Finally, on the road again--well kind of

We are still pretty much home bound while Joanne's mom continues her cancer treatments. It has now been five months since we returned home from the east coast and have been sitting. Well, we actually are out in the coach and away from home, at least for a few days. Our Oklahoma based motor home club, The Birds of a Feather, is having it's first meet of the year in Guthrie, OK. Although it is only about 40 miles north of our house we are really in an RV park with other RVer's.

We arrived here before noon yesterday and were the second coach to show up. By the end of the day we had seven of the eight coaches here. The other arrived this morning. We started off today with donuts and coffee and some good fellowship with some long time friends. Actually, we have been eating most of the day. At noon one of the members, who lives close by, told us about a new Grill just down the road and claimed they served the best onion burgers around. So, most of us loaded up and went to see if he was right. Sure enough they were great onion burgers. This evening we went the other direction to the town of Guthrie to have dinner at The Stables. This is an old livery stable that has been converted into a fantastic BBQ cafe.

Guthrie is a very neat, old town. In 1907, the year Oklahoma became a state, Guthrie was the original capitol city. There were many arguments in the government and with the people of keeping the capitol in Guthrie or moving it to Oklahoma City. In 1910, in the dead of night a group of state legislators "stole" the state seal and moved it to Oklahoma City, declaring this the new state capitol. As history shows the capitol stayed to the south in the larger city and Guthrie fell on hard times. Now much of it has been refurbished and it is a great city of turn of the century buildings and home. They celebrate the 1889 land run here, state hood day and have many "Territorial" festivals throughout the year, harking back to the days that Oklahoma was actually made up of two U.S. territories, Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory.