Day 7
23 June 2011
It's Kind of Peculiar Around Here!

We're in Peculiar, Missouri at the Peculiar Park Place RV Park. It is just right off Highway 71 and, I will admit, just a little bit noisy. It was a pleasant evening, cool and clear. So having windows open to let in fresh air (always preferable to running the AC) helped it be a little noisier. Having the fan on to circulate that fresh air helped drown out the noise. So it wasn't too bad.


Yesterday (Wednesday) was NOT the kind of day I like to drive. It was a day filled with tremendous wind! Sometimes it was hard to stay in the right lane with the gusts hitting hard. I would have preferred to have waited, but that was not to be. So we drove. And I have the sore shoulders to go with it. Not much else to say about the day. Long, hard driving. Sometimes days like that are necessary but they are not the reason we go RVing.

Today we are back on the road with a little shorter day of about 4 hours driving time (although I'll take a little longer since I don't drive the speed limit on most roads). We're headed for the Taylor Ferry campground on Fort Gibson Lake, OK. It's a Corps of Engineers campground. They are usually excellent places to camp and the price will certainly be right! With my "Interagency Senior Pass" the daily rate is $9.00. You can't beat that (unless it's free).


Friday we will get to Shawnee, OK, the site of "Circle Your Wagons in Shawnee," the 2011 Fleetwood RV National Rally. We'll be here through Wednesday, June 29. The Rally is at the Heart of Oklahoma Expo Center. Who knows? We may even see some folks we saw last year at DuQuoin, IL, where the theme was "Bring Your Toys to Illinois." (They do like cutsy titles, don't they?)