Another short adventure in the coach

We actually got to take the coach out again this past weekend. We left out mid-morning last Thursday and headed to southeast Oklahoma to Robbers Cave State Park. There we joined up with our local RV club, the Birds of a Feather. This was the club's second outing of the year. We had a total of nine coaches making up this month's get-together.

Robbers Cave got it's name from a set of caves high up in the cliffs of this area where some of the more notorious gangs used to hide out. These included the James Brothers and the Dalton's. The state park now covers several hundred acres and has some great camping areas. We had full hookup and a concrete pad that was just about the most level spot we have ever set up. The only draw back to this park is there is no cell phone service, no TV reception and no WiFi. I was so bored in the evenings I was in bed by 10:00pm, a new record for me.

Thursday night several of us went into town to a Mexican restaurant for dinner. Now, as most folks know, I don't eat Mexican food. No problem, this place had almost as many Italian dishes as it did Mexican. Friday and Saturday mornings, as is normal for this group, we started off each day with donuts and coffee and a good gabfest. Friday night all 18 of us went to a neat little restaurant up in the hills. The had a menu that included everything from catfish, frog legs to BBQ. They also had some of the best home made pies you could ask for. On Saturday night, instead of our regular pot luck we had a wiener roast in the camp pavilion. Afterward we built a big fire down in the coach area and had a good visit until it started to rain around 8:00pm. We also did some exploring in the park. Due to all the rains the creeks running through the park were overflowing and all three of the small lakes were full and running over their spillways. The trees and flowers were all in bloom. Especially pretty were the dogwood trees that grow wild in the area.

Since we had no TV or computer connection I had to get my fix somewhere. The folks in the office said the nearest WiFi was at the McDonald's in town, about six miles away. As it turned out there were several free WiFi connections along the main street. I wound up Friday night sitting in the car in front of a closed Radio Shack store answering my e-mails. This is not all that unusual since I run into this problem quite often in our travels and I have become very adept in working with the laptop sitting on the steering wheel.