Fort Chaffee, AR

After our visit to the Precious Moments Chapel, we got on the road again heading to Ft Chaffee, AR for the night.

Oklahoma City, OK

We left Texarkana, TX/AR around 7:30 this morning stopping at the Rockwell RV Park in Oklahoma City. We'll be here until Saturday morning then to Moberley, MO for a couple of days. While in Oklahoma City, we are having full services done on the motorhome engine and generator at Cummins Southern Plains. Also while in the city, I have to renew my Class "A" Commercial Drivers License and vehicle registrations for both our pickups and the motorhome.

One of our followers asked me a question about Texarkana. "(Texarkana) Right on the (Texas/Arkansas) border. Who do they cheer for during football season?"

Texarkana, TX/AR

We left Betty's RV Park around 8:30 this morning on the first leg of our journey to Oconto, WI, stopping sor the night in Texarkana, TX/AR. Next stop will be in Oklahoma City, OK for 3 nights.

Oklahoma City, OK

We got on the road around 8:30 AM this morning leaving Clarksville, AR heading to Oklahoma City, OK arriving here around 2:00 PM. Everything went well. We are staying at the Rockwell RV Park on the west side of Oklahoma City. The park has an indoor heated swimming pool and hot tub, free Wi-Fi and cable TV at all the sites. We stopped in Checotah, OK for fuel taking on 66 gallons of diesel at $3.219 a gallon. Total price - $211.84. We have used 135 gallons of diesel since we left Oconto, WI costing us a total of $450.13. We have travelled 122 miles since we filled up in Checotah and still have 713 miles to go to get to Presidio, TX.

Clarksville, AR

We left Marion, AR around 9 AM this morning driving 227 miles to Clarksville, AR where we are staying at the Spadra Army Corps of Engineers campground overlooking the Arkansas River. We had no problems on our drive today. We will be here for a week while Barb visits her sister Frances. From here we will be going to Oklahoma City, OK to visit our daughter Evon and our two granddaughters, Kristella and McKenzie.

Marion, AR

We left the Cherokee Hills Campground around 10 AM this morning heading 170 miles south to Marion, AR. We had no problems today on our trip. As we travelled south, we seen gas prices as low as $2.75 a gallon in south east Missouri. We had planned on staying at the ABC campground but when we got here we found that it is now the Memphis KOA. I never would have planned a stop at a KOA. Next time I'll call ahead for availability. OWFISH! We leave tomorrow morning for Clarksville, AR to visit Barb's sister Frances for a week.

Jackson, MO

We left this morning around 9:30 AM heading to our next stop at the Cherokee Hills Campground in Jackson, MO. Today was only a 170 mile trip and everything went fine.


Our route took us through the middle of Saint Louis, MO. We stopped in Barnhart, MO for fuel and bought 66 gallons of diesel for $238 ($3.60 a gallon) after driving 593 miles since our last fill up on May 1st.

After we setup and met the owners of the campground, Barb and I both fell in love with this place. This place is not fancy, but the spaces are large, it's quiet and peaceful. The campground hasn't been around very long and there are lots of work that still needs to be done. They have just received their license to operate a beer bar at the office and Barb & I were their first customers. There is free Wi-Fi available here at the office but it's a weak signal. Someone with my experience can fix that problem though. They would like to make Wi-F available throughout the campground but that may be next to impossible because of all the trees. We may come back next spring and workamp for them for a couple of months. Our next stop will be in Marion, AR just north of West Memphis, AR.

Please note: This is a rustic campground with some RV hookups, not an RV Resort. We stayed here under Passport America.

Extended our Stay

We have extended our stay here at the Holtwood Campground in Oconto, WI for another week as we wait for our vintage yacht, the M/V Shangri-La, to be shrink wrapped.

The last couple of days it has been cold in the morning requiring us to turn the furnace on to warm things up.

When we leave here we will be heading to Clarksville, AR to visit Barb's sister Frances, then to Oklahoma City to visit my daughter Evon and the girls, then we will start heading to our winter home in Presidio, TX.