Modern Wagoneers of Oklahoma

Lighthouse built by www.thewoodgod.com

It's Saturday September 29th, it was a fun day of  gathering with old and new friends at Oklahoma Good Sam RV Club Oklahoma Chapter the Modern Wagoneer Sam meeting. We all met at Frank & Ann's home. Frank is an extremely talented retired artist, his art work  lined the halls of their home and was just stunning, to say the least. Paintings, and drawings I was very impressed. Ann had delicious refreshments awaiting us for our lunch break, cake, pies, drinks you know MY KIND of goodies!  My husband and I received our first patch for our Good Sam's vest. I haven't purchased the vest yet, but hubby is not to hip on the idea of wearing his Wal-Mart Greeter vest. To funny! I cannot wait to get them ordered and put all my patches on! This was the first meeting we have attended with the group, and we really enjoyed it! We all pitched in to paint the lighthouse as well as the 24 foot backdrop for the Fall Samboree. It was wonderful seeing familiar faces again it had been since our Summer vacation, when we had found out we had a house fire that we had seen some of our friends.  It was very nice indeed!

Since this was our first meeting and gathering with the Modern Wagoneers group we had never met a few of its members. So that was a special treat for me to make new RVing friends! I cannot wait to go RVing with everyone! What a fun group full of inspiring people! I am so thankful to be a part of it! Appreciate everyone allowing a couple more trouble makers in the group! :)

My new Patch!

Site Seeing With Flat Stanley

 

Guess who is site seeing in Edmond,  Oklahoma? Why it is Flat Stanley visiting all the way from Indiana, courtesy of Zade. He's so excited to get started seeing our community that he was the first one out of the car! 

 First stop on the list since Edmond has several colleges but the one we will be passing by the most is the University of Central Oklahoma, UCO. We know how Flat Stanley loves music, his first stop the UCO Jazz Lab.

Oh Here comes someone now! Flat Stanley wondered if he knew how to play any instruments. Should he ask? He thought. He decided to keep on site seeing instead! There's so much to see!

Just a few blocks from the Jazz Lab is a historical marker that Flat Stanley wanted to see. The "First Schoolhouse" located at 124 E. 2nd Street. It is the first public schoolhouse in Oklahoma Territory in August, 1889. Miss Allie McCormick was the first teacher. School was taught at the school till 1899.

Flat Stanley posing in front of sign.

Mural Painting of a depiction of Edmond, Oklahoma in 1889

Flat Stanley at "The First Schoolhouse"

 Flat Stanley loved seeing the First School of Oklahoma Territory and the mural was so amazing. Not but a few feet away Flat Stanley spotted another Mural on Sherry's Drug Store. He seen Oklahoma Route 66 and decided he must travel down Route 66!

Doesn't he just look so happy to be in Edmond, Oklahoma! He wanted everyone reading to see what downtown Edmond looks like. On the left we have The Edmond Sun, and also there is the oldest commercial structure in Oklahoma County. The building was Peoples Bank and a first National bank at one time. It was a bank till 1956.  There is a historical plaque on the building that tells a brief history. If you take a stroll down the streets of downtown Edmond you can find plaques on many historical buildings. The plaques list the earliest businesses that resided in those present buildings.

 This amazing statue is dedicated to the 1st woman that jumped a train to stake her claim in Oklahoma Territory.

Next stop was the Train Depot Historical Marker, located west of Broadway and North of Second Street near the original train depot site.  The marker is inscribed with a short history of the railroad in Edmond and it's importance.

 It was so hot today, Flat Stanley wanted to go swimming when he heard that there was a water park in Edmond with slides and several pools he couldn't wait to get in the car and go there! So we headed to Pelican Bay Aquatic center. The gates were locked, the pools were drained, they are closed for the winter months. Were so sorry Flat Stanley! But he kept on smiling because he knew there were more places to see!

 Like a beautiful butterfly garden with waterfalls that we discovered on our way to see Spring Creek Park at Lake Arcadia. In June they have fun fishing events for kids and their Dads!

 Just a few miles North of this entrance to Lake Arcadia is Route 66! We took a drive East down the famous America's Highway with the Round Barn  off of Route 66 just a short drive from Edmond to the town of Arcadia.

Flat Stanley was having so much fun site seeing that he fell asleep in the car on the way to our next stop. We decided to call it a day and we will show him more of the Great State of Oklahoma later! Don't miss out on his next adventure!! Stay tuned!

PopUp Times Magazine Publication!

Woo hoo! I have been published in a magazine! PopUp Times that is! I sent in some photos from the MidCon 2012 camping rally that was held at Lake Wissota State park in Chippewa Falls. Wisconsin and some of my pictures were used in the Summer 2012 issue! Isn't that exciting! It is to me! I love camping and I love it more when something like this happens! It makes me giddy!

Thank You, Ron!

Our Popupexplorer.com MidCon Rally buddy Ron sent us this nice card. He had some vehicle problems on his way to the rally, he was about an hour from the rally point of Lake Wissota State Park, Wisconsin and we volunteered to go get him, and tow his camper to the rally point. We were glad we did, it really wouldn't be the same without him. ;) Thanks again Ron for the card! Your a sweetie!

Roaring River State Park, Missouri

 We have arrived at Roaring River Missouri. We were able to get our travel trailer in with no problems. Our campsite was wonderful!

Once I put out my Hummingbird feeder they were fighting to get at the juice. There are some greedy Hummingbirds at The Roaring River State Park that want it all for them selves.

We decided to break out our new bicycles and ride around the park grounds and get some exercise as well as some great snap shots.

 This fellow was rustling around behind our campsite. It is an Armadillo for those of you who never seen anything like it before.

We spotted the playground near the river and I thought I would get a shot for the parents who have children.

This guy wanted my attention. He kept barking at his Momma as if he wanted her to bring him over to me for a meet and greet. She wouldn't do it so I took his picture without her knowledge.

There are an abundance of rainbow trout in the Roaring River being that this is a hatchery. They only allow fishing during certain times of the day.

While the hubby was having fun fly fishing I spotted this little fuzzy wig caterpillar.

Photographed below is the lodge at the Roaring River.

 What else could I possibly see during our stay? Well look who ran through our campsite to say "Hello!"

There are laundry facilities at this campground and I don't know about you but I like to know just how clean these places are so I decided to take a look inside.

 The laundry room wasn't bad at all in my opinion. So lets see what the public shower house looks like.

 There's a pool! You definitely need a pool during the hot summer days of Missouri.

The shot below was a site you had to be there to see. I tried to photograph the memory the best I could. But this family decided it was just to much work for them to pop down their camper to move to another site. They pulled it popped up! I am not kidding! I had to see where these people are from.. no, it can't be OKLAHOMA! Yes, Oklahoma. Seems for the trouble it would have been easier just to pop the thing down.

 Two Hummingbirds fly in to visit and distract me from my fellow Oklahoma peeps.

 I captured a nice dew on the evergreen after a brief rain.

 It is time to say goodbye to Roaring River for this year. On our way home, we spotted wild life on the streets!

This is a shot of Tulsa in the distance and just how dry the river is getting.

Sure hope you enjoyed my photo's! I will be back to share more of Nitty Gritty'a Camping!