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Tornado Selfies Are Trending
Salina Campground, KS, April 2025 Around 10 pm on Tuesday, April 1st, our phones went nuts with a tornado warning. I would have expected a tornado watch first, but no, just the warning. Shortly afterwards, it started to pour rain from the sky with pea sized hail. It was windy, but not tornado windy. The…
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Day 1 – Lake Thunderbird State Park, OK Sunset
Lake Thunderbird State Park, OK, March 2025 We have a great view of the lake from our trailer dining room take. Though these pictures were taken as we were talking around the park.
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Highway 66 Museum, Clinton Oklahoma
Clinton, OK, March 2025 I had to drag John to another place with cancel stamp. This was the Clinton, Oklahoma (same place the Highway 66 cafe) Highway 66 Museum. We started off with seeing the cement mixer that was used to make the road. I discovered I’m just as tall as the Coca Cola Safety…
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Washita NWR: Centennial Trail
Washita National Wildlife Refuge, OK, March 2025 The state park and campgrounds are on the south eastern edge of Foss lake, and Washita National Wildlife Refuge is on the north western edge of Foss Lake. We had to go to Washita NWR because they have a cancel stamp for the national parks book. Sadly, the…
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Rhema Christmas Light
Broken Arrow, OK (Click here for a high-res panorama. You will have to go back to return here.) Note: There are multiple images and videos of moderate to large size that might take some time to load. We are trying a static cover image for the video to make the page load faster. If you…
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Making Christmas (Trees)
Beggs, OK, December 2024 So, what do you do for a Christmas tree when your combined living room, kitchen, and dining room is about 13’x12′. You might think, “Oh, you buy a small tree and store it for the year!”. Except, we do not have enough storage space. “Oh, you buy a small tree, and…
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Turkey Mountain
Tulsa, OK, November 2024 It was a nice day and we needed some sun, so we went to Turkey Mountain to hike a few miles. Turkey Mountain is an Urban Wilderness setup on the west side of Tulsa for hiking and mountain biking. It is part of the River Parks system; the home page is…
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Happy Thanksgiving
Cushing, OK, November 2025 We had Thanksgiving Lunch* at John’s aunt’s house this year. There was turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, dinner rolls, crescent rolls, deviled eggs, salad, stuffing, sage sausage stuffing, fruit salad fluff, cranberry jelly, peach pie, pumpkin pie, and pecan pie. I am sure I am missing something. All the…
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The Kansas Capital Building
Topeka, KS There is No Place Like Dome Kate found out that you are allowed to attend a free tour that takes you up to the cupola and balcony at the top of the Kansas Capital Building. John found out that he is still afraid of heights. Kate came out ahead in this deal. Most…
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Store/Cafe at Devil’s Den State Park, AR
West Fork, AR, November 2024 We had planned to stay at Devil’s Den State Park in Arkansas in February of this year, but the arctic blast put the kibosh on that plan. Later in the year, Kate had read that the road to Devil’s Den was windy and not easily navigated by large RVs. It…