After dropping the UHaul and setting up the travel trailer, we enjoyed some R & R at the lakeside RV Park. We were in situated near Salina, OK, in the Northeastern part of Oklahoma in Cherokee Country. The man who had sold us the trailer was part Cherokee and part Irish. "A Bad Mix" he joked. :-) He told the children about how the Cherokees had found in the civil war, on the side of the South. In fact, the very grounds we were staying on had once been a battlefield. The girls and I loved the host's Colonial style house which was situated at the entrance of the RV park and which dated back to the early1800's.
We had been warned that it was tornado season and that everyone had been a little on edge because there had been quite a few in the neighboring states but they had been avoided. Like they were expecting ;the big one;. We are definitely not superstitious folks but when the locals are looking nervously at the sky at every cloud, you start getting nervous. It was a bit unnerving really.
Gettin' all hooked up!
The children had a blast running around after being cooped up in a motel or on the road for 5 days..
Ash and Mandy enjoy the lake..
the vegetation was quite different from what we are used to.. I would describe it as marshlands
We left in the evening. It turned out there was an issue with the wires connecting the brake lights in the trailer so Grady and Ryan spent most of the day running back and forth to an auto parts store trying to diagnose and fix the problem. Once fixed, we determined to start out even though it was already 7 or so pm. We were anxious to get a little further west.
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