Oh boy, did we ride out a storm during the night last night. We had to stay in the overflow area, no trees, no shade, near a pond at the campground. Sometime during the night we heard thunder and then rain like I’ve never heard before, with some hail and wind. This kept up for nearly 5 hours, until wee morning hours. Lost power sometime during the storm. Very nice to just mash a button from inside camper and have generator come on to run the ac in the bedroom. Power was still out when we left. The little pond was overflowed, near the camper – it was a Noah and the Ark experience, we just didn’t get lifted into the water. We also found out that the 5th wheel doesn’t leak. She has a name – Boley. There is an explanation – it will come at a later time. Didn’t leave until 11:00 and made it into Oklahoma – we were only a few miles from the state line. There was a lot of tree limbs down in the park and when we left, we stopped and asked some guys for the best way to head to Tulsa – they said to avoid the area we were going to go because of the storm damage – some roads and bridges washed out and lots of trees down. We went a little north and headed towards Siloam Springs and found a state park near there to stay. The land is very lush, pretty. From southern Arkansas, where there was lots of cotton as we traveled north we began seeing rolling hills, some rocks in the hills and it changed from crop agriculture to cattle and dairy farms. Beautiful horses all over Arkansas and into Oklahoma. REAL cowboys came in the steak house to eat as we were leaving – looked like they’d been out working on the ranch, horse trailer with horses and the older man was bow legged like he’d been riding since he started walking. The real give away was the jingle bobs on their spurs – I heard them coming before I turned around and saw them. Yep – we are in Oklahoma – home of Garth, Reba, Vince, and Carrie and us right now, as home is where we park it!
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