Family Time and Medical Visits For All

After leaving Huntsville, Texas we spent a few nights at an Army Corps of Engineer park on Liberty Lake in Texas called Navarro Mills. It was the dirtiest campsite we ever stayed at. The firepit hadn’t been cleaned in weeks if not months – it was full of ashes and trash. There was pop tops from cans, water bottles, beer cans, lids, chip bags etc all over the site. It was very obvious the park hosts there did NOT do any site cleaning. The bathrooms we saw were cleaned by a professional company that came in to the park to clean – we opted to not check them out considering how filthy our site was. This spot was a huge shock after how hard we’d just worked with our fellow park hosts to keep a state park looking beautiful. Despite the trash in our site we had a pretty view of the water out our windows.

We arrived in Oklahoma about 10 days ago and it’s been a busy few days. Both Mike and I had doctor appointments, bloodwork, and tests to catch up on as well as the dogs needed all their yearly shots as well. We also spent Easter Sunday with family and have done some helping with fixing up a patio and cooking dinner at Mike’s folks house. The dogs have had some fun times over there running off leash in the fenced in backyard. We love getting to take them over there as the campground we stay at near their house has a plethora of dog owners that seem to not have a leash for their dogs – this leads to our dogs wanting to protect us and they aren’t fond of the off leash dogs.

We have firmed up our plans for our drive to South Dakota when we leave here the 25th of April and the reservations have been made for our stops along the way. Having made this trek a few times to sightsee and spend time with family we have a couple of KOA campgrounds that we prefer along the way it helps that they are both convenient to the highway we will be traveling on. The KOA in Salina, Kansas we are staying at for a few days and we picked one of their patio sites so we can have campfires and grill while we stay there. Our other KOA is in Ogallala, Nebraska and while it doesn’t have a lot of amenities it’s a nice place to spend a night.

We spent some time this week planting a few plants to take with us on our journey. In Huntsville just after Valentine’s I had found a dianthus/carnation that I transplanted to a bigger pot this week. To our planting spree we added a patio cherry tomato plant, a planter with parsley and basil, and a geranium plant. Tessa has been enjoying playing in the dirt planting this week.