Up at the crack of dawn, stops at the conveniently located dump on the way out of the campground (there’s one at the north equine camp as well), headed pretty much due east to catch the freeway as soon as possible, intermittent stops at BK, Tractor Supply and Walmart, and because they didn’t have a gas station there (the Sams Club did, but no diesel anyway), we stopped at a gas station just before getting back on the freeway. That turned out to be a mistake, as there was another truck stop at the exit where we got off the freeway, and their diesel was about 15 cents a gallon cheaper! Went straight to the camp, which also turned out to be a mistake, caused, once again, by misinformation provided by the main office of the Missouri DNR. I had called last week to confirm, again, whether there was water available at the campsites or not, and even though I was very specific, the girl I spoke to me assured me, three times, that there was a water spigot there. Of course, there wasn’t! So we had to go back to the gas station and fill up all our tanks, a process that took over an hour, making it after 5:00 by the time we got back to camp. We actually hooked the horses on the hitching rail before we went back for water, so at least they didn’t get thrown around in the trailer for that time. We finally got back and got set up. I put the horses on their anchors, because there is LOTS of grass for them to much on here, included some nice sections of clover, which they naturally devoured! Got the generator going, as well as the satellite dish and all other electronics, happy to see a good cell phone signal, though I’m not surprised being right off the freeway. That’s the other down side here, it’s a bit noisy from the traffic, and you have to park just so to get the RV level as most of the field area is kind of slope-y, but the upside, it’s free! Got everyone settled in, and had our usual travel day evening.
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