Kansas University in the early 1920s.</span><br />
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brewpubs in Lawrence – we had beers at both of them. Then we found two geocaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was in a bicycle shop inside a small
door by a climbing wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other was
in a garden at an Episcopal church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was in a large ammo box sitting in the open by the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We went back to camp and I fixed dinner and
we watched some TV.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We watched a documentary
about “The Wizard of Oz” and it’s supposed to be stormy tonight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope we don’t end up in Oz because of a
tornado since we’re in Kansas.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824934640700920881.post-23229541362386950982012-08-28T20:15:00.000-07:002020-04-22T14:39:00.899-07:00June 11, 2012<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Education National Historic Site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
park headquarters is in the 1928 Monroe school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was an all black school that children all over the city were
bused to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They wanted to go to schools
closer to their homes but those schools were for white children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The previous Supreme Court decision in
Plessy vs. Ferguson made it legal for separate but equal public schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of
Education declared that this was unconstitutional, and their unanimous decision
led to desegregation in public schools.</span><br />
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episode of Diners Drive Ins and Dives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(From now on I will abbreviate this to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Triple D”.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had great
homemade cheeseburgers, shared an order of onion rings and shared a chocolate
malt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We actually had one of those
metal trays that attach to the window of your vehicle. Jim found one brewpub
named Blind Tiger and we went there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had Java Stout and it really had a coffee taste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a good brewpub – they have won eleven Great American
Beer Festival Medals.</span><br />
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Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This church is one of only
eleven churches in the United States that has Tiffany stained glass windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The windows were installed in 1911.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are made out of Favrile glass that was
the invention of Louis Tiffany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a
glass made without paint, enamels or stains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Colors were produced by the development of formulas using additives such
a cobalt, gold, copper etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
formulas were destroyed on order from Tiffany after his death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People have come from all over the world to
see these windows.</span><br />
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hydrants in their yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No lack of
places here for their dogs to do their business!</span><br />
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Missouri. This little town has a very
nice lake and a couple of campgrounds and it is just north of Kansas City,
Missouri. After unhooking we drove to Independence, Missouri to visit the Truman Presidential Library and the Harry S. Truman home. On the way we stopped off at the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">beautiful Vaile
Mansion. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Jim and I went to the visitor center and got
tickets to go through the Truman House. Then
we found two geocaches while waiting for our tour time. After touring Bess and Harry
Truman’s house we went through the Noland house across the street that two of
Harry’s cousins owned. He had been
visiting them when he took a borrowed cake plate across the street to Bess’s
house for his cousins. After Harry and Bess Truman were married they lived in this house which belonged to her grandfather. Truman came back to this house after his presidency and he and Bess
lived here the rest of their lives. The
house was very modest inside (no pictures were allowed).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We also bought tickets and went through the
library. In the foyer there is a large mural painted by Thomas Hart Benton. We watched two movies and saw
all the exhibits. There is a replica of
Truman’s oval office from the White House and also the office he used at the
library after leaving office. Harry and Bess are buried here. Then we
drove into Kansas City and went to Boulevard Brewing. It was 5:30 and they were closed but I talked our way into a few
samples and we even got to meet one of the brewers. Normally you have to be on a waiting list for months to go on a
tour here. He told us about a nearby
brewpub and we went there afterward.
McCoy’s Public House had good beer, too. We talked to a homebrewer from
the KC Bier Meisters homebrew club who was sitting next to us. He gave us some tips on brewpubs to visit in St. Louis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">One of our friends lives in Kansas City and
brews for Gordon Biersch. He formerly owned Brenham Brewery in Texas and also brewed for Gordon Biersch in New
Orleans. Jim called James and got his
voice mail, then called the brewery and he was still at work </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">brewing. We went to visit him and saw his brewing equipment and had some of
the beers he brewed. James brews
outstanding lager beers. It was good to
see James again and we sure miss him.
We got back to camp about 10:30</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We are in Mexico. We didn’t leave camp until noon and we drove to Mexico, Missouri. We got a site at the city
park with a pretty lake. They have 14
sites here and there are only 4 rigs. One is a large 5<sup>th</sup> wheel, one
is a High Low, one is a Lance that fits in the bed of a pick up truck and
us. The couple camping next to us are
from Mission, Texas and were at the singles rally in Bandera just before we had
the Bluebonnet Casita rally. They will
be getting married this year and won’t be able to attend the singles rally next
year. We went to Wal-mart and I cooked
stir-fry and we sat outside. Nothing
much going on today, relaxing! </span><br />
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park was at 11 am, but the camp host let us stay longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We went north to Florida, Missouri and visited the Mark Twain Memorial Shrine. The little house where Mark Twain was born in 1835 is inside
a building that was built specifically for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Also in the building are exhibits about his life, including the original manuscript of Tom Sawyer.
</span>Then we drove to Dr. Edmund A. Babler State Park near St. Louis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got the only site that was not reserved
for the weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will stay here
three nights and leave on Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Near
here is Daniel Boone’s birthplace and burial site that we hope to visit
tomorrow. The roads in Missouri have a lot of orange daylilies blooming wild
like our bluebonnets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They sure are
pretty.</span><br />
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leaving Kentucky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The home was started
in 1803 and finished in 1810.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
the home in which he died in 1820 shortly before his 86<sup>th</sup> birthday.
After touring the Boone home and some other historic homes and a church that
were moved to his home site we drove to Augusta Brewing in Augusta,
Missouri.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a beer and a fresh,
hot pretzel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also stopped at Daniel
Boone’s gravesite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we went back to
camp and sat outside and played Yahtzee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jim’s friend in Longview, Fred, called to tell us his brother, Gale, had
a stroke on June 11<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
just visited Gale and his wife Kathy on June 6<sup>th<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup>in Tulsa and had dinner with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stroke has affected his eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">It got to 93 degrees today. We drove into St. Louis and went to Ulysses
S. Grant National Historic Site. This
was the house (named White Haven – even though he painted it green) of his
wife’s family and the home he lived in after marrying her. He also came here to get away during his
presidency. We continued on to
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial and the Gateway Arch. This is where President Jefferson had Lewis
and Clark start the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase and the west. The arch was started in 1963 and completed
in 1965. They started tram tours in
1967.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We watched a movie about the construction of the
arch and then rode a tram to the top.
The little tram car holds 5 people very snugly, knee to knee and
shoulder to shoulder. We rode with
three men, one of whom loved Houston and wants to move there. He will be in Houston in near future to sing
with the Houston Grand Opera. From the
top we could see Busch Stadium and the Cardinals were playing the Kansas City
Royals. (Kim, this picture is for you!)
Afterward we visited the nearby old courthouse rotunda.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Then Jim wanted to try some beer so we went to
three brewpubs/breweries. The first
was Schlafly Bottleworks where we had a nice pizza and a pint of beer. Then to Urban Chestnut and to Six Row
Brewing. Six Row Brewing is in the old
Falstaff Brewery offices building. They
had a pre-prohibition style lager made with six row barley, flaked maize, and
German noble hops. It was almost as
good as the one Jim used to make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span id="goog_2049928806"></span><span id="goog_2049928807"></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824934640700920881.post-32320119222580334972012-08-22T19:29:00.000-07:002020-04-22T14:35:21.893-07:00June 17, 2012<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">We are in Illinois. We left camp and followed scenic 79 along the Mississippi to
Hannibal, Missouri. This is where the
boyhood home of Mark Twain is and where he got most of his inspiration for Tom
Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. We walked
through Mark Twain’s house and Huckleberry Finn’s house and then saw his
father’s law office and Becky’s Thatcher’s house. Afterward we visited the Mark Twain museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Then we drove to Nauvoo, Illinois and got an RV
site at Nauvoo State Park. We drove on
the Great River Road between Hamilton and Nauvoo alongside the Mississippi River. Our Casita in the picture is right next to the river. Joseph
Smith and the Mormons had a settlement in Nauvoo in the mid 1800s. There is a
large Mormon temple here. On the
morning of June 24, 1844, Joseph Smith and his brother left their families for
the last time from here. They continued to Carthage, Illinois, where they faced legal charges and
eventually death at the hands of a mob.
Jim’s great great grandfather settled in Nauvoo to work in vineyards
that were here. He and his brother had
immigrated from Austria.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4824934640700920881.post-39033687350559466362012-08-21T21:15:00.000-07:002020-04-22T15:01:57.302-07:00June 18, 2012<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">It is very windy today. We went to the Nauvoo
Mormon land office and found Jim’s great uncle’s house (his great grandfather’s
brother). He lived in the Wilford
Woodruff house after the exodus of the Mormons to Utah. Wilford Woodruff was the fourth
president of the Mormons. We then drove
to Carthage and </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">saw the site where Joseph Smith was killed when he was in jail here. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">At the Hancock County Historical Society Jim got some more information on his great grandfather and grandmother and found
out where they were buried. We drove to
the cemetery and saw their headstone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">After coming back from the cemetery we went back
to the Wilfred Woodruff house in Nauvoo and toured it.
We hooked up and drove across the state line to Iowa. Iowa is one of three states I have not
visited -- now I have only two states left.
We drove to Coralville just north of Iowa City and got a site at Sugar
Bottom campground on Lake Coralville, an Army Corps of Engineers lake. After unhooking we drove into Iowa City to
Old Capital Brew Works and talked to the locals. They gave us some really good information on sites to visit in the
area. Jim found Grant Wood's house and
we drove by it. Grant Wood was a painter and one of his famous paintings was
the iconic “American Gothic”.</span><br />
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