LAST LEG OF RV TRIP TO HOME

Our stay at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City was wonderful and restful. Now we were heading to Texas so we went next door to the gas station to fuel up for the trip. Leaving the pump area, somehow a pole ended up embedded into the rear of our RV. This was not a good way to start our trip home. Government property damage has to have reports written up, after 35 minuets, they decided the steel post was not damaged so we could go on our merry way.



We were meeting my daughter Chrissy and her family along with her neighbor and her family in Temple, Texas on Belton Lake. This is 40 minuets away from Ft. Hood. My son-in-law, Eric brought his boat and his neighbor Wayne brought their boat also. They rented the screen shelters and pitched tents out side.

We managed to eat, drink, play in the lake the 3 days we were there.





The wild life was everywhere. The deer would come right up to your site and wait for you to feed them. The wild turkeys were all over. What a shame it wasn't near Thanksgiving.


We had a great spot near the lake with a lot of land around us.



This is the end of a great Labor Day weekend.


Heading home to San Antonio. Unloaded the RV and left it parked out front. Our neighbor called us about 7:45 pm and said look out your back door. What a shock! We could smell smoke the minuet I opened the back door. We started watering the fence, yard and the house. They evacuated the apartments 3 blocks down and people in the homes 2 streets away. We were getting papers out of safe and thinking of getting the RV out of the area when they contained it.
It started up again, but after 15 minuets they contained it again. That was to close for me.


Well that's it for the RV trip. We traveled 6,500 miles, drove through 22 states, had 2 accidents in the RV, one in the car, but God had our back the whole trip. We were gone 4 months and not one time did we want to come home. Time to fix the car and the RV then plan our next trip for next year.

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK

We are staying at Tinker AFB in OK City. Our site is across the street from this stocked pond. The sunsets are great. We have been in the record breaking weather for 4 days. 105, 108 then yesterday was 110 degrees with winds blowing 20 to 30 miles per hour. Hard to sit outside.

We visited the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. It was air conditioned and had many statues with some of the old Western actors. You may even see a criminal in jail.

They had a American Native Gallery, American Rodeo Gallery, Firearms Gallery, and a Art of the West Gallery.


OK City tried to copy our River Walk. I said they tried. It is only 1 mile long and only 3 restaurants on the River. They have many cast iron statues and paintings and even a Mosaic in Bricktown downtown of OKC. The driver on our water taxi had been in San Antonio for three years.

The Oklahoma City National Memorial. Dedicated to the victims of the Murray Federal Building bombing. The chairs are symbolic of those who died in the bombing.

The one thing we have not done on any of our trips was take in a ball game. This is a AAA Farm Team for the Houston Astro's. The Oklahoma City RedHawks Vs. the Iowa Cubs. What a great game. RedHawks won 2-1. A full day of site seeing.



We leave tomorrow and do a one night say in Burleson,TX,then on to Belton Lake to camp with my daughter Chrissy and family for 4 nights then to San Antonio on the 6Th.

JOPLIN, MISSOURI

We stopped in Joplin overnight on our way to Oklahoma City. We went to the postoffice and saw the results from the tornado 5 to 6 months ago. There is no words for the pictures below, except each piece of wood on the curb belonged to a family at some time and nothing is left of the past except trash. We only drove 3 blocks to get these pictures. It was so depressing and heartbreaking.