OCTOBER 2001

On Wednesday, October 3, we left Tuttle Creek State Park and drove to visit our friends, Ron and Donna Monroe, in Columbia, Missouri. We had a wonderful two day visit with them.

On Saturday, we headed back to Junction City for our appointment with the Horizons factory on Monday. We spent the night at Bloomington Park, a BLM campground on Clinton Lake near Clinton, Kansas. It was a very nice park with water and electrical hookups.

We arrived at the factory Sunday afternoon, parked, and hooked up to electricity. There were other people there, too, waiting for service on Monday.

On Monday, they started work on our rig...repairing the king pin support, packing the wheel bearing, and doing some additional cabinetry work inside. When the welder in Spruce Grove, B.C., had done the repairs on our king pin, he was not able to get to the section that had actually broken unless the front fiberglass was taken off. Since that was beyond the pervue of anywone in the area (or at least beyond what we wanted anyone else but the factory to do), he just did what he could and added additional supports. We told Horizons to put back all the supports that had been put in...they didn't think it was necessary, but did so after we insisted.

While in Junction City, we went out to have a Mexican food dinner and went to lunch with Paul and Stephanie Bernhagen who were also at the factory having some work done on their fifth wheel.

We left the factory late Wednesday afternoon and drove just a few miles to West Rolling Hills at Milford Lake where we boondocked for free.

On Thursday, we stopped at Sam's Club in Salina, Kansas to do shopping. We then headed to Venango Park on Kanopolis Lake near Marquette, Kansas, another nice BLM campground with water and electrical hookups.

The next day we drove to Dodge City, Kansas, where we spent a couple of days at the Gunsmoke Trav-L-Park. We were going to visit Boot Hill, but they wanted an entrance fee to get in and it didn't look all that interesting, so we passed.

On Sunday, the 14th, we left Dodge City and drove to another BLM park, Supply Park North on Fort Supply Lake near Fort Supply, Oklahoma. Another nice BLM park (as are all the BLM campgrounds we been to so far) with water and electrical hookups.

The next night we spent at Great Plains State Park near Mt. Park, Oklahoma and then at the Elks Club in Breckenridge, Texas, the night after that.

On Wednesday, the 17th, we arrived at our home Coast to Coast park, Suncountry Resort, in Whitney, Texas, where we spent a relaxing two weeks. We found a great Mexican food restaurant in Whitney, Tres Hermanos, where we ate dinner on two different nights. Earl also saw a doctor for the reoccurring problem he has with the glands on either side of his neck. We were going to take a trip into Waco, but just never got around to it since we were enjoying just being lazy slobs.

Finally, on Tuesday, the 30th, we left Whitney and drove to New Braunfels, Texas, where we spent the night at the Rip Griffin Truck Stop. Probably won't try that again...too noisy!

The next night we spent at Lake Casa Blanca State Park in Laredo, Texas. This is probably another park we won't bother coming back to as we didn't find the RV parking spaces very nice and it's quite near the freeway.