OHMYGOSH…Oct. 21, 2010

Just a short post.  We are now and have been in Coffeyville, Kansas, for a little over a week.  We are among 600 or so workampers who have come to southeastern Kansas to work the Christmas peak season for Amazon.com…this is our third year to do this.  We will go for our meet and greet on Sunday afternoon and then actually start working on Monday with an all day orientation.  We have worked the night shift the past 2 years but won’t get our assignments until Monday.

Anyway, we are staying at an older mobile home park, Buckeye MHP,  that has opened up to us RVers.  We are in the back of the park with 9 other rigs and we still have room for 3 more rigs in our area.  There are probably 12 other RVers scattered among some of the mobile homes that remain.  The owners are super nice as is the lady that works in the on site office for them.  They are putting in bathrooms and a laundry room that will be super nice for the RVers that don’t have laundry facilities in their rigs.  This is a picture of our space. 

The biggest plus for me, besides seeing friends, is the fact that they have 2 ponds on the premises…yippee!  I found a bait shop where I was able to buy minnows (my bait of choice) and have been fishing the past 3 afternoons.  I was not even getting a bite for 2 days but yesterday was rewarded for my patience…see my bass Mark!   

Then a short time later my friend, Natalie, hauled in this monster.   

Her catch was soon followed by my last catch of the day…mmm, perhaps not a trophy fish.  Whoops, forgot to take of picture of the 3 inch monster.

The weather has been absolutely beautiful…warm fall days with cool nights…just doesn’t get much better plus we are only 60 miles from Tulsa, OK where we can get a Whataburger hamburger, 50 miles from great barbecue brisket in Joplin, MO and only 3 miles from some of the best Mexican food we have ever had…El Pueblito right here in Coffeyville.  We are also within a short distance of several casinos. Life is good.

Moving on.

Backtracking A Bit October 4, 2010

I am going to be jumping around a bit trying to get caught up on some of the things we have done and places we have been. 

When we left Hill City, SD we travelled to Pierre, the capital of South Dakota.  We learned early on that Pierre is pronounced “Pier” and not “P-air”…hope you understand that.  We stopped at a rest area on our way and saw the folks below.  Sorry it is such a bad picture but I had to take it through the screen because I did not want them to know that I was taking their picture.  I have never seen anyone with their laundry hung out to dry at a rest area before.  I thought it was okay to post this picture since you can’t identify the people.

We stayed at a really nice city park in Fort Pierre which is just across the river from Pierre.  We had full hookups with 50 amps for $10.00 a night.  We stayed 2 nights and we were right on the Bad River.  They probably have about 15 spaces.  Would definitely stay there again.

At this location, Lewis and Clark made the first contact with the Teton Sioux.

This is the covered pavilion located at the park.

The leaves were starting to show their brilliant fall colors as we made our way into Minnesota.  We are starting to stay at small city parks when possible.  As we are totally self contained we don’t need hookups for at least several days.   

Moving On…