Back in the pasture with Randy & Devyn

Well, how many times have you seen this picture?  It's not the picture it's spending time with Randy and Devyn.  We're back for most of the summer.  It's cold and damp, we are breaking out the heaters!  That's frost on the truck.

We return early to see a few of Devyn's soccer games.  She and another girl play on the Rush's boy's traveling team in Jackson.

                                     They lost this game.

We attended the high school's first guitar concert......It's one of the classes our straight A student is taking.

Check out her serious concentration...........

We also attended the high school honor society awards.......

                     She was recognized in math and science.

Here's Dan, her boyfriend for a year now......just like Judy and I meeting in high school.

Judy and I spent some time while Randy was out of town working opening up the pool.  It's hot outside now!

Dan brought his bike over and was teaching Devyn to ride, I don't think she liked it but she gave it a shot.  

MOR/ryde

We stopped at MOR/ryde this afternoon to have our annual suspension system check and servicing.  All is well and we were on our way in less than an hour.  We were going to spend the night in their free lot with 50a power but they had several new fifth wheels there and the place was very busy.  We have stayed there a few times before and it's noisy, lots of trains.  We decided to spend the night in Bremen at Pla-Mor campground a few miles away.

We parked in the only site that had gravel, it's going to rain tonight and I don't want to be in wet grass.  It's only 50 degrees now and damp,ugh.  

And guess who we bumped into a few sites away......John & Glenda who were in town having some work done on both their new Elite Suite and F450.  Interesting how you bump into RV friends anywhere.

Headed to Onsted via Elkhart.

First stop was 308 miles on the back roads to Bowling Green, MO and the Cozy C Campground above.  The rain started as we finished hooking up, great timing.  We had leftover macaroni, cheese and ham for dinner.
Second night was 263 miles to Crawfordsville, IN and Sugar Creek campground below.  Soup supper because it's cold and damp.

Chanute visit that made Judy VERY happy

On April 30th we traveled with Tom & Heather to Chanute for service on our HitchHikers.  Their service was completed in one day so they headed to Michigan on May 3.  We have been traveling with them since leaving Gulf Shores, hope they enjoyed it!!  We did.  Here's what has Judy so happy..............into service we go.

Nothing like paying someone to make a big hole in your home.

Yup, she now has a washing/drying machine on board.  She's VERY happy!  It is small, will take longer to do the laundry but it's in the RV and she's loving it.
We were in service for 4 days spending 3 dreary nights in a motel but it was worth it.  We also had LED clearance lights installed, two tank valves replaced, two plastic water nipples replaced with brass and had NuWa look for two water exterior water leaks.  We did have fun enjoying Chanute with Tom & Heather (TCTom) and Roy & Laurie (Highway Ranger). We also met Ray & Cece (Ray & Cece) who are on the NuWa Owners Forum and we hadn't met them before.  Santa Fe Park is a cross roads for HitchHiker owners. 
Following the work completion we moved 25 miles north to Iola, KS to a campground, below, with full hookups so Judy can test the washer/dryer to make sure all is well.

Dinner was leftover pork, krout, and mashed taters.  It was good!
  

Poteau, OK and Hollister, MO

We arrived at Long Lake Resort on Monday the 25th for one night after a 217 mile tow.  We chose a pull through site as they have very narrow back in's, Tom & Heather are also here.  Here are our neighbors......

This is a very nice park off the beaten path so it's quite and dark at night; it would have been a good place to stay for a few days but Judy was anxious to get to the next stop.

Tom & Heather are in one site and we are beside them.  We're in Hollister, MO for 4 nights to visit Branson and Wes & Tonia. The afternoon we arrived we met at Branson Landing so Judy could see the water fountain display, have dinner and have Aunt Annie's pretzels.

Here's Tom & Heather, us, and Tonia & Wes the second day.  We took the Branson Scenic Railroad on a 40 mile round trip into Oklahoma. 

Ya think Judy's happy?  Me?  I always enjoy a train ride.

Tom & Heather are behind Judy.

Here's Wes, Tonia and daughter Jessica.

This picture is from the glass domed observation car.  No one stayed up there very long because the sun made it much too hot.

After the train ride we went to Hard Work U (College of the Ozarks) for lunch at their culinary arts program.  We always eat here once a visit, good chow and it's fancy. 

 AND.....I had to have a Hard Work U fruit cake.  Hey Clayton, you have one coming too!

One night at 2am the tornado sirens went off.  We saw many RVers walking toward the office so we we joined them in the shelter which was the storage barn for the lawn equipment, above is Tom & Heather with Shadow.  Judy and I and Patches are below.  No tornado but lots or wind and rain.

Every time we are in Branson we see Judy's favorite show, SIX. The brothers use no musical instruments, they make all the sounds themselves.

 OK.....I enjoy them too, we all did.

Salado and Caddo Mills, Texas

We left Ingram Saturday and made 164 miles to Union Grove COE (Corps of Engineers) park on a nice lake.  It was full for the weekend so I'm glad we had a reservation.  Tom and Heather are with us as we both have service appointments in Chanute, KS next week and we are working our way there.  The reason we came to Union Grove COE  was to see Haleigh and Dallas but they were sick so we missed them BUT we made it to Opa's Schnitzel Hut again.  We found this German restaurant last year and it's a jewel! The best German food we have found in 9 years of travel.  
OH, it was SO GOOD!

  

Judy had to have a shirt.

Here's Randy................

And here's his snowmobile replacement......

Nifty huh?  Nice of him to buy and garage it for me.

Jody sent us a new class picture of Dustin......

A great picture of Devyn & Molly.

On Sunday we towed 190 miles to Caddo Mills, TX and NE Dallas Campground for the night, that's Tom & Heather's rig on the left.  We arrived at 12:30 so had lots of time to relax and do a few chores.