Out West Wanderings II
Another 10 hour drive and we arrived yesterday afternoon at Platter Flats Equestrian campground near Calera, Oklahoma. This is a new camp to us and I had registered online at www.recreation.gov. We have had issues with the dot gov site before. We wanted to stay one night, the website said because it was a weekend, we had to register for at least two nights. There was no attendant at the camp or an honor vault where you fill out a form and drop it in with your payment, so I paid for two nights. Also, it said water hookups would not be available as they had been shut off for the winter.
When we got there, a camper was parked in our spot, so I found a maintenance man who helped us by calling the manager and placing us in a different spot.
The campground was very nice. It had cement spaces to park your camper with an electric hookup and cement picnic table. The horses each had their own pipe box stall. We were able to plug in, so had electric and we actually were able to watch a movie before going to bed by plugging my phone into the TV screen.
I was up at 4:00 EST again. After doing chores and packing up we pulled out of our space. There was some clunking sounds and Dan and I both got out to see what it was. We couldn't see a problem, but then again it was still dark and the ground was thickly covered with oak leaves.
It wasn't until we had driven about 50 miles that I heard Dan say. "Oh, no." I could tell by the tone of his voice that something was seriously the matter. "What is it?" I repeated three times before he told me that he had forgotten to unplug from the electric when we left.
We have never made that mistake before and I guess when we got out to check on the noise he must have walked right over the cords hidden in the leaves. We lost the 30 AMP extension cord and the box would need to be replaced in the camper.
You might think that I would be really upset by this, but I could hardly be angry because last year when I was camping alone, I forgot to take down the canopy connected to the camper. I was very distraught when a pine tree did it for me!
Well, until tomorrow. May God bless your day, Pam
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16 Apr 2020
Day #4
January 19, 2020
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Calera, OK to Lubbock, TX
Another 10 hour drive and we arrived yesterday afternoon at Platter Flats Equestrian campground near Calera, Oklahoma. This is a new camp to us and I had registered online at www.recreation.gov. We have had issues with the dot gov site before. We wanted to stay one night, the website said because it was a weekend, we had to register for at least two nights. There was no attendant at the camp or an honor vault where you fill out a form and drop it in with your payment, so I paid for two nights. Also, it said water hookups would not be available as they had been shut off for the winter.
When we got there, a camper was parked in our spot, so I found a maintenance man who helped us by calling the manager and placing us in a different spot.
The campground was very nice. It had cement spaces to park your camper with an electric hookup and cement picnic table. The horses each had their own pipe box stall. We were able to plug in, so had electric and we actually were able to watch a movie before going to bed by plugging my phone into the TV screen.
I was up at 4:00 EST again. After doing chores and packing up we pulled out of our space. There was some clunking sounds and Dan and I both got out to see what it was. We couldn't see a problem, but then again it was still dark and the ground was thickly covered with oak leaves.
It wasn't until we had driven about 50 miles that I heard Dan say. "Oh, no." I could tell by the tone of his voice that something was seriously the matter. "What is it?" I repeated three times before he told me that he had forgotten to unplug from the electric when we left.
We have never made that mistake before and I guess when we got out to check on the noise he must have walked right over the cords hidden in the leaves. We lost the 30 AMP extension cord and the box would need to be replaced in the camper.
You might think that I would be really upset by this, but I could hardly be angry because last year when I was camping alone, I forgot to take down the canopy connected to the camper. I was very distraught when a pine tree did it for me!
Well, until tomorrow. May God bless your day, Pam
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