Catching up

It’s been a while since I visited my blog.  It doesn’t seem like everyday doing is nearly as interesting as traveling and of course it isn’t.  We have been busy since we got back, at least busy for us.  When you’re retired you don’t have to get everything done in one day or even one week.

Probably the most interesting and enjoyable thing we have done is the annual “Friendship Campout” with our chapter and the other chapters in our region of the Good Sam Club.  The campout as usual was held at Shawnee, Oklahoma at the Pottawatomie Campground.  I don’t remember the exact number of RVs in attendance but I think it was about 40 which made it the largest Friendship Campout to date.

Again I don’t remember how many members of our chapter were there but I do remember we had the most.  Of course it could have been because the regional director, Mona Butts, is from our chapter.  Mona had announced she wouldn’t be in charge of the Friendship Campout next year but later said she had decided to stay for another year.  That was really good news since she does such a great job.  As with most things we do as a chapter, we had lots of good food.  Mona had a local Barbeque restaurant cater one meal and we had a pot luck dinner one evening.

Twila’s gone to Tulsa today with my brother Bill’s wife, Pat, and Twila’s daughter, Terri, so I’m home alone.  We have been busy getting the motor home ready for traveling again.  We had taken a lot of stuff out of the motor home when we went to Alaska.  Some to lighten the load and some because we wouldn’t need it.  For instance, we didn’t take our jeep so I removed the tow bar from the back of the motor home to shorten the length we had to pay for on the ferry.  I now have it re-installed in preparation for going to Texas for the Winter.  I had also taken two spare tires for the motor home with us to Alaska and was really happy we didn’t need them.  I had taken the tires without wheels but they were still really heavy.  I have now moved them back into storage.

Well my mind’s starting to wander so I guess I will quit for now.  We are planning on going to the fair at Oklahoma City this weekend with my brother Bill and Pat.  They also have a motor home and we will be staying at a campground Friday and Saturday nights.