We left St. Louis and the casino behind a little after 10 a.m. Not a great travel day – it was pouring! Poor Rob was soaked after hitching up the car and disconnecting the utilities. Certainly not a fun day for a 3 hour drive. Except for one period of time, maybe about 45 minutes, it rained the entire way.

Our next destination was RV 66 Express RV Park in Marshfield, MO. Around 1 p.m. we received a call from them, explaining that the people on the site they had assigned to us (#14) had decided to stay another night so they were changing us to site #13 which was the same size as #14. When we arrived there around 2:30 p.m. because it was still raining, I didn’t take any pictures or walk around to check out the campground. It was a quiet night – the only excitement was a beautiful full rainbow once the rain stopped.

The next morning, it was our typical trip to a local nearby (within walking distance) breakfast restaurant, Grillos Cafe in Marshfield, MO.

After breakfast, we were once again on the road. It would be an easy, but long for us (over 3 hours), but thankfully sunny drive, to our next stop, Brush Springs COE Campground in Sand Springs, OK for a four night stay.

We arrived there a little after 2 p.m. Our initial impression was that it seemed like a nice park. However, when we pulled up to the site that we had reserved (#17), we were a little concerned about the “camper” on site #18. There were two tents, no vehicle and the picnic table was covered with stuff. The site was a mess and there was no privacy between #17 and #18. If we had a campfire, we would be in direct view of the unkempt mess. An overnight wouldn’t have mattered, but for four nights we would have obviously preferred a more private arrangement. We quickly got on to recreation.gov and luckily Site #16 was still available and a healthy distance from #18. After talking to the camp host, I went on-line and changed our reservation. Easy peasy! Once that was done, the host came over with firewood.

Rob had scheduled an appt. with Safelite to come and fix the ding from a rock that hit the windshield (my side but luckily above my field of vision). After that, we took a walk around the park.

During our stay we took a ride to the Keystone Dam and enjoyed a decent breakfast at the nearby Crescent Cafe in Prattville, OK.

On October 30th, we left Brush Hill COE campground around 10:15 a.m. and headed for El Reno Lake Park, in El Reno, OK, a county campground we had visited before for a one night stay. Since this campground is first come, first serve and it was the day before Halloween, we were concerned that there wouldn’t be any sites available. But there were plenty of sites available when we arrived, we selected site #40.

Within 5 minutes, the camp host (same woman who had greeted us on our previous visit) came over in her golf cart with instructions on how to pay the $25 for our site. During our conversation with her, we learned that Sid’s Diner was closed on Sundays. Darn! We were so looking forward to one of their burgers. She suggested another burger joint but they were closed also.

Once we were set up, we spent some time talking to our next door neighbors in an Air Stream towed by a Sprinter van. They were there because they were having problems with the transmission of the van.

Instead of Sid’s burgers, we grilled two of the Wagu burgers that we had bought at Yoders in Shipshewana. Topped with sauteed onions and fresh brioche rolls, our burger obsession was appeased. Yum!

The next morning our craving for a visit to Sid’s was satisfied after all with breakfast. Two eggs, bacon, hashbrowns and Texas toast. So YUM! Gotta love this greasy spoon and their ubiquitous use of butter! We had a chance to talk with Adam, the owner (and Sid’s son), whom we had met during our last visit, for a minute before we left. Nice guy!

Arriving back at the coach after breakfast, we prepared for our departure and headed out to our next destination in Shamrock, Texas.

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