Tuesday June 17
Bye, pretty lake!
LESSONS LEARNED
- When reserving a COE park on a weekday, if there’s a pull-thru site right next to your back-in site, take it. My logic is typically to take the spot at the very end of a loop so that I have a way to walk Molly without walking past another campsite, but that logic can be carried to extremes. I think I got burned too many times in the state parks up in Pennsylvania and Maryland. But in that last campground there was a pull-thru site right next to ours and it wouldn’t have been any better to have one versus the other for dog walking. So in cases where they’re practically side-by-side, I need to go for convenience over location.
2.
Don’t buy the Better Oats instant blueberry
oatmeal; it’s too sweet.
3. Adding a bag of sauerkraut and some frozen green beans to amp up my vegetable intake is good. But maybe not Kimchi, or at least, not a great big jar of it. I got awfully tired of eating it every day.
4. Put away all stuff on my bedside table first thing in the morning.
5. US 75 thru Oklahoma isn’t all bad but it goes through a lot of small towns
6. Don’t stop at Love’s in Atoka. Too small and hard to get out of.
7. Always print a campsite map
8. When choosing overnight stops to keep our driving distances short, give a little attention to locations of diesel fuel truck stops. A 4:12 minute drive used during planning can turn into a 4:48 drive due to having to go out of the way to get fuel and then take little crappy roads to get back on the route. This wouldn’t have been a problem if I learn to keep all legs under three hours except the first and the last. Then an out-of-the-way fuel stop won’t ruin our day.
9. Lots of birds on the great plains in June. And ticks, too. But that’s the way of things.
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