Saturday, October 20, 2012

Late October Camping

We are at the state park campground on Pamona Lake in Kansas...  Our family has declared this as the season wrap up for camping...  Our sons are winterizing their rigs when the weekend is over and placing them in storage..

The older son Chris leaves his rig right here in this little town..  Vassar, Kansas is on the South side of the lake and the locals make a business out of serving the users of the state park..

Its been dreary and cold all day as we left the city in 50 degree overcast..  The drive out here takes a little over an hour, and we arrived around 3 PM..  We were told to go pick out a spot and take the card from the site post to the office at the maintenance shed.

We picked a fairly nice spot with an open field behind us and evergreen trees to divide the sites....  I made sure that the spots around us were vacant as well knowing that we really needed three sites...

We sneaked across the street and swiped the card out of the post for that campsite so it looked like it was reserved....  And really it was reserved too because when Ben arrived he went up and paid for it...  But I'm betting that  its not how they thought it should be done.....

This evening we went back into the town of Pamona about 9 miles East of here and had a Pizza fest... Ordering some of the biggest pies available with oodles of toppings.........

But tonight it is to be very cold into the 30 before dawn, so perhaps we will need to bundle up some....  The kids have a campfire going on Ben's site, so I will have to go see how cold it is here after I post this.....

More later, if I can get this to post.... We only have one bar with an external antenna.....  This place really is Far Far Away......

Retired Rod

4 comments:

  1. Your post came through loud and clear.

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  2. A pizza fest and a big campfire, modern day camping at it's best, when I take the Grand kid's to the Lake most stuff they want comes frozen. I may have to buy and add on freezer one of these days. Be safe out there. Sam & Donna...

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  3. You guys are really brave to go camping so late in the year. You must be all bundled up for sure.

    That pizza fest in town sounded like a lot of fun.

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  4. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. That is way too cold for me. I know it occasionally gets that cold here but I am so miserable when it does. Next week in the 80's and just perfect. I know I keep saying that but I am so happy. But you do have the family with you and that makes all the difference. Have a great time and stay warm.

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