September 29th - October 1st - On the Way to Albuquerque

We left home Monday morning at 7:30 a.m. and arrived in Quapaw, Oklahoma at 2:00 p.m. We stayed at the Indian Casino RV Park there. Upon arriving they told us that we got a night free if we had a Casino Card. We set up, unhooked, and drove to the nearby casino to get a card. This was the first casino we have ever been to that NOWHERE was there a sign saying "Casino", not on the road signs, not on the buildings, nowhere until you got inside. Weird. It is on the Quapaw Indian Reservation. Maybe they have rules against that, I don't know. We got our card and Kelly had to check out the machines in short order. Our "free" night at the campground ended up costing $40.00 - Kelly's loss at the machines.  These people aren't dumb.

We went back to the RV and sat out to enjoy a nice breeze, with a cordial, on the shady side of the rig. Here is a picture.

It is a very nice "concrete" campground with electric and water hook ups. Here is another picture of the area behind us. It goes on for many rows.

We had 50 amp hookup problems at Rend Lake a couple of weeks ago. This time I hooked up and the exact same problem, electric only on one leg of the 50 amp plug. Thus only half of the electric in Marge would work. I connected to the 30 amp line and everything worked. We would use it. I took my 50 amp surge protector to another campsite, plugged it in, and it worked fine on both lines so I knew it was not my equipment. I then went to plug back into the 30 amp line at our site and the 30 amp breaker would not reset. Crap. I then had the idea of adapting the 50 amp down to 30 am to see if everything in Marge worked and it did. We just had to watch our electric usage. I let the office know that the outlets were bad on our site. She said she would send maintenance out and offered to move us to another site. I told her we were already set up and unhooked so we were fine. Nobody ever came by to check out the electric pedestal.

We left at 7:00 a.m. and headed to Amarillo. This was our longest leg, 459 miles. No issues other than there are limited filling stations on the turnpike. I couldn't get over for the last one and only had a quarter of tank remaining. For some reason the gauge drops like a rock below a quarter tank on this truck. I was down to the red warning line when we spotted a filling station with diesel off the turnpike. We got off and filled up. Close call. Based on the fuel I put in we only had about two gallons left which at 8 miles to the gallon is only 16 miles. We probably wouldn't have made it to the next station. That would have made for a bad day.

We had to pay to get back on the turnpike. The sign that said "Exact Change Only" and "$1.75" we got out the money but as I pulled up to the toll booth (no attendant) the sign said "Four Axles - $3.00". Fortunately we were able to scrape together another $1.25 in quarters (you couldn't use bills or credit card). We will be sure and have a bunch of quarters available for the trip home. This $1.75 was in addition to the $12.50 we paid when we got on some miles back.

Our next fuel stop was near the Texas line. It was a Love's Truck Stop with a Subway so we went in to eat a sandwich since it was well past noon. We got in there and there were absolutely no tables. We got our sandwich and went out and sat in the truck and ate it. We never saw that before anywhere.

As we entered Texas it started raining. It rained all the way to Amarillo and was pouring rain when we got to our destination. They were rebuilding the Interstate in that area and we could not get off at the exit for the RV Park. We had to go down to the next exit and wind our way through a subdivision and through school traffic to come in the back way. Here is a picture of our site with water standing everywhere.

It is 69 degrees out and the rain let up a little so I filled the water tank. It could be raining harder in the morning. We need to arrive at the Fiesta with a full water tank. I then hooked Marge up to campground water. We will dump in the morning after showers. It is a nice enough place for one night with decent wi-fi so I can do this blog.

We have no idea what the wi-fi or internet or cell service will be like in the RV parking area at the Balloon Fiesta. I will blog when I can. The weather is supposed to be great. It continues to pour rain here.